Habitat Fragmentation and Landscape Change

Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
-Why This Book Was Written: ""Disentangling"" Habitat Fragmentation
-The Scope of This Book: Definitions and Key Themes
-The Structure of This Book
-How to Read This Book
-Further Reading
 
PART I. Landscape Change: An Overview
Chapter 2: How Landscapes Change
-Typical Patterns of Landscape Change
-The Nonrandom Patterns of Landscape Change and Vegetation Cover
-Dynamism in the Patterns of Vegetation Cover and Landscape Change
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading
Chapter 3: How Landscape Change Affects Organisms: A Conceptual Framework
-Processes Affecting the Distribution of Individual Species
-Pattern-Based Landscape Models
-The Link between Single Species and Multiple Species
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading
 
PART II. The Species Perspective: Key Processes Affecting Individual Species
Chapter 4. Habitat Loss
-Clearly Defining Habitat as a Prelude to Understanding Habitat Loss
-Habitat Loss is a Deterministic Process
-Habitat Loss as a Temporal Phenomenon
-Habitat Loss and Other Threatening Processes
-Caveats
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading
Chapter 5. Habitat Degredation
-Case Studies of the Effects of Habitat Degredation
-Chronic Degredation and Extinction Debts
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading
Chapter 6. Habitat Subdivision and Habitat Isolation
-Scales of Habitat Isolation
-What Represents Isolation?
-Confounding of Habitat Loss and Habitat Isolation
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading
Chapter 7. Changes in the Behavior, Biology, and Interactions of Species
-Altered Behavior and Biology
-Altered Species Interactions
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading
Chapter 8. Synthesis: Threatening Processes for Species in Modified Landscapes
-Threatening Process and Their Interactions
-Which Species are Extinction Prone?
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading
 
PART III. The Human Perspective: Landscape Patterns and Species Assemblages
Chapter 9. Land Cover Change and Patch Sizes
-Landscape Modification, Loss of Native Vegetation Cover, and Species Loss
-Vegetation Loss, Remaining Patch Size, and Species Richness
-Mechanisms Underlying Species-Area Relationships
-Equations for Species-Area Relationships
-Caveats for Species-Area Relationships
-Large Patches and Other Conservation Strategies
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading
Chapter 10. Deterioration of Vegetation and the Physical Environment
-Deterioration of the Physical Environment Due to Grazing and Pastoralism
-Deterioration of the Physical Environment Due to Forestry
-Deterioration of the Physical Environment Due to Firewood and Fuelwood Collection
-Interactions with Other Processes Associated with Landscape Alteration
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading
Chapter 11. Edge Effects
-Types of Edges and Edge Effects
-Variation in Edge Effects
-Edge Sensitivity and Extinction Proneness
-Caveats
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading
Chapter 12. Landscape Connectivity
-Landscape Connectivity and Other Connectivity Concepts
-Quantifying Landscape Connectivity
-Negative Effects of Reduced Landscape Connectivity
-Features Contributing to Landscape Connectivity
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading
Chapter 13. Nestedness and Community Assembly
-Nested Subset Theory
-Assembly Rules
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading
Chapter 14. The Matrix and Landscape Heterogeneity
-Ecological Roles of the Matrix
-Landscape Heterogeneity
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading
Chapter 15. Synthesis: Cascading Effects of Landscape Change
-Cascading Effects of Landscape Change
-Why Avoiding Regime Shifts is Important
-Other Regime Shifts
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading
 
PART IV. Studying Species and Assemblages in Modified Landscapes
Chapter 16. Field-Based Approaches to Studying Species and Assemblages in Modified Landscapes
-Process-Oriented Approaches for Single Species
-Why Field Studies in Modified Landscapes Are Difficult
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading
Chapter 17. Desktop Approaches to Studying Species and Assemblages in Modified Landscapes
-Models and Modeling
-Landscape Indices
-Reviews
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading
 
PART V. Mitigating the Negative Effects of Landscape Change on Species and Assemblages
Chapter 18. Managing Landscape Pattern to Mitigate the Decline of Species and Assemblages
-Strategy 1: Maintain and/or Restore Large and Structurally Complex Patches of Native Vegetation
-Strategy 2: Maintain and/or Restore a Matrix that is Structurally Similar to Native Vegetation
-Strategy 3: Maintain and/or Restore Buffers around Sensitive Areas'
-Strategy 4: Maintain and/or Restore Corridors and Stepping Stones
-Strategy 5: Maintain and/or Restore Landscape Heterogeneity and Capture Environmental Gradients
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading
Chapter 19. Managing Individual Species and Ecological Processes to Mitigate the Decline of Species and Assemblages
-Strategy 1: Maintain Key Species Interactions and Functional Diversity
-Strategy 2: Maintain and Apply Appropriate Disturbance Regimes
-Strategy 3: Maintain Species of Particular Concern
-Strategy 4: Control Aggressive, Overadundant, and Invasive Species
-Strategy 5: Minimize Ecosystem-Specific Threatening Processes
-Considering Ecosystem Trajectories
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading
Chapter 20. Guiding Principles for Mitigating the Decline of Species and Assemblages of Species
-Guiding Principles that Consider Patterns and Principles
-Putting It All Together: A Case Study from South America
-Beyond Science: Mitigating Landscape Change in the Real World
-Summary
-Links to Other Chapters
-Further Reading