Foreword
Thomas E. Lovejoy
Preface: A Crisis in the Making
William F. Laurence, Richard O. Bierregaard, Jr.
Sect. I: The Scale and Economics of Tropical Deforestation
1: Tropical Forest Disturbance, Disappearance, and Species Loss
T. C. Whitmore
2: The Role of Economic Factors in Tropical Deforestation
James R. Kahn, Judith A. McDonald.
Sect. II: Physical Processes and Edge Effects
3: Edge-Related Changes in Environment and Plant Responses Due to Forest Fragmentation in Central Amazonia
Valerie Kapos, Elisa Wandelli, Jose Luis Camargo et al.
4: Edge and Aspect Effects on the Microclimate of a Small Tropical Forest Remnant on the Atherton Tableland, Northeastern Australia
Stephen M. Turton, Heidi Jo Freiburger.
5: The Influence of Edge Effects and Forest Fragmentation of Leaf Litter Invertebrates in Central Amazonia
Raphael K. Didham
6: Hyper-Disturbed Parks: Edge Effects and the Ecology of Isolated Rainforest Reserved in Tropical Australia
William F. Laurance
Sect. III: Tropical Forest Faunas
7: Disturbance, Fragmentation, and the Dynamics of Diversity in Amazonian Forest Butterflies
Keith S. Brown, Jr., Roger W. Hutchings.
8: Phenetic Variation in Insular Populations of a Rainforest Centipede
John F. Weishampel, Herman H. Shugart, Walter E. Westman.
9: Fragmentation Effects on a Central Amazonian Frog Community: A Ten-Year Study
Mandy D. Tocher, Claude Gascon, Barbara L. Zimmerman.
10: Understory Birds and Dynamic Habitat Mosaics in Amazonian Rainforests
Richard O. Bierregaard, Jr., Philip C. Stouffer.
11: Avian Extinction and Persistance Mechanisms in Lowland Panama
Kathryn E. Sieving, James R. Karr.
12: Frugivorous Birds in Fragmented Neotropical Montane Forests: Landscape Pattern and Body Mass Distribution
Carla Restrep, Luis Miguel Renjifo, Paul Marples.
13: Structure and Conservation of Forest Avifauna in Isolated Rainforest Remnants in Tropical Australia
Neil H. Warburton
14: Biomass and Diversity of Small Mammals in Amazonian Forest Fragments
Jay R. Malcolm
15: Rapid Decline of Small Mammal Diversity in Monsoon Evergreen Forest Fragments in Thailand
Antony J. Lynam
16: Internal Fragmentation: The Effects of Roads, Highways, and Powerline Clearings on Movements and Mortality of Rainforest Vertebrates
Miriam Goosem
17: Transitory States in Relaxing Ecosystems of Land Bridge Islands
John Terborgh, Lawrence Lopez, Jose Tello et al.
Sect. IV: Plants and Plant - Animal Interactions
18: Tropical Four Disruption and Stochastic Biodiversity Losses
Mark Andersen, Alan Thornhill, Harold Koopowitz.
19: Regeneration of Large-Seeded Trees in Australian Rainforest Fragments: A Study of Higher-Order Interactions
Graham N. Harrington, Anthony K. Irvine, Francis H. J. Crome et al.
20: Dispersal and the Dynamics of Genetic Structure in Fragmented Tropical Tree Populations
John D. Nason, Preston R. Aldrich, J. L. Hamrick.
21: Plant Dispersal in Fragmented Landscapes: A Field Study of Woody Colonization in Rainforest Remnants of the Mascarene Archipelago
Christophe Thebaud, Dominique Strasberg.
22: Long-Term Survival in Tropical Forest Remnants in Singapore and Hong Kong
Richard T. Corlett, I. M. Turner.
Sect. V: Restoration and Management of Fragmented Landscapes
23: Dynamics and Restoration of Forest Fragments in the Brazilian Atlantic Moist Forest
Virgilio M. Viana, Andre A. J. Tabanez, Joao Luis F. Batista.
24: Rejoining Habitat Remnants: Restoring Degraded Rainforest Lands
David Lamb, John Parrotta, Rod Keenan et al.
25: Measuring Landscape Changes in Remnant Tropical Dry Forests
Elizabeth A. Kramer
26: Quantifying Habitat Fragmentation Due to Land Use Change in Amazonia
Virginia H. Dale, Scott M. Pear