Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes of Southeastern Brazil
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Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes of Southeastern Brazil

  1. 366 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes of Southeastern Brazil

About this book

The state of São Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most densely populated and developed areas in South America. Such development is evident both in terms of industrialization and urbanization, as well as in agriculture, which is heavily based on sugar cane, Eucalyptus plantations and livestock. This intense land use has resulted in great alteration of the original land cover and fragmentation of natural ecosystems. For these reasons, it is almost a paradox that jaguar, a species that requires large areas of pristine forest to exist, is still found in some parts of the state of São Paulo. It is possible that wild animals could leave in coexistence with intense land use, or is it the case that such rare encounters with large wild animals in São Paulo will disappear in the near future?
All ecologists are aware of the problems of habitat changes caused by humans, but it was not until recent years that researchers started to consider that the land used for production could also serve as an important habitat for many different kinds of wild species. This book is about this new approach to conservation. It also highlights the important role that sciences could and should have in this discussion in order to better understand the problems and propose possible solutions.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter Open Poland
Year
2016
Topic
Biological Sciences
eBook ISBN
9783110480849
Subtopic
Ecology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. List of Contributors
  4. Part I: Human Dimensions
  5. 1 The Multiple Facets of Agricultural Landscapes
  6. 2 The Role of Family Farms in EnvironmentalConservation in Agricultural Landscapes
  7. 3 Agribusiness and Socioeconomic Drivers of LandCover Change in Brazil
  8. 4 Dealing with Fragmentation and Road Effectsin Highly Degraded and Heterogeneous Landscapes
  9. 5 Exploring Diversity of Soil Microorganisms:A Multidimensional Approach
  10. 6 The Value of Agricultural Landscape for TropicalTrees
  11. 7 Changes in Species and Genetic Diversity of Cropsin Agricultural Systems, with an Emphasis on theState of São Paulo
  12. 8 Biodiversity Conservation of Forests and theirEcological Restoration in Highly-modified Landscapes
  13. 9 Freshwater Turtles in Natural, Rural and UrbanEcosystems in São Paulo State, Southeastern Brazil
  14. 10 Fish Parasites and their Use as EnvironmentalResearch Indicators
  15. 11 Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) inAnthropogenic Environments: Challenges andConflicts
  16. 12 The Influence of Agricultural and ForestLandscapes on the Diversity of Lepidoptera
  17. 13 Stream Fish Diversity in an AgriculturalLandscape of Southeastern Brazil
  18. 14 Patterns of Leaf-litter Amphibian Diversity in aSilvicultural Landscape of Southeastern Brazil
  19. 15 Bird Diversity in Relation to Land Use inAgricultural Landscapes of Southeastern Brazil
  20. 16 Howler Monkeys in an Urban Brazilian Forest:Ecology and Daily Feeding Patterns
  21. 17 Wildlife and Landscape Geometry in SilviculturalLandscapes
  22. List of Figures
  23. List of Tables
  24. Index

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