Recent decades have seen unprecedented growth in the scale and intensity of industrial forestry. Directly and indirectly, it has degraded the wildlife and ecological integrity of these tropical forests, prompting a need to evaluate the impact of current forest management practices and reconsider how best to preserve the integrity of the biosphere.
Synthesizing the body of knowledge of leading scientists and professionals in tropical forest ecology and management, this book's thirty chapters examine in detail the interplay between timber harvesting and wildlife, from hunted and protected habitats to invertebrates and large mammal species.
Collectively, the contributors suggest that better management is pivotal to the maintenance of the tropics' valuable biodiversity, arguing that we must realize that tropical forests harbor the majority (perhaps 70 to 80 percent) of the world's animal species. Further, they suggest modifications to existing practices that can ensure a better future for our valuable resources.
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO FORESTRY-WILDLIFE INTERACTIONS IN TROPICAL FORESTS
- Chapter 1: LOGGING-WILDLIFE ISSUES IN THE TROPICS: An Overview, Robert A. Fimbel, Alejandro Grajal, and John G. Robinson
- Chapter 2: TROPICAL FOREST MANAGEMENT AND WILDLIFE: Silvicultural Effects on Forest Structure, Fruit Production, and Locomotion of Arboreal Animals, Francis E. Putz, Laura K. Sirot, and Michelle A. Pinard
- Chapter 3: LOGGING, SEED DISPERSAL BY VERTEBRATES, AND NATURAL REGENERATION OF TROPICAL TIMBER TREES, Patrick A. Jansen and Pieter A. Zuidema
- Part II: WILDLIFE AND CHAINSAWS: DIRECT IMPACTS OF LOGGING ON WILDLIFE
- Chapter 4: CHANGES IN PRIMATE COMMUNITIES FOLLOWING LOGGING DISTURBANCE, Andrew J. Plumptre and Andrew Grieser Johns
- Chapter 5: THE EFFECTS OF LOGGING ON TROPICAL FOREST UNGULATES, Glyn Davies, Matt Heydon, Nigel Leader-Williams, John MacKinnon, and Helen Newing
- Chapter 6: THE EFFECTS OF LOGGING ON NONVOLANT SMALL MAMMAL COMMUNITIES IN NEOTROPICAL RAIN FORESTS, José Ochoa G. and Pascual J. Soriano
- Chapter 7: THE CONSEQUENCES OF TIMBER EXPLOITATION FOR BAT COMMUNITIES IN TROPICAL AMERICA, Pascual J. Soriano and José Ochoa G.
- Chapter 8: TROPICAL FORESTRY AND THE CONSERVATION OF NEOTROPICAL BIRDS, Douglas J. Mason and Jean-Marc Thiollay
- Chapter 9: THE EFFECTS OF LOGGING ON BIRDS IN TROPICAL FORESTS OF INDO-AUSTRALIA, Mohamed Zakaria Bin Hussin and Charles M. Francis
- Chapter 10: BIRD COMMUNITIES IN LOGGED AND UNLOGGED AFRICAN FORESTS: Lessons from Uganda and Beyond, Andrew Plumptre, Christine Dranzoa, and Isaiah Owiunji
- Chapter 11: THE EFFECTS OF LOGGING ON REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS OF TROPICAL FORESTS, Laurie J. Vitt and Janalee P. Caldwell
- Chapter 12: THE IMPACTS OF SELECTIVE LOGGING ON TROPICAL FOREST INVERTEBRATES, Jaboury Ghazoul and Jane Hill
- Chapter 13: SOIL FAUNA IN MANAGED FORESTS, Lessons from the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico, Gerardo R. Camilo and Xiaoming Zou
- Chapter 14: THE EFFECTS OF LOGGING ON TROPICAL RIVER ECOSYSTEMS, Catherine M. Pringle and Jonathan P. Benstead
- Part III: HUNTING: A MAJOR INDIRECT IMPACT OF LOGGING ON GAME SPECIES
- Chapter 15: LOGGING AND HUNTING IN COMMUNITY FORESTS AND CORPORATE CONCESSIONS: Two Contrasting Case Studies in Bolivia, Damián I. Rumiz, Daniel Guinart S., Luciano Solar R., and José C. Herrera F.
- Chapter 16: THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS OF COMMERCIAL LOGGING, HUNTING, AND WILDLIFE IN SARAWAK: Recommendations for Forest Management, Elizabeth L. Bennett and Melvin T. Gumal
- Chapter 17: DEFAUNATION, NOT DEFORESTATION: Commercial Logging and Market Hunting in Northern Congo, David S. Wilkie, J. G. Sidle, G. C. Boundzanga, P. Auzel, and S. Blake
- Part IV: RESEARCH TO INTEGRATE NATURAL FOREST MANAGEMENT AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
- Chapter 18: NATURAL FOREST MANAGEMENT AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION: Field Study Design and Integration at the Operational Level, Andrew Grieser Johns
- Chapter 19: PROGRAMS TO ASSESS THE IMPACTS OF TIMBER HARVESTING ON TROPICAL FOREST WILDLIFE AND THEIR HABITAT, Robert A. Fimbel, Elizabeth L. Bennett, and Claire Kremen
- Part V: FOREST MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS TO CONSERVE WILDLIFE INPRODUCTION FOREST LANDSCAPES
- Chapter 20: WHERE SHOULD NATURAL FOREST MANAGEMENT BE PROMOTED TO CONSERVE WILDLIFE?, Peter C. Frumhoff and Elizabeth C. Losos
- Chapter 21: REDUCING THE IMPACTS OF TROPICAL FORESTRY ON WILDLIFE, Douglas J. Mason and Francis E. Putz
- Chapter 22: AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON NATURAL DISTURBANCE AND LOGGING: Implications for Forest Management and Habitat Restoration, Colin A. Chapman and Robert A. Fimbel
- Chapter 23: PROTECTING HABITAT ELEMENTS AND NATURAL AREAS IN THE MANAGED FOREST MATRIX, Bruce G. Marcot, R. E. Gullison, and James R. Barborak
- Chapter 24: LOGGING AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH IN AUSTRALASIA: Implications for Tropical Forest Management, William F. Laurance
- Chapter 25: COMMUNITY-BASED TIMBER PRODUCTION: A Viable Strategy for Promoting Wildlife Conservation?, Nick Salafsky, Max Henderson, and Mark Leighton
- Part VI: INCENTIVES FOR INTEGRATING NATURAL FOREST MANAGEMENT AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
- Chapter 26: TROPICAL FOREST MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATION AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION, Richard Z. Donovan
- Chapter 27: CAN FORESTRY CARBON-OFFSET PROJECTS PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN CONSERVING FOREST WILDLIFE AND THEIR HABITATS?, Elizabeth Losos
- Chapter 28: THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION IN TROPICAL FORESTS, Neil Byron
- Chapter 29: RAIN FOREST LOGGING AND WILDLIFE USE IN BOLIVIA: Management and Conservation in Transition, Damián I. Rumiz and Fernando Aguilar
- Part VII: SYNOPSIS
- Chapter 30: LOGGING AND WILDLIFE IN THE TROPICS: Impacts and Options for Conservation, Robert A. Fimbel, Alejandro Grajal, John G. Robinson, with input from all contributors to the volume
- Literature Cited
- Index
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