Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Rare Tree Species as Surrogates for Biodiversity in Conservation Decision-Making: What Are They and How to Select and Use Them?
(Everton A. Maciel and Fernando R. Martins, Graduate Program in Plant Biology, State University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 2. Sustainable Management of Biodiversity in Woody Ecosystems: Biotechnology and Bioprospecting of Native Species from Monte Desert, Patagonia
(Patricia Boeri, Lucrecia Piñuel, Daniela Dalzotto, Daniel Barrio, Maite Romero Alves, Marianelén Cedrés Gazo and Sandra Elizabeth Sharry, Laboratorio de Tecnología de Alimentos y Biotecnologia, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro-Sede Atlántica, Viedma, Río Negro, Argentina, and others)
Chapter 3. Forests and Brazilian Reptiles: Challenges for Conservation
(André Felipe Barreto-Lima and Melina Soledad Simoncini, André Felipe Barreto-Lima
Graduate Program in Ecology, University of Brasilia, Brasília, DF, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 4. Prioritization of Areas for Permanent Preservation for Forest Recovery Aiming Landscape Connectivity
(Emanuelle Brugnara, Vinícius de Freitas Silgueiro and Julio Cesar Wojciechowski, Instituto Centro de Vida, Alta Floresta, MT, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 5. Conservation of Aleppo Pine Forest for Post Flood and Fire Plantings
(Abdelaziz Ayari, Institut National de Recherche en Génie Rural, Eaux et Forêts, Department of Ecologie Forestière, Tunis, Tunisia)
Chapter 6. Linking Agroforestry to REDD+ Activities in the Amazon: Implications for Biodiversity and Carbon Conservation
(Pedro Manuel Villa, Sebastião Venâncio Martins, Silvio Nolasco de Oliveira Neto, Alice Cristina Rodrigues and Lucieta Guerreiro Martorano, Department of Botany, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 7. Forest Conservation and Its Challenges in Tropical Africa
(Tsegaye Tagesse Gatiso, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz, Leipzig, Germany)
Chapter 8. Large Dams in the Amazon: Disconnecting the Social and Natural System
(Elineide Eugênio Marques and Adriana Malvasio, Federal University of Tocantins, Palmas, TO, Brazil)
Chapter 9. Selection and Propagation of Native Tree Species for Improving Ecological Restoration
(Sebastián Pablo Galarco, Maite Romero Alves, Patricia Boeri, Luciano Roussy, Marina Adema, Blanca Villarreal, María Valentina Briones, María de los Ángeles Basiglio Cordal, Tatiana Cinquetti, Diego Iván Ramilo and Sandra Elizabeth Sharry, Wood Research Laboratory, School of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, National University of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and others)
Chapter 10. Concepts and Methods in Environmental Suitability Modeling, an Important Tool for Forest Conservation
(João Carlos Pires-Oliveira, Leandro José-Silva, Diogo Souza Bezerra da Rocha and Pedro V. Eisenlohr, Laboratory of Ecology, State University of Mato Grosso, Alta Floresta, MT, Brazil, and others)
Index