Habitat Loss, Fragmentation, and Degradation
Habitat Loss
- Primary drivers of habitat loss
- Box 9.1 Challenges & Opportunities: Land Sharing versus Land Sparing
- Box 9.2 Success Story: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Detroit
- Habitat loss by biome
- Box 9.3 Case in Point: The Unsustainable Use of Palm Oil
- Future development threats
Habitat Fragmentation
- Biological consequences of fragmentation
- Species-specific responses to fragmentation
Habitat Degradation
- Pollution
- Desertification
- Erosion and sedimentation
Metapopulations and Landscape Mosaics
- The “classic” metapopulation model
- Source-sink dynamics
- Conservation of metapopulations
- Box 9.4 Conservation in Practice: The Mainland-Island Metapopulation Model