African Rain Forest Ecology and Conservation
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An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Edited by William Weber, Lee J. T. White, Amy Vedder, and Lisa Naughton-Treves
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Written by conservation scientists and practitioners based in the African rain forest, the book offers a multidisciplinary perspective that integrates many biological and social sciences. Early chapters trace the forces--from paleoecological factors to recent human actions--that have shaped the African forest environment. The next chapters discuss the dominant biological patterns of species ranging from the distinctive elephants, gorillas, and okapi to the less well known birds, butterflies, and amphibians. Other chapters focus on how such different groups as hunter-gatherers, forest farmers, bushmeat hunters, recent immigrants, and commercial foresters have used the forests. Several authors stress the need for tighter links between research and conservation action. The final section draws lessons from the collective experience of those working in an Africa wracked by political strife and economic hardship.
"The thirty-two essays in African Rain Forest Ecology and Conservation make two important contributions. First, they cover a truly impressive amount of material on the moist tropical forests of werstern, central, eastern Africa, and Madagascar. Second, the authors represent a broad cross section of contemporary mainstream conservation, writing fromt he closely linked perspectives of academic research and applied conservation. . . . No one interested in the topic should begin working without consulting this volume." —Peter J. Rogers, African Studies Review
Publication Date: June 10, 2001
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