Deforestation is occurring at an alarming rate in many parts of the world,
causing destruction of natural habitat and fragmentation of what remains.
Nowhere is this problem more pressing than in the Amazon rainforest, which is
rapidly vanishing in the face of enormous pressure from humans to exploit it.
This book presents the results of the longest-running and most comprehensive
study of forest fragmentation ever undertaken, the Biological Dynamics of Forest
Fragments Project (BDFFP) in central Amazonia, the only experimental study of
tropical forest fragmentation in which baseline data are available before
isolation from continuous forest took place.A joint project of Brazil's National
Institute for Research in Amazonia