Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests Book

	Introduction : what are emerging threats?	1
1	Impacts of global change on the structure, dynamics, and functioning of South American tropical forests	15
2	Climate change as a threat to the biodiversity of tropical rainforests in Australia	33
3	Dynamic climate and land-use change in the woodland and savanna ecosystems of subtropical Africa	53
4	Impacts of tropical deforestation on regional and global hydroclimatology	67
5	Fragments and fire : alarming synergisms among forest disturbance, local climate change, and burning in the Amazon	87
6	Synergistic effects of habitat disturbance and hunting in Amazonian forest fragments	105
7	Human encroachment and vegetation change in isolated forest reserves : the case of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda	127
8	Emerging infectious-disease threats to tropical forest ecosystems	149
9	Habitat disturbance and the proliferation of plant diseases	165
10	Ebola and commercial hunting : dim prospects for African apes	175
11	Current decline of the "dodo tree" : a case of broken-down interactions with extinct species or the result of new interactions with alien invaders?	199
12	Consequences of cryptic and recurring fire disturbances for ecosystem structure and biodiversity in Amazonian forests	225
13	Disperser-free tropical forests await an unhappy fate	241
14	Rainforest roads and the future of forest-dependent wildlife : a case study of understory birds	253
15	Emerging threats to birds in Brazilian Atlantic forests : the roles of forest loss and configuration in a severely fragmented ecosystem	269
16	Megadiversity in crisis : politics, policies, and governance in Indonesia's forests	291
17	Who should pay for tropical forest conservation, and how could the costs be met?	317
18	Conservation incentive agreements as an alternative to tropical forest exploitation	337
19	Mitigation of climatic change in the Amazon	353
20	Tourism and tropical rainforests : opportunity or threat?	377
21	Managing threats from bushmeat hunting in a timber concession in the Republic of Congo	393
22	Tropical forests : a protected-area strategy for the twenty-first century	417
23	Emerging threats to tropical forests : what we know and what we don't know	437