The Cutting Edge : Conserving Wildlife in Logged Tropical Forest

Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. An introduction to forestry-wildlife interactions in tropical forests: 1. Logging-wildlife issues in the tropics: an overview/Robert A. Fimbel, Alejandro Grajal and John G. Robinson. 2. Tropical forest management and wildlife: silvicultural effects on forest structure, fruit production and locomotion of arboreal animals/Francis E. Putz, Laura K. Sirot and Michelle A. Pinard. 3. Logging, seed dispersal by vertebrates, and natural regeneration of tropical timber trees/Patrick A. Jansen and Pieter A. Zuidema. II. Wildlife and Chainsaws: direct impacts of logging on wildlife: 4. Changes in primate communities following logging disturbance/Andrew J. Plumptre and Andrew Grieser Johns. 5. The effects of logging on tropical forest ungulates/Glyn Davies, Matt Heydon, Nigel Leader-Williams, John MacKinnon, and Helen Newing. 6. The effects of logging on nonvolant small mammal communities in neotropical rainforests/Jose Ochoa G. and Pascual J. Soriano. 7. The consequences of timber exploitation for Bat communities in tropical America/Pascual J. Soriano and Jose Ochoa G. 8. Tropical forestry and the conservation of neotropical birds/Douglas J. Mason and Jean-Marc Thiollay. 9. The effects of logging on birds in tropical forests of Indo-Australia/Mohamed Zakaria Bin Hussain and Charles M. Francis. 10. Bird communities in logged and unlogged African forests: lessons from Uganda and beyond/Andrew Plumptre, Christine Dranzoa and Isaiah Owiunji. 11. The effects of logging on reptiles and amphibians of tropical forests/Laurie J. Vitt and Janalee P. Caldwell. 12. The impacts of selective logging on tropical forest invertebrates/Jaboury Ghazoul and Jane Hill. 13. Soil fauna in managed forests: lessons from the Luquillo experimental forest, Puerto Rico/Gerardo R. Camilo and Xiaoming Zou. 14. The effects of logging on tropical river ecosystems/Catherine M. Pringle and Jonathan P. Benstead. III. Hunting: a major indirect impact of logging on game species: 15. Logging and hunting in community forests and corporate concessions: two contrasting case studies in Bolivia/Damian I. Rumiz, Daniel Guinart S., Luciano Solar R. and Jose C. Herrera F. 16. The interrelationships of commercial logging, hunting and wildlife in Sarawak: recommendations for forest management/Elizabeth L. Bennett and Melvin T. Gumal. 17. Defaunation, not deforestation: commercial logging and market hunting in Northern Congo/David S. Wilkie, J.G. Sidle, G.C. Boundzanga, P. Auzel and S. Blake. IV. Research to integrate natural forest management and wildlife conservation: 18. Natural forest management and biodiversity conservation: field study design and integration at the operational level/Andrew Grieser Johns. 19. Programs to assess the impacts of timber harvesting on tropical forest wildlife and their habitat/Robert A. Fimbel, Elizabeth L. Bennett and Claire Kremen. V. Forest management programs to conserve wildlife in production forest landscapes: 20. Where should natural forest management be promoted to conserve wildlife?/Peter C. Frumhoff and Elizabeth C. Losos. 21. Reducing the impacts of tropical forestry on wildlife/Douglas J. Mason and Francis E. Putz. 22. An evolutionary perspective on natural disturbance and logging: implications for forest management and habitat restoration/Colin A. Chapman and Robert A. Fimbel. 23. Protecting habitat elements and natural areas in the managed forest matrix/Bruce G. Marcot, R.E. Gullison and James R. Barborak. 24. Logging and wildlife research in Australasia: implications for tropical forest management/William F. Laurance. 25. Community-based timber production: a viable strategy for promoting wildlife conservation?/Nick Salafsky, Max Henderson and Mark Leighton. VI. Incentives for integrating natural forest management and wildlife conservation: 26. Tropical forest management certification and wildlife conservation/Richard Z. Donovan. 27. Can Forestry Carbon-Offset Projects play a significant role in conserving forest wildlife and their habitats?/Elizabeth Losos. 28. The economics of sustainable forest management and wildlife conservation in tropical forests/Neil Byron. 29. Rain forest logging and wildlife use in Bolivia: management and conservation in transition/Damian I. Rumiz and Fernando Aguliar. VII. Synopsis: 30. Logging and wildlife in the tropics: impacts and options for conservation/Robert A. Fimbel, Alejandro Grajal, and John G. Robinson, with input from all contributors to the volume. Literature cited. Index.

"The scale and intensity of industrial forestry in the tropics have grown at an unprecedented rate in the last decade. Directly and indirectly, logging has degraded wildlife populations and ecological functions in these forests, prompting a need to evaluate management practices and reconsider how best to preserve the integrity of these ecosystems.

This book examines in detail the interplay between timber-harvesting and wildlife, from invertebrates to large mammals, in hunted and protected landscapes. The book's thirty chapters synthesize our current knowledge of the direct and indirect impacts of timber harvesting practices practices on native forest fauna.

Collectively, the contributors identify existing technologies to minimize the impacts of timber-harvesting practices on wildlife, ranging from controlling access by hunters to adopting reduced-impact logging techniques and incorporating protected areas in the managed forest landscape. In addition, they discuss other components of sustainable forest management, including the training of tropical foresters, political reform, and applied research."