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An Agenda for Conservation Research and Its Application, with A Case-study from Amazonian Ecuador

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Peter B. Pearman
Peter B. Pearman
Affiliation:
Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305–5020, USA, and Fundación Jatun Sacha, Edificio del Herbario Nacional, Avenida Rio Coca 1734 e Isla Fernandina, Casilla 17–12–867, Quito, Ecuador.
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The watershed of the Upper Napo River (UNR), in the western portion of Napo Province in Amazonian Ecuador, holds one of the most species-rich tropical forests known on Earth. It is an area in which agricultural development and associated forest destruction are at loggerheads with conservation of biodiversity. This essay briefly describes the major factors that influence and threaten biodiversity in the UNR watershed.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , Spring 1995 , pp. 39 - 43
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1995

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