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Habitat Heterogeneity on a Forest-Savanna Ecotone in Noel Kempff Mercado National Park (Santa Cruz, Bolivia): Implications for the Long-Term Conservation of Biodiversity in a Changing Climate

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How Landscapes Change

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Noel Kempff National Park is a biological reserve in northeast Santa Cruz, Bolivia; the park is part of a regional setting that includes extractive forest reserves, cattle ranches, indigenous communities, and colonization zones. Future development and migration in the surrounding areas will have an effect on the conservation of the flora and fauna of this important protected area. The region incorporates five distinct ecosystems: humid upland forest, inundated and riparian forest, semi-deciduous and deciduous forest, upland savanna, and savanna wetland. The biodiversity of the park has been extensively studied with respect to species richness of individual habitats and the importance of habitat heterogeneity has been identified as the key factor in contributing to the overall levels of biodiversity (Killeen and Schulenberg 1998). There is no single ecosystem in Noel Kempff National Park that is “super diverse”; nonetheless, the total regional diversity (γ·diversity) is very high because all five ecosystems are distinct and are well represented on the landscape (Table 16.1).

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  1. Departments of Forest Science and Electrical Engineering, Oregon State University, 97331, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

    Gay A. Bradshaw

  2. Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ecología y Biodiversidad & Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 114-D, Santiago, Chile

    Pablo A. Marquet

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Killeen, T.J. et al. (2003). Habitat Heterogeneity on a Forest-Savanna Ecotone in Noel Kempff Mercado National Park (Santa Cruz, Bolivia): Implications for the Long-Term Conservation of Biodiversity in a Changing Climate. In: Bradshaw, G.A., Marquet, P.A. (eds) How Landscapes Change. Ecological Studies, vol 162. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05238-9_17

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