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Paperback. The Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual is one of the last intact mountainous regions in Ecuador. In October 2008 scientists from Ecuador, Peru, and the US conducted a rapid biological inventory and a social inventory to assess the region's suitability for protection as a municipal reserve. This book offers full and abstracted results of the fieldwork. Editor(s): Vriesendorp, Corine; Alverson, William S.; del Campo, Alvaro; Stotz, Douglas F.; Moskovits, Debra K.; Caceres, Segundo Fuentes; Tapia, Byron Coronel; Anderson, Elizabeth P. Series: Field Museum - Rapid Biological and Social Inventories. Num Pages: 318 pages, 20 colour plates, 4 maps, 8 graphs, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; RNCB; RNKH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 276 x 213 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1021.
The remote, rugged Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual is one of the last intact mountainous regions in Ecuador and serves as the most important remaining refuge for endangered, range-restricted flora and fauna of the Ecuadorian Andes. In October 2008 scientists from Ecuador, Peru, and the United States conducted a rapid biological inventory and a rapid social inventory to assess the region's suitability for protection as a municipal reserve. Working closely with local communities and indigenous Cofan, whose ancestral territory abuts the proposed reserve to the south, the teams surveyed the hydrology, geology, soils, vegetation and flora, fishes, amphibians and reptiles, birds, mammals, archaeology, ... Read more
The remote, rugged Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual is one of the last intact mountainous regions in Ecuador and serves as the most important remaining refuge for endangered, range-restricted flora and fauna of the Ecuadorian Andes. In October 2008 scientists from Ecuador, Peru, and the United States conducted a rapid biological inventory and a rapid social inventory to assess the region's suitability for protection as a municipal reserve. Working closely with local communities and indigenous Cofan, whose ancestral territory abuts the proposed reserve to the south, the teams surveyed the hydrology, geology, soils, vegetation and flora, fishes, amphibians and reptiles, birds, mammals, archaeology, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Field Museum of Natural History,U.S. United States
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
Series
Field Museum - Rapid Biological and Social Inventories
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
Chicago, IL, United States
ISBN
9780914868736
SKU
V9780914868736
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Corine Vriesendorp
Corine Vriesendorp is the director of the Rapid Inventories and Conservation Tools Program of Environment, Culture, and Conservation (ECCo) at the Field Museum. William S. Alverson is a senior conservation ecologist/botanist with ECCo. Alvaro del Campo is the international field programs manager with ECCo. Douglas F. Stotz is a senior conservation ecologist/ornithologist with ECCo. Debra K. Moskovits is the senior ... Read more
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