This book is intended to provide an overview for the identification and establishment of biodiversity islands. It presents examples and case studies where the biodiversity islands approach is being used in a variety of locations and contexts worldwide. It will contribute to design parameters on appropriate sizing and spatial distribution of biodiversity islands in order to be effective in conservation and regeneration across the landscape, using integrated landscape management approaches. This book is essential given the current worldwide trend of habitat destruction and the need to preserve biodiversity and its values.

The chapters are organized in five sections. The first section provides the introduction. Section 2,3 and 4 discuss the challenges and alternatives of establishment and management, case studies across the globe, safeguarding of the environmental, economic, and social benefits, and the final section offers a conclusion.

The contributing authors present views from the academic, the practitioner and the policymaker perspectives, offering alternatives and suggestions for promoting strategies that support biodiversity conservation through intentionally designed frameworks for sustainable forest landscapes.

Readers will discover suggestions and concrete examples that can be used by a variety of stakeholders in various settings throughout the world.

This book is useful to researchers, farmers, foresters, landowners, land managers, city planners, and policy makers alike. 

Part I:    Introduction

Chapter 1. Introduction. Biodiversity Islands: Strategies for Conservation in Human Dominated Environments
Part II:  Biodiversity islands establishment and management: challenges and alternatives
Chapter 2. The Importance of Small Rainforest Patches for Biodiversity Conservation: A Multi-Taxonomic Assessment
Chapter 3. Regenerative Agriculture as Biodiversity Islands
Chapter 4. Functions of Agroforestry Systems as Biodiversity Islands in Productive Landscapes
Chapter 5. Biodiversity Islands: The Role of Native Tree Islands within Silvopastoral Systems in a Neotropical Region
Chapter 6. Riparian Forests: Longitudinal Biodiversity Islands in Agricultural Landscapes
Chapter 7. Conservation and Registration of Seed Sources in Reserve Remnants in the Province of Misiones, Argentina
Section III: Biodiversity islands across the globe: case studies
Chapter 8. Island of Forests Among Savannahs: Key Elements for Conservation and Production in the Paraguayan Humid Chaco
Chapter 9.   Biodiversity Islands and Dominant Species in Agricultural Landscapes of the South Western Amazon, Perú
Chapter 10. The Monteverde Cloud Forest: Evolution of a Biodiversity Island in Costa Rica
Chapter 11. A Highly Productive Biodiversity Island within a Monoculture Landscape: El Hatico Nature Reserve (Valle Del Cauca, Colombia)
Chapter 12. Hacienda Pinzacuá: An Example of Regenerative Agriculture Amidst a Transformed Landscape in the Colombian Andes
Chapter 13. Islands of Trees in Long-Fragmented Landscapes in Great Britain
Chapter 14. Natural Landscape of the Pampa Region in Santa Fe Province, Argentina: Environmental Resilience and Opportunity for Changing the Agri-Food Paradigm
Chapter 15. Residential Garden Design for Urban Biodiversity Conservation: Experience from Panamá City, Panama
Chapter 16. Biodiversity Islands at the World's Southernmost City: Plant, Bird and Insect Conservation in Urban Forests and Peatlands of Ushuaia, Argentina
Chapter 17. Paradise Lot: A Temperate-Climate Urban Agroforestry Biodiversity Island
Chapter 18.         Contribution to the Domestication and Conservation of the Genetic Diversity of Two Native Multipurpose Species in the Yabotí Biosphere Reserve, Misiones, Argentina
Part IV:                Safeguarding the environmental, economic, and social benefits of biodiversity islands
Chapter 19. How Community-Led Action Can Advance the Development of Biodiversity Islands
Chapter 20. Priorities, Perspectives and Use of a Community Forest by Surrounding Residents in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico: Protecting the Forest for its Services
Chapter 21. Sacred Church Forests in Northern Ethiopia: Biodiversity and Cultural Islands
Chapter 22. Beyond the Island: Integrated Approaches to Conserving Biodiversity Islands with Local Communities
Chapter 23. Agroecology and Forest Conservation in Three Types of Land Reform Communities in the Cacao Region of Bahia, Brazil
Chapter 24. Preserving Biodiversity in Appalachian Mixed Mesophytic Forest through the Permit-Based Harvest of Ginseng and Other Forest Botanicals
Chapter 25. Farmer Perceptions of Tropical Dry Forest Restoration Practices on the Azuero Peninsula of Panama - Implications for Increasing Biodiversity in a Human-Dominated Landscape
Chapter 26. Safeguarding Biodiversity Islands in Northern Ethiopia Amidst Political Change
Part V: Chapter 27. Conclusions: Lessons Learned and Pending Challenges.<p></p>