Biological Conservation

Editor-in-Chief: R.B. Primack Dept. of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA, Editors: M. Burgman School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia, R. Corlett Dept. of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS), 14 Science Drive 4, 117543 Singapore, M.J. Costello Leigh Marine Lab., PO Box 349, University of Auckland, 0941 Warkworth, New Zealand, M. Galetti Dept. de Ecologia, CP 199, Lab. de Biologia da Conservacão, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP), 13506-900 Rio Claro, SP, Brazil, L.P. Koh , J. Lockwood Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University at New Brunswick, 14 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08902, USA, D. Oro CSIC- Universidad Illes Balears, Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados, carrer Miquel Marques, 21, 07190 Esporles, Spain, R. Pakeman Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Macaulay Drive, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, UK, A.S. Pullin School of Environment & Natural Resources, University of Wales, School Of Biological Sciences Deiniol Road, Bangor, LL57 2UW, UK, Book Review Editor: D. Aplin Botanical Values, 6 Greenford View; Higher Frome Vauchurch, Dorchester, DT2 0AS, UK, Editorial Board: B.W. Brook University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia, T. Caro University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA, R. Cereghino Université de Toulouse I, Toulouse cedex 9, France, J.L. Craig University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, W. Darwall International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Cambridge, England, UK, M. Fischer Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland, D.O. Fisher University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia, Carlos Roberto Fonseca Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil, K.J. Gaston University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, England, UK, A.B. Gill Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford, England, UK, L. Gustafsson , F. Huettmann University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA, J.M. Iriondo Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Mostoles, Madrid, Spain, K. Kirby English Nature, Peterborough, UK, W.F. Laurance Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Manaus, Brazil, J.-D. Lebreton Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Montpellier Cedex 5, France, D.B. Lindenmayer Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, ACT, Australia, K.R. Lips University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, R.D. Loyola Uniersidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, R. Marrs Applied Vegetation Dynamics Lab., Liverpool, UK, E. McDonald-Madden University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia, J.P. Metzger Universidade de São Paulo, SAO PAULO, Brazil, A. Moilanen University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, P.B. Moyle University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA, T.R. New La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia, J. Pollock University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, P. Poschlod Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, D.A. Saunders Weetangera, ACT, Australia, M. Schwartz University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA, C. Sekercioglu University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, T. Sparks Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon, UK, B. Söderström Sveriges Lantbruks Universitet (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden, A. Taylor Monash University, Monash, VIC, Australia, S. Waldren Trinity College, Dublin 6, Ireland, P. Watts University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, J. Wielgus World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, USA, A. Young CSIRO (The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization), Canberra, Australia