About Island Press -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Whence Biodiversity? -- Forests Then and Now -- Shadows in the Forest -- The Myth of Heart's Content -- Part II: Ecological Mechanisms and Biotic Resources -- Internal Affairs: Patch and Disturbance Dynamics -- From Hero to Villain: Edge Effects -- Hazards of Fragmentation: Area and Isolation Effects -- Tracking Diversity: Biological Inventory, Research, and Monitoring -- Part III: Approaches to Forest Managment -- The Evolution of Forest Management -- Multiple Use on National Forest Lands -- What's New in Forest Management? -- Zoning for Diversity -- Part IV: Toward a New Diversity Policy (and Twenty-First Century Old Growth) -- Sources of a New Diversity Policy for the National Forests -- Case History: The Wisconsin National Forests -- Dominant-Use Zoning and Wildlands: Forestry for the Twenty- First Century -- First Postscript -- References -- Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Species List -- Index -- Island Press Board of Directors 1994.