The BDFFP would become one of the most important studies of fragmentation in tropical forests because it is the only long running study with data before fragments were created with the original data being from the continuous forest ( Laurance et al.

Another distinct feature of the forests in the BDFFP is the canopy, which can reach from 30 to 37 meters with some emergents reaching up to 55 meters ( Bierregaard 2001 ).

What started out as a five-person initiative slowly gained momentum as funding for the BDFFP grew and became a successful midsize research project operated by a larger staff.

The BDFFP spans approximately 1, 000 km² of the Brazilian Amazon region located 70 km north of Manaus, Brazil in South America.

Over 30 years of research and data collection with the BDFFP experiment has led to many discoveries and important lessons for scientists, but has also faced many challenges, such as funding.

The SLOSS debate ensued as to the extent to which smaller reserves shared species with one another, leading to the development of nested subset theory by Bruce Patterson and Wirt Atmar in the 1980s and to the establishment of the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project ( BDFFP ) near Manaus, Brazil in 1979 by Thomas Lovejoy and Richard Bierregaard.

The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, commonly known as the BDFFP, was born out of the SLOSS ( single large or several small reserves of equal area ) debate in the mid-1970s ( Laurance et al.

These concepts have largely inspired the SLOSS ( single large or several small ) reserve size debate, which the Minimal Critical Size of Ecosystem Project ( now known as the BDFFP ) attempts to address.

Increasing and widespread habitat loss and fragmentation, along with the SLOSS debate, have led to the questions the BDFFP originally sought to answer.

Many studies in BDFFP also attempt to find ways to apply research to restoration, conservation and management practices of tropical forests.

There has been a broad scope of studies performed on the BDFFP site focusing on many elements of fragmentation effects on organisms and habitat conditions.

Some notable studies performed on the BDFFP site are summarized below.

The fundamental goals drawn from the BDFFP experiment are to preserve larger areas of land to ensure viable populations are maintained and to maintain the forests ’ natural ecological processes.

Since the late 1990s, colonization and hunting have emerged as direct threats to the BDFFP.

As the influx of humans continues into these lands, the conservation efforts of the BDFFP become increasingly important in order to prevent devastating effects on the surrounding forest ecosystems.

The Archbishop of Canterbury's role is strictly symbolic and unifying and the Communion's three international bodies are consultative and collaborative, their resolutions having no legal effect on the autonomous provinces of the Communion.

In jazz an unscored collaborative arrangement is called a " head arrangement " ( Randel 2002, p. 294 ; it is in the head of the musician ( s )).

As is usual with collaborative efforts in comic strips, his name was the only one credited — although, sensitive to his own experience working on Joe Palooka, Capp frequently drew attention to his assistants in interviews and publicity pieces.

This is a parallel and collaborative effort e. g. with research at the Princeton Sound Lab, the University of Cologne, and the Computational Arts Research Group at Queensland University of Technology.

HyperScope is perceived as the first step of a process designed to engage a wider community in a dialogue, on development of collaborative software and services, based on Engelbart's goals and research.

" As recent scholarship documents, the work is likely more collaborative than it has been given credit for in twentieth-century art history.

Debian is known for relatively strict adherence to the philosophies of Unix and free software as well as using collaborative software development and testing processes.

Some use the term dispute resolution to refer only to alternative dispute resolution ( ADR ), that is, extrajudicial processes such as arbitration, collaborative law, and mediation used to resolve conflict and potential conflict between and among individuals, business entities, governmental agencies, and ( in the public international law context ) states.

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search ( GIMPS ) is a collaborative project of volunteers who use freely available software to search for Mersenne prime numbers.

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

And the second course of action led to my going to Pakistan a month or so after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for the purpose of coordinating with the Pakistanis a joint response, the purpose of which would be to make the Soviets bleed for as much and as long as is possible ; and we engaged in that effort in a collaborative sense with the Saudis, the Egyptians, the British, the Chinese, and we started providing weapons to the Mujaheddin, from various sources again – for example, some Soviet arms from the Egyptians and the Chinese.

A collaborative project between the World Land Trust ( a UK based nonprofit environmental organisation ) and the Wildlife Trust of India that is creating protected wildlife corridors connecting National Parks and protected areas to others.

A responsive mediation process also is informal, flexible and collaborative.

His enthusiasm for world music traditions and preservation and collaborative efforts is comparable to that of guitarist Ry Cooder.

Oxfordians also claim that the fact that a number of the later plays ( such as Henry VIII, Macbeth, Timon of Athens and Pericles ) have been described as incomplete or collaborative is explained by these plays being either drafted earlier than conventionally believed, or simply revised / completed by others after Oxford's death.

The European Cultivated Potato Database ( ECPD ) is an online collaborative database of potato variety descriptions, updated and maintained by the Scottish Agricultural Science Agency within the framework of the European Cooperative Programme for Crop Genetic Resources Networks ( ECP / GR )— which is organised by the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute ( IPGRI ).

Remote pair programming, also known as virtual pair programming or distributed pair programming, is pair programming where the two programmers are in different locations, working via a collaborative real-time editor, shared desktop, or a remote pair programming IDE plugin.

Although each particular level is credited to one runner, the ideas and techniques used are iterative and collaborative in nature, with each runner picking up tips and ideas from the others, so that speeds keep improving beyond what was thought possible as the runs are further optimized and new tricks or routes are discovered.

Michel Bauwens identifies the emergence of the open software movement and peer-to-peer production as a new, alternative mode of production to the capitalist economy and centrally planned economy that is based on collaborative self-management, common ownership of resources, and the production of use-values through the free cooperation of producers who have access to distributed capital.

As of 2010, Gabay is recording and touring with Asian Dub Foundation, The RULES ( a collaborative band with DJ Krust ), and ongoing collaborations with Roni Size and Reprazent.

The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by the international standards body, the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ).

Theatre ( or theater ) is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place.

The mission of the University is to contribute, through collaborative research, capacity development, education and advisory services to efforts to resolve the pressing global problems of human survival, development and welfare that are the concern of the United Nations.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

While it is hazardous to project the trend of history, it seems clear that a genuine community is painfully emerging in the Western world, particularly among the countries of Western Europe.

Prof. C. H. Dodd, 76, a Congregational minister and a leading authority on the New Testament, is general director of the project and chairman of the New Testament panel.

RCA Victor has an ambitious and useful project in a stereo series called `` Adventures In Music '', which is an instructional record library for elementary schools.

The Peace Corps should not pay the expenses of a wife or family, unless the wife is also accepted for full-time Peace Corps work on the same project.

The books and records with respect to each project shall be maintained for the duration of the project, or until the expiration of three years after final disbursement for the project has been made by the United States, whichever is later.

`` Junior Showmanship is an extremely worthy project and should be earnestly encouraged ''!!

Allow project to stand for about five minutes ( if wooden press mold is a good antique, do not leave clay in too long as the dampness may cause mold to crack ).

It is a big project, not to be taken lightly.

Considering that the current school-age potential is 23 million youths, the project and its message on hunting and shooting education have many more to reach.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

In the present project the heating is by circulating hot water from Paragon boiler-burner units with summer-winter domestic hot water hookups.

For example, the officials of Poughkeepsie town ( township ) where the project is located think highly of it because it simplifies their snow clearing problem.

The continuity of the project is suggested by plans for an eventual third edition.

The project is currently supported by Harvard University.

Critical evaluation of all data compiled is not a primary aim of this project.

The sighting procedure includes the use of a fixture for the transit to project a beam of light, which is darkened by crossed hairs, on the accelerometer mirror.

A new project planned is the use of Bio-Dynamic Starter.

The Philadelphia Transportation Co. is investigating the part its organization played in reviewing the project.

The second agreement permits the authority to sell a 520-acre tract west of Stage 1 Residential to Philadelphia Builders Eastwick Corp., a firm composed of 10 Philadelphia area builders, which is interested in developing part of the project.

But the simple truth is that higher education has never really been an official American Catholic project ; ;

He is generally and initially suspicious of any federal project, unless it happens to benefit his Gulf Coast constituents.