Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate

RM Ewers, CDL Orme, WD Pearse, N Zulkifli… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Logged and disturbed forests are often viewed as degraded and depauperate environments
compared with primary forest. However, they are dynamic ecosystems that provide refugia …

Tropical forests post-logging are a persistent net carbon source to the atmosphere

MB Mills, Y Malhi, RM Ewers, LK Kho… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - National Acad Sciences
Logged and structurally degraded tropical forests are fast becoming one of the most
prevalent land-use types throughout the tropics and are routinely assumed to be a net …

A research agenda for microclimate ecology in human-modified tropical forests

T Jucker, TD Jackson, F Zellweger… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Logging and habitat fragmentation impact tropical forest ecosystems in numerous ways,
perhaps the most striking of which is by altering the temperature, humidity, and light …

Application of hyperspectral and deep learning in farmland soil microplastic detection

W Ai, G Chen, X Yue, J Wang - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The ecological environment is gravely threatened by the buildup of microplastics (MPs) in
soil. Currently, there are no established techniques for detecting MPs in soil. Some of the …

Logged tropical forests have amplified and diverse ecosystem energetics

Y Malhi, T Riutta, OR Wearn, NJ Deere, SL Mitchell… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Old-growth tropical forests are widely recognized as being immensely important for their
biodiversity and high biomass. Conversely, logged tropical forests are usually characterized …

Impacts of degradation on water, energy, and carbon cycling of the Amazon tropical forests

M Longo, S Saatchi, M Keller… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Selective logging, fragmentation, and understory fires directly degrade forest structure and
composition. However, studies addressing the effects of forest degradation on carbon, water …

The impact of logging on vertical canopy structure across a gradient of tropical forest degradation intensity in Borneo

DT Milodowski, DA Coomes, T Swinfield… - Journal of Applied …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Forest degradation through logging is pervasive throughout the world's tropical forests,
leading to changes in the three‐dimensional canopy structure that have profound …

Functional susceptibility of tropical forests to climate change

J Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, E Berenguer… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Tropical forests are some of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world, yet their
functioning is threatened by anthropogenic disturbances and climate change. Global actions …

Pantropical modelling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data

J Aguirre-Gutiérrez, S Rifai, A Shenkin, I Oliveras… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Tropical forest ecosystems are undergoing rapid transformation as a result of changing
environmental conditions and direct human impacts. However, we cannot adequately …