An A mazonian rainforest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change

WF Laurance, JLC Camargo, PM Fearnside… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We synthesize findings from one of the world's largest and longest‐running experimental
investigations, the B iological D ynamics of F orest F ragments P roject (BDFFP). Spanning …

The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: a 32-year investigation

WF Laurance, JLC Camargo, RCC Luizão… - Biological …, 2011 - Elsevier
We synthesize findings to date from the world's largest and longest-running experimental
study of habitat fragmentation, located in central Amazonia. Over the past 32years …

The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: How much is left, and how is the remaining forest distributed? Implications for conservation

MC Ribeiro, JP Metzger, AC Martensen… - Biological …, 2009 - Elsevier
The neotropical Atlantic Forest supports one of the highest degrees of species richness and
rates of endemism on the planet, but has also undergone a huge forest loss. However, there …

Impacts of roads and linear clearings on tropical forests

WF Laurance, M Goosem, SGW Laurance - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2009 - cell.com
Linear infrastructure such as roads, highways, power lines and gas lines are omnipresent
features of human activity and are rapidly expanding in the tropics. Tropical species are …

The impacts of roads and other infrastructure on mammal and bird populations: a meta-analysis

A Benítez-López, R Alkemade, PA Verweij - Biological conservation, 2010 - Elsevier
Biodiversity is being lost at an increased rate as a result of human activities. One of the
major threats to biodiversity is infrastructural development. We used meta-analyses to study …

From roadkill to road ecology: A review of the ecological effects of roads

AW Coffin - Journal of transport Geography, 2007 - Elsevier
Transportation infrastructure affects the structure of ecosystems, the dynamics of ecosystem
function, and has direct effects on ecosystem components, including their species …

Beyond the fragmentation debate: a conceptual model to predict when habitat configuration really matters

MA Villard, JP Metzger - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Research addressing the effects of habitat fragmentation on species, assemblages or
ecosystems has been fraught with difficulties, from its conceptual foundation to statistical …

Birds in anthropogenic landscapes: the responses of ecological groups to forest loss in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

JC Morante-Filho, D Faria, E Mariano-Neto, J Rhodes - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Habitat loss is the dominant threat to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in terrestrial
environments. In this study, we used an a priori classification of bird species based on their …

Why do birds participate in mixed-species foraging flocks? A large-scale synthesis

H Sridhar, G Beauchamp, K Shanker - Animal Behaviour, 2009 - Elsevier
Mixed-species flocks of foraging birds have been documented from terrestrial habitats all
over the world and are thought to form for either improved feeding efficiency or better …

Impacts of roads and hunting on central African rainforest mammals

WF Laurance, BM Croes, L Tchignoumba… - Conservation …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Road expansion and associated increases in hunting pressure are a rapidly growing threat
to African tropical wildlife. In the rainforests of southern Gabon, we compared abundances of …