The majority of the world population is now inhabiting urban areas, and with staggering
population growth, urbanization is also increasing. While the work studying the effects of …

Twenty years ago, we published an assessment of the threats facing primates and with the
passing of two decades, we re‐evaluate identified threats, consider emerging pressures …

Southeast Asia experiences one of the highest rates of deforestation in the tropics due to
agricultural expansion, logging, habitat fragmentation and urbanization, which are expected …

Protected areas (PAs) are our principal conservation strategy and are evolving rapidly, but
we know little about the real-world management and governance of new forms. We review …

Rapid human-induced conversion and degradation of natural habitats has severely altered
patterns of species occupancy and population viability. Primates are highly vulnerable to …

Indian Himalayan basins are earmarked for widespread dam building, but aggregate effects
of these dams on terrestrial ecosystems are unknown. We mapped distribution of 292 dams …

Tropical forests exert a more profound influence on weather patterns, freshwater, natural
disasters, biodiversity, food, and human health–both in the countries where forests are found …

The fate of much of the world's terrestrial biodiversity is linked to the management of human-
modified forest landscapes in the humid tropics. This Special Issue presents the first pan …

As the influence of climate change on tropical forests becomes apparent, more studies are
needed to understand how changes in climatic variables such as rainfall are likely to affect …

Land‐use change is the most important driver of biodiversity loss worldwide and particularly
so in the tropics, where natural habitats are transformed into large‐scale monocultures or …