Agriculture and development transform forest ecosystems to human‐modified landscapes.
Decades of research in ecology have generated myriad concepts for the appropriate …

Old‐growth tropical forests are being extensively deforested and fragmented worldwide. Yet
forest recovery through succession has led to an expansion of secondary forests in human …

Summary The Brazilian Atlantic Forest hosts one of the world's most diverse and threatened
tropical forest biota. In many ways, its history of degradation describes the fate experienced …

Tropical forests are being deforested worldwide, and the remaining fragments are suffering
from biomass and biodiversity erosion. Quantifying this erosion is challenging because …

Land‐cover change and ecosystem degradation may lead to biotic homogenization, yet our
understanding of this phenomenon over large spatial scales and different biotic groups …

With accelerated land-use change throughout the tropics, an increasing proportion of global
biodiversity is located in human-modified landscapes. Understanding the relative effects of …

Community assembly arguably drives the provision of ecosystem services because they
critically depend on which and how species coexist. We examine conspicuous cases …

Habitat loss and fragmentation result in significant landscape changes that ultimately affect
plant diversity and add uncertainty to how natural areas will respond to future global change …

Anthropogenic disturbances affecting tropical forest reserves have been documented, but
their ecological long-term cumulative effects are poorly understood. Habitat fragmentation …

Forest fragmentation is considered by many to be a primary cause of the current biodiversity
crisis. The underlying mechanisms are poorly known, but a potentially important one is …