The breakdown of ecosystem functionality driven by deforestation in a global biodiversity hotspot

D Faria, JC Morante-Filho, J Baumgarten… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
The pace of deforestation in tropical forests has achieved unprecedented rates, requiring
effective and achievable conservation mitigations that are also easily understood by society …

Forest fragmentation in China and its effect on biodiversity

J Liu, DA Coomes, L Gibson, G Hu, J Liu… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐use change is fragmenting natural ecosystems, with major consequences for
biodiversity. This paper reviews fragmentation trends–historical and current–in China, the …

Accelerated forest fragmentation leads to critical increase in tropical forest edge area

R Fischer, F Taubert, MS Müller, J Groeneveld… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Large areas of tropical forests have been lost through deforestation, resulting in fragmented
forest landscapes. However, the dynamics of forest fragmentation are still unknown …

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

MB Mills, Y Malhi, RM Ewers, LK Kho, YA Teh… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
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 …

Limits to the accurate and generalizable use of soundscapes to monitor biodiversity

SS Sethi, A Bick, RM Ewers, H Klinck… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Although eco-acoustic monitoring has the potential to deliver biodiversity insight on vast
scales, existing analytical approaches behave unpredictably across studies. We collated …

Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth's ecosystems

NM Haddad, LA Brudvig, J Clobert, KF Davies… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
We conducted an analysis of global forest cover to reveal that 70% of remaining forest is
within 1 km of the forest's edge, subject to the degrading effects of fragmentation. A synthesis …

[HTML][HTML] Forests and their canopies: achievements and horizons in canopy science

A Nakamura, RL Kitching, M Cao, TJ Creedy… - Trends in ecology & …, 2017 - cell.com
Forest canopies are dynamic interfaces between organisms and atmosphere, providing
buffered microclimates and complex microhabitats. Canopies form vertically stratified …

[HTML][HTML] The relationship between leaf area index and microclimate in tropical forest and oil palm plantation: Forest disturbance drives changes in microclimate

SR Hardwick, R Toumi, M Pfeifer, EC Turner… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2015 - Elsevier
Land use change is a major threat to biodiversity. One mechanism by which land use
change influences biodiversity and ecological processes is through changes in the local …

Characterizing soundscapes across diverse ecosystems using a universal acoustic feature set

SS Sethi, NS Jones, BD Fulcher, L Picinali… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Natural habitats are being impacted by human pressures at an alarming rate. Monitoring
these ecosystem-level changes often requires labor-intensive surveys that are unable to …

Canopy structure and topography jointly constrain the microclimate of human‐modified tropical landscapes

T Jucker, SR Hardwick, S Both, DMO Elias… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Local‐scale microclimatic conditions in forest understoreys play a key role in sha** the
composition, diversity and function of these ecosystems. Consequently, understanding what …