Impacts of logging roads on tropical forests

F Kleinschroth, JR Healey - Biotropica, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Road networks are expanding in tropical countries, increasing human access to remote
forests that act as refuges for biodiversity and provide globally important ecosystem services …

Road expansion and persistence in forests of the Congo Basin

F Kleinschroth, N Laporte, WF Laurance, SJ Goetz… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Roads facilitate development in remote forest regions, often with detrimental consequences
for ecosystems. In the Congo Basin, unpaved logging roads used by timber firms, as well as …

Status of road ecology research in Africa: do we understand the impacts of roads, and how to successfully mitigate them?

W Collinson, H Davies-Mostert, L Roxburgh… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Across Africa, transport infrastructure, including roads, is being built in over 30 planned
development corridors that are likely to have major impacts on remaining natural habitats …

Guns, germs, and trees determine density and distribution of gorillas and chimpanzees in Western Equatorial Africa

S Strindberg, F Maisels, EA Williamson, S Blake… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
We present a range-wide assessment of sympatric western lowland gorillas Gorilla gorilla
gorilla and central chimpanzees Pan troglodytes troglodytes using the largest survey data …

Tracking small-scale tropical forest disturbances: Fusing the Landsat and Sentinel-2 data record

Y Zhang, F Ling, X Wang, GM Foody, DS Boyd… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Information on forest disturbance is crucial for tropical forest management and
global carbon cycle analysis. The long-term collection of data from the Landsat missions …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring road development in Congo Basin forests with multi-sensor satellite imagery and deep learning

B Slagter, K Fesenmyer, M Hethcoat, E Belair… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Road development has affected many remote tropical forests around the world and has
accelerated human-induced deforestation, forest degradation and biodiversity loss. The …

Assessing the uneven global distribution of readership, submissions and publications in applied ecology: Obvious problems without obvious solutions

MA Nuñez, J Barlow, M Cadotte, K Lucas, E Newton… - 2019 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
What do Colombia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea have in common? Not only are they
among the most biodiverse countries in the world, they also face a suite of environmental …

Do forest-management plans and FSC certification help avoid deforestation in the Congo Basin?

I Tritsch, G Le Velly, B Mertens, P Meyfroidt… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
To allow for the production of timber while preserving conservation values, forestry
regulations in the Congo Basin have made Forest Management Plans (FMP) mandatory in …

Are Odonata communities impacted by conventional or reduced impact logging?

LB Calvão, DS Nogueira, LF de Assis Montag… - Forest Ecology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Timber harvest is a prevailing economic activity in Amazonia, which contributes to forest
degradation and biodiversity loss. However, Reduced-impact logging has been used to …

Towards the use of satellite-based tropical forest disturbance alerts to assess selective logging intensities

AJ Welsink, J Reiche, V De Sy, S Carter… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Illegal logging is an important driver of tropical forest loss. A wide range of organizations and
interested parties wish to track selective logging activities and verify logging intensities as …