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 …

Huge tracts of tropical forest are selectively logged. Meanwhile, emerging global agendas
are providing unprecedented incentives for large‐scale restoration within human‐impacted …

In this study, the recently launched Sentinel-2 (S2) optical satellite and the active radar
Sentinel-1 (S1) satellite supported by active fire data from the MODIS sensor were used to …

The mitigation hierarchy is a decision-making framework designed to address impacts on
biodiversity and ecosystem services through first seeking to avoid impacts wherever …

The tropical forests of Africa are experiencing unprecedented changes as a result of a rapid
proliferation of roads and other infrastructure. These projects are dramatically increasing …

Abstract Tropical forests in Central Africa host unique biodiversity threatened by human
degradation of habitats and defaunation. Forests allocated to conservation, production and …

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 …

Habitat fragmentation, the transformation of interconnected large habitats into several small
patches, is generally considered to have a negative influence on biodiversity. Management …

Climate change is one of the key drivers of the dramatic erosion of global biodiversity.
Poikilothermic organisms, such as amphibians, are particularly prone to alterations in …

Logging roads can trigger tropical forest degradation by reducing the integrity of the
ecosystem and providing access for encroachment. Therefore, road management is crucial …