Parks and protected areas are essential for biodiversity conservation but inadequate to
assure the continued existence of the majority of natural landscapes, ecosystems …

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 …

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

Land-use history interacts with natural forces to influence the severity of disturbance events
and the rate and nature of recovery processes in tropical forests. Although we are far from an …

Although soil compaction in the field may benefit or inhibit the growth of plants, the harmful
effects are much more common. This paper emphasizes the deleterious effects of …

Variation in forest canopy structure influences both understory light availability and its spatial
distribution. Because light is a major environmental factor limiting growth and survival of …

We compare the distribution of reproductive traits in woody vegetation of 10 wet tropical
forests in northeastern Costa Rica. Based on quantitative sampling of seedlings, saplings …

Asian tropical forests are amongst the most diverse on the planet, a richness that belies the
fact that they are dominated by a single family of trees, the Dipterocarpaceae. Many other …

Roads cause multiple ecological impacts by altering biotic and abiotic conditions that affect
ecosystem structure and functioning from local to regional scales. Roadside plant …

The establishment of commercial tree regeneration is currently a focus for concern regarding
the sustainability of logging in the tropical forests of Bolivia. This study compared the density …