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 …

[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 …

Systematics, phylogeny, and evolution of braconid wasps: 30 years of progress

X Chen, C van Achterberg - Annual Review of Entomology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The parasitoid wasp family Braconidae is likely the second-most species-rich family in the
animal kingdom. Braconid wasps are widely distributed and often encountered. They …

Tropical forest loss impoverishes arboreal mammal assemblages by increasing tree canopy openness

SJ Cudney‐Valenzuela… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Landscape‐scale deforestation poses a major threat to global biodiversity, not only because
it limits habitat availability, but also because it can drive the degradation of the remaining …

Direct and cascading effects of landscape structure on tropical forest and non‐forest frugivorous birds

JC Morante‐Filho, V Arroyo‐Rodríguez… - Ecological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Global biodiversity is increasingly threatened by land‐use change, but the direct and indirect
drivers of species diversity in human‐modified tropical landscapes are poorly known. Forest …

Tropical biodiversity: The importance of biotic interactions for its origin, maintenance, function, and conservation

E Andresen, V Arroyo-Rodríguez, F Escobar - Ecological networks in the …, 2018 - Springer
Most of the Earth's terrestrial biodiversity is found in tropical forests, a fact that fascinates us
today as it did the early naturalists of past centuries. It is in this biome where a tremendously …

Contributions of insects and droughts to growth decline of trembling aspen mixed boreal forest of western Canada

L Chen, JG Huang, A Dawson, L Zhai… - Global Change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Insects, diseases, fire and drought and other disturbances associated with global climate
change contribute to forest decline and mortality in many parts of the world. Forest decline …

Anthropogenic fragmentation of landscapes: mechanisms for eroding the specificity of plant–herbivore interactions

R Bagchi, LM Brown, CS Elphick, DL Wagner… - Oecologia, 2018 - Springer
Reduced ecological specialization is an emerging, general pattern of ecological networks in
fragmented landscapes. In plant–herbivore interactions, reductions in dietary specialization …

Anthropogenic activities affect forest structure and arthropod abundance in a Kenyan biodiversity hotspot

GN Kung'u, L Cousseau, M Githiru, JC Habel… - Biodiversity and …, 2023 - Springer
Land-use change remains the main threat to tropical forests and their dependent fauna and
flora, and degradation of existing forest remnants will further accelerate species loss. Forest …

Decreasing predation rates and shifting predator compositions along a land‐use gradient in Madagascar's vanilla landscapes

D Schwab, A Wurz, I Grass… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐use change is the main driver of deforestation and land degradation resulting in the
loss of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in north‐eastern Madagascar. Vanilla, the …