Old‐growth tropical forests are being extensively deforested and fragmented worldwide. Yet
forest recovery through succession has led to an expansion of secondary forests in human …

Summary The Brazilian Atlantic Forest hosts one of the world's most diverse and threatened
tropical forest biota. In many ways, its history of degradation describes the fate experienced …

Tropical forests are being deforested worldwide, and the remaining fragments are suffering
from biomass and biodiversity erosion. Quantifying this erosion is challenging because …

Carbon storage is widely acknowledged as one of the most valuable forest ecosystem
services. Deforestation, logging, fragmentation, fire, and climate change have significant …

Habitat loss and fragmentation due to human activities is the leading cause of the loss of
biodiversity and ecosystem services. Protected areas are the primary response to this …

Biodiversity hotspots are among some of the habitats most threatened by climate change,
and the Brazilian Atlantic forest is no exception. Only 11.6% of the natural vegetation cover …

With the decreasing affordability of protecting large blocks of pristine tropical forests,
ecologists have staked their hopes on the management of human-modified landscapes …

In addition to acute transformations of ecosystems caused by deforestation, old‐growth
forests world‐wide are being increasingly altered by low‐intensity but chronic human …

Despite its relevance to contemporary biodiversity conservation, the ecological mechanisms
controlling nonrandom species replacements and biotic homogenization of native biotas …

Biotic homogenisation is defined as decreasing dissimilarity among ecological assemblages
sampled within a given spatial area over time. Biotic differentiation, in turn, is defined as …