Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon

JS Albert, AC Carnaval, SGA Flantua, LG Lohmann… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Amazonian environments are being degraded by modern industrial and agricultural
activities at a pace far above anything previously known, imperiling its vast biodiversity …

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

BJ Cardinale, JE Duffy, A Gonzalez, DU Hooper… - Nature, 2012‏ - nature.com
The most unique feature of Earth is the existence of life, and the most extraordinary feature
of life is its diversity. Approximately 9 million types of plants, animals, protists and fungi …

The erosion of biodiversity and biomass in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot

RAF de Lima, AA Oliveira, GR Pitta… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Tropical forests are being deforested worldwide, and the remaining fragments are suffering
from biomass and biodiversity erosion. Quantifying this erosion is challenging because …

Thinning increases forest ecosystem carbon stocks

H Zhang, S Liu, J Yu, J Li, Z Shangguan… - Forest Ecology and …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Thinning, a major measure of forest management, is known to alter carbon sequestration by
affecting the forest microclimate and soil environmental conditions. However, how thinning …

Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services

MW Cadotte, K Carscadden… - Journal of applied …, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
The goal of conservation and restoration activities is to maintain biological diversity and the
ecosystem services that this diversity provides. These activities traditionally focus on the …

[کتاب][B] The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity: ecological and economic foundations

P Kumar - 2012‏ - api.taylorfrancis.com
Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature. Examples
include water and air quality regulation, nutrient cycling and decomposition, plant pollination …

Combined impacts of deforestation and wildlife trade on tropical biodiversity are severely underestimated

WS Symes, DP Edwards, J Miettinen… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Tropical forest diversity is simultaneously threatened by habitat loss and exploitation for
wildlife trade. Quantitative conservation assessments have previously considered these …

Dispersal limitation induces long-term biomass collapse in overhunted Amazonian forests

CA Peres, T Emilio, J Schietti, SJM Desmoulière… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
Tropical forests are the global cornerstone of biological diversity, and store 55% of the forest
carbon stock globally, yet sustained provisioning of these forest ecosystem services may be …

The BIOMASS mission: Map** global forest biomass to better understand the terrestrial carbon cycle

T Le Toan, S Quegan, MWJ Davidson, H Balzter… - Remote sensing of …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
In response to the urgent need for improved map** of global biomass and the lack of any
current space systems capable of addressing this need, the BIOMASS mission was …

Modelling carbon sources and sinks in terrestrial vegetation

S Fatichi, C Pappas, J Zscheischler… - New …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Contents Summary 652 I. Introduction 652 II. Discrepancy in predicting the effects of rising
[CO2] on the terrestrial C sink 655 III. Carbon and nutrient storage in plants and its modelling …