The pace of deforestation in tropical forests has achieved unprecedented rates, requiring
effective and achievable conservation mitigations that are also easily understood by society …

Anthropogenic disturbances represent the main threat to biodiversity around the globe, yet
effects are not restricted to species loss. Assessing the functional diversity, which measures …

Tree outside forest (TOF) has immense potential in economic and environmental
development by increasing the amount of tree vegetation in and around rural settlements. It …

Mega dams in lowland tropical forests often create large archipelagos, leading to
biodiversity decay and disruption of ecosystem functioning in remnant habitat islands. We …

Context Biodiversity in tropical region has declined in the last decades, mainly due to forest
conversion into agricultural areas. Consequently, species occupancy in these landscapes is …

Context Anthropogenic land use and cover changes impact biodiversity worldwide.
However, ecological groups are differently affected by landscape composition and …

Understanding the processes that shape biological communities under a variety of
perturbations is a central challenge in ecology and conservation. Mammals contribute to …

Andean forests, a hotspot of biodiversity, have suffered extensive fragmentation, yet we have
little understanding of how this process has affected biodiversity. We surveyed bird …

Host phylogenetic relatedness and ecological similarity are thought to contribute to parasite
community assembly and infection rates. However, recent landscape level anthropogenic …

Forest transformation has major impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
Identifying the influence of forest habitat structure and composition on avian functional …