Large herbivores play unique ecological roles and are disproportionately imperiled by
human activity. As many wild populations dwindle towards extinction, and as interest grows …

Terrestrial mammals are experiencing a massive collapse in their population sizes and
geographical ranges around the world, but many of the drivers, patterns and consequences …

Cryptic function loss occurs when the ecological function of an animal population is
significantly altered as a result of disturbance, even though the species is still present in the …

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 …

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

The object of curiosity and admiration of scientists and conservationists, the Brazilian
Atlantic Forest is scientifically explored in this book. Over the 23 chapters written by 149 …

Defaunation can trigger cascading events in natural communities and may have strong
consequences for plant recruitment in tropical forests. Several species of large seed …

Large continuous rainforests are the main hope for sustaining the population of large‐
bodied vertebrates that cannot cope with fragmentation or unsustainable hunting. The …

Recent controversy over whether biodiversity reduces disease risk (dilution effect) has
focused on the ecology of Lyme disease, a tick‐borne zoonosis. A criticism of the dilution …

Forest fragmentation and defaunation are considered the main drivers of biodiversity loss,
yet the synergistic effects of landscape changes and biotic interactions on assemblage …