Degraded lands worth protecting: the biological importance of Southeast Asia's repeatedly logged forests

DP Edwards, TH Larsen… - … of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Southeast Asia is a hotspot of imperilled biodiversity, owing to extensive logging and forest
conversion to oil palm agriculture. The degraded forests that remain after multiple rounds of …

Severe declines of understory birds follow illegal logging in Upper Guinea forests of Ghana, West Africa

N Arcilla, LH Holbech, S O'Donnell - Biological Conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
We investigated how legal logging history and recent illegal logging affected forest bird
community structure in Ghana. Ghanaian forests belong to West Africa's highly fragmented …

The conservation value of South East Asia's highly degraded forests: evidence from leaf-litter ants

P Woodcock, DP Edwards, TM Fayle… - … of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
South East Asia is widely regarded as a centre of threatened biodiversity owing to extensive
logging and forest conversion to agriculture. In particular, forests degraded by repeated …

Navjot's nightmare revisited: logging, agriculture, and biodiversity in Southeast Asia

DS Wilcove, X Giam, DP Edwards, B Fisher… - Trends in ecology & …, 2013 - cell.com
In 2004, Navjot Sodhi and colleagues warned that logging and agricultural conversion of
Southeast Asia's forests were leading to a biodiversity disaster. We evaluate this prediction …

Effects of rain forest logging on species richness and assemblage composition of small mammals in Southeast Asia

K Wells, EKV Kalko, MB Lakim… - Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The effects of logging and habitat degradation on the richness and abundance of small
mammals in Asian rain forests are largely unknown. This work compares the species …

Logging concessions can extend the conservation estate for Central African tropical forests

CJ Clark, JR Poulsen, R Malonga… - Conservation …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The management of tropical forest in timber concessions has been proposed as a solution to
prevent further biodiversity loss. The effectiveness of this strategy will likely depend on …

Land‐sharing versus land‐sparing logging: reconciling timber extraction with biodiversity conservation

DP Edwards, JJ Gilroy, P Woodcock… - Global change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Selective logging is a major driver of rainforest degradation across the tropics. Two
competing logging strategies are proposed to meet timber demands with the least impact on …

Changes in bird abundance following selective logging on Seram, Indonesia

SJ Marsden - Conservation Biology, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Timber concessions cover 90% of forest on some Indonesian islands, but the effects of
logging on endemic‐rich island avifaunas are poorly known. I used a point count method to …

Impacts of logging and conversion of rainforest to oil palm on the functional diversity of birds in S undaland

FA Edwards, DP Edwards, KC Hamer, RG Davies - Ibis, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Commercial selective logging and the conversion of primary and degraded forests to
agriculture are the biggest threats to tropical biodiversity. Our understanding of the impacts …

The high value of logged tropical forests: lessons from northern Borneo

NJ Berry, OL Phillips, SL Lewis, JK Hill… - Biodiversity and …, 2010 - Springer
The carbon storage and conservation value of old-growth tropical forests is clear, but the
value of logged forest is less certain. Here we analyse> 100,000 observations of individuals …