Anthropogenic trade and development have broken down dispersal barriers, facilitating the
spread of diseases that threaten Earth's biodiversity. We present a global, quantitative …

Central America hosts a diverse, unique, and imperiled amphibian fauna, and for decades
Central America been a major epicenter of research into amphibian decline and …

An annotated inventory of the herpetofauna of Lawachara National Park in Bangladesh is
presented, based primarily on original field observations recorded during a six-year survey …

Different human land uses are not uniform in their ecological effects on remnant faunas.
Explicitly recognizing the relative habitat value of prevalent land uses in comparison to forest …

Introducción: La compensación ambiental es la alternativa final para enfrentar los impactos
de proyectos de desarrollo que no pueden ser evitados, reducidos o mitigados. La …

Tropical land‐use change is a key driver of global declines in biodiversity and a major
source of anthropogenic carbon emissions, yet there is a substantial shortfall in the funding …

Biodiversity loss is a global phenomenon that can result in the collapse of food webs and
critical ecosystem services. Amphibian population decline over the last century is a notable …

Understanding how well tropical forest biodiversity can recover following habitat change is
often difficult due to conflicting assessments arising from different studies. One often …

The use of lizards as model organisms in ecological studies is based on their success in
occupying a great diversity of habitats, and some species are closely tied to the …

Approximately 70% of Earth's surface is impacted by human land-use. While numerous
studies have demonstrated that species richness is higher in primary (undisturbed) forest …