As the terrestrial human footprint continues to expand, the amount of native forest that is free
from significant damaging human activities is in precipitous decline. There is emerging …

In the context of the climate and biodiversity crisis facing our planet, tropical forests playing a
key role in global carbon flux and containing over half of Earth's species are important to …

Anthropogenic and natural forest disturbance cause ecological damage and carbon
emissions. Forest disturbance in the Amazon occurs in the form of deforestation (conversion …

A regional assessment of forest disturbance dynamics from 2000 to 2014 was performed for
the Congo Basin countries using time-series satellite data. Area of forest loss was estimated …

Given the short time-frame to limit global warming, and the current emissions gap, it is critical
to prioritise mitigation actions. To date, scant attention has been paid to the mitigation …

It is largely unknown how South America's Andean forests affect the global carbon cycle,
and thus regulate climate change. Here, we measure aboveground carbon dynamics over …

Less than half of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions remain in the atmosphere. While
carbon balance models imply large carbon uptake in tropical forests, direct on-the-ground …

Unsustainable exploitation of natural resources is increasingly affecting the highly
biodiverse tropics [1, 2]. Although rapid developments in remote sensing technology have …

We present a range-wide assessment of sympatric western lowland gorillas Gorilla gorilla
gorilla and central chimpanzees Pan troglodytes troglodytes using the largest survey data …

Selective logging, fragmentation, and understory fires directly degrade forest structure and
composition. However, studies addressing the effects of forest degradation on carbon, water …