Economic, socio-political and environmental risks of road development in the tropics

M Alamgir, MJ Campbell, S Sloan, M Goosem… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
It is projected that 25 million km of new paved roads will be developed globally by 2050—
enough to encircle the planet more than 600 times. Roughly 90% of new roads will be built …

An A mazonian rainforest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change

WF Laurance, JLC Camargo, PM Fearnside… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We synthesize findings from one of the world's largest and longest‐running experimental
investigations, the B iological D ynamics of F orest F ragments P roject (BDFFP). Spanning …

The erosion of biodiversity and biomass in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot

RAF de Lima, AA Oliveira, GR Pitta… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Tropical forests are being deforested worldwide, and the remaining fragments are suffering
from biomass and biodiversity erosion. Quantifying this erosion is challenging because …

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

WF Laurance, D Carolina Useche, J Rendeiro, M Kalka… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The rapid disruption of tropical forests probably imperils global biodiversity more than any
other contemporary phenomenon,,. With deforestation advancing quickly, protected areas …

Defaunation affects carbon storage in tropical forests

C Bello, M Galetti, MA Pizo, LFS Magnago… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
Carbon storage is widely acknowledged as one of the most valuable forest ecosystem
services. Deforestation, logging, fragmentation, fire, and climate change have significant …

Comparable biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks on warming from tropical moist forest degradation

L Zhu, W Li, P Ciais, J He, A Cescatti, M Santoro… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Tropical forests have undergone extensive deforestation and degradation during the past
few decades, but the area and the carbon loss due to degradation could be larger than the …

Unifying research on social–ecological resilience and collapse

GS Cumming, GD Peterson - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2017 - cell.com
Ecosystems influence human societies, leading people to manage ecosystems for human
benefit. Poor environmental management can lead to reduced ecological resilience and …

The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: a 32-year investigation

WF Laurance, JLC Camargo, RCC Luizão… - Biological …, 2011 - Elsevier
We synthesize findings to date from the world's largest and longest-running experimental
study of habitat fragmentation, located in central Amazonia. Over the past 32years …

A large‐scale field assessment of carbon stocks in human‐modified tropical forests

E Berenguer, J Ferreira, TA Gardner… - Global change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical rainforests store enormous amounts of carbon, the protection of which represents a
vital component of efforts to mitigate global climate change. Currently, tropical forest …

High resolution analysis of tropical forest fragmentation and its impact on the global carbon cycle

K Brinck, R Fischer, J Groeneveld, S Lehmann… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Deforestation in the tropics is not only responsible for direct carbon emissions but also
extends the forest edge wherein trees suffer increased mortality. Here we combine high …