Understanding tropical forest succession is critical for the development of tropical forest
conservation strategies worldwide, given that tropical secondary forests can be considered …

Intensification in land-use and farming practices has had largely negative effects on bats,
leading to population declines and concomitant losses of ecosystem services. Current …

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

The successional dynamics of forests—from canopy openings to regeneration, maturation,
and decay—influence the amount and heterogeneity of resources available for forest …

Land-use change is a key driver of the global biodiversity crisis and a particularly serious
threat to tropical biodiversity. Throughout the tropics, the staggering pace of deforestation …

Though seasonally dry tropical forests are equally as important to global biodiversity as
tropical rainforests, and are one of the most representative and highly endangered …

Context Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation are widespread drivers of biodiversity
decline. Understanding how habitat quality interacts with landscape context, and how they …

Decision-makers increasingly seek scientific guidance on investing in nature, but
biodiversity remains difficult to estimate across diverse landscapes. Here, we develop …

Neotropical bats are sensitive to human‐induced habitat changes, and some authors
believe bats can be used as bioindicators. In the literature, however, the results are …

Neotropical forests are being increasingly replaced by a mosaic of patches of different
successional stages, agricultural fields and pasture lands. Consequently, the identification of …