Maintaining ecosystem function and services in logged tropical forests

DP Edwards, JA Tobias, D Sheil, E Meijaard… - Trends in ecology & …, 2014 - cell.com
Vast expanses of tropical forests worldwide are being impacted by selective logging. We
evaluate the environmental impacts of such logging and conclude that natural timber …

Biodiversity loss in Latin American coffee landscapes: review of the evidence on ants, birds, and trees

SM Philpott, WJ Arendt, I Armbrecht… - Conservation …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Studies have documented biodiversity losses due to intensification of coffee management
(reduction in canopy richness and complexity). Nevertheless, questions remain regarding …

[图书][B] Conservation by proxy: indicator, umbrella, keystone, flagship, and other surrogate species

T Caro - 2010 - books.google.com
The vast scope of conservation problems has forced biologists and managers to rely on"
surrogate" species to serve as shortcuts to guide their decision making. These species …

Global patterns and predictors of bird species responses to forest fragmentation: implications for ecosystem function and conservation

TP Bregman, CH Sekercioglu, JA Tobias - Biological Conservation, 2014 - Elsevier
The fragmentation of forests is a dominant human impact worldwide with major implications
for the conservation and management of ecosystems. Although many studies have …

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 …

Does logging and forest conversion to oil palm agriculture alter functional diversity in a biodiversity hotspot?

FA Edwards, DP Edwards, TH Larsen… - Animal …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Forests in S outheast A sia are rapidly being logged and converted to oil palm. These
changes in land‐use are known to affect species diversity but consequences for the …

Functional structure of ant and termite assemblages in old growth forest, logged forest and oil palm plantation in Malaysian Borneo

SH Luke, TM Fayle, P Eggleton, EC Turner… - Biodiversity and …, 2014 - Springer
Forested tropical landscapes around the world are being extensively logged and converted
to agriculture, with serious consequences for biodiversity and potentially ecosystem …

Mammalian species abundance across a gradient of tropical land-use intensity: A hierarchical multi-species modelling approach

OR Wearn, JM Rowcliffe, C Carbone, M Pfeifer… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent work in the tropics has advanced our understanding of the local impacts of land-use
change on species richness. However, we still have a limited ability to make predictions …

Functional traits of epiphytic lichens in response to forest disturbance and as predictors of total richness and diversity

A Benítez, G Aragón, Y González, M Prieto - Ecological Indicators, 2018 - Elsevier
Epiphytic lichens are good ecological indicators of climatic and environmental changes. The
physiology of lichens is related with their morphology and anatomy (traits) and thus the …

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 …