Carlos Portillo-Quintero

TL;DR: In this article, the results of an assessment on the current extent of Neotropical dry forests based on a supervised classification of MODIS surface reflectance imagery at 500m resolution are presented.

TL;DR: The global fire detection record provided by the satellite-based Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) was used to determine the number of fires detected inside 823 tropical and subtropical moist forest reserves and for contiguous buffer areas 5, 10, and 15 km wide and the ratio of fire detection densities inside reserves to their contiguousbuffer areas provided an index of reserve effectiveness.

TL;DR: The results indicate that different vegetation classes, as well as a multi-spatial scale approach must be considered for evaluating bat response to variation in landscape attributes, and for the long-term conservation of phyllostomid bats, the management of the habitat at the landscape level is as important as the conservation of particular forest fragments.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a comprehensive evaluation of the current regional literature associated with tropical dry forests (TDF) along three main axes: biodiversity, carbon and water conservation in the neotropics.

TL;DR: Sanchez-Azofeifa et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the extent and degree of fragmentation of tropical dry forests in the Neotropics and found that tropical forests do not exist outside of the Amazon basin or that high priority should be given to tropical rain forests.