Claude Gascon

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesized key findings from the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, the world's largest and longest-running experimental study of habitat fragmentation, and found that fragmentation is highly eclectic, altering species richness and abundances, species invasions, forest dynamics, the trophic structure of communities, and a variety of ecological and ecosystem processes.

TL;DR: Though the threat of extinction is increasing, overall declines would have been worse in the absence of conservation, and current conservation efforts remain insufficient to offset the main drivers of biodiversity loss in these groups.

TL;DR: Positive and significant correlations between matrix abundance and vulnerability to fragmentation are exhibited, suggesting that species that avoid the matrix tend to decline or disappear in fragments, while those that tolerate or exploit the matrix often remain stable or increase.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of rain forest fragments in central Amazonia was conducted, where the authors found that up to 36 percent of the above-ground tree biomass was lost in the first 10 to 17 years after fragmentation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the potential of agroforestry in tropical regions for making land economically productive without degrading the environment and found that agro-forestry can be the most biodiversity-friendly land use option.