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William F. Laurance
Researcher at James Cook University
Publications - 486
Citations - 65526
William F. Laurance is an academic researcher from James Cook University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Deforestation & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 118, co-authored 470 publications receiving 56464 citations. Previous affiliations of William F. Laurance include Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute & Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
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Predicting the impacts of edge effects in fragmented habitats
William F. Laurance,Eric Yensen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a core-area model is proposed for assessing the ecological impacts of edge effects in fragments of natural habitat surrounded by artificial edges. But the model requires two edge function parameters and the area and perimeter length of the fragment.
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A global strategy for road building
William F. Laurance,Gopalasamy Reuben Clements,Sean Sloan,Christine S. O’Connell,N. D. Mueller,Miriam Goosem,Oscar Venter,David Edwards,Ben Phalan,Andrew Balmford,Rodney van der Ree,Irene Burgues Arrea +11 more
TL;DR: This large-scale zoning plan seeks to limit the environmental costs of road expansion while maximizing its benefits for human development, by helping to increase agricultural production, which is an urgent priority given that global food demand could double by mid-century.
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Biomass Collapse in Amazonian Forest Fragments
William F. Laurance,Susan G. Laurance,Leandro Valle Ferreira,Judy M. Rankin-de Merona,Claude Gascon,Thomas E. Lovejoy +5 more
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.
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The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old‐growth Amazonian forests
Yadvinder Malhi,Yadvinder Malhi,Daniel Wood,Timothy R. Baker,James S. Wright,Oliver L. Phillips,Thomas A. Cochrane,Patrick Meir,Jérôme Chave,Samuel Almeida,L. Arroyo,Niro Higuchi,Timothy J. Killeen,Susan G. Laurance,William F. Laurance,Simon L. Lewis,Abel Monteagudo,David A. Neill,Percy Núñez Vargas,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Carlos A. Quesada,Rafael de Paiva Salomão,José Natalino Macedo Silva,José Natalino Macedo Silva,Armando Torres Lezama,John Terborgh,Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez,Barbara Vinceti +27 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a new synthesis and interpolation of the basal area and aboveground live biomass of old-growth lowland tropical forests across South America, based on data from 227 forest plots, many previously unpublished.
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Reflections on the tropical deforestation crisis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the pattern and pace of tropical forest destruction in the Americas, Asia, and Africa, and discuss some factors that tend to promote forest conversion in developing countries, and propose that human population pressure, weak government institutions, increasing trade liberalization, and industrial logging are emerging as key drivers of forest destruction.