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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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Fire as a large-scale edge effect in Amazonian forests.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate that in eastern Amazonia, fires are operating as a large-scale edge effect in the sense that most fires originate outside fragments and penetrate considerable distances into forest interiors.
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Rapid decay of tree-community composition in Amazonian forest fragments
William F. Laurance,Henrique E. M. Nascimento,Susan G. Laurance,Ana Andrade,José Eduardo Lahoz da Silva Ribeiro,Juan Pablo Giraldo,Thomas E. Lovejoy,Richard Condit,Jérôme Chave,Kyle E. Harms,Sammya D'Angelo +10 more
TL;DR: It is shown that forest fragmentation provokes surprisingly rapid and profound alterations in Amazonian tree-community composition, likely to have wide-ranging impacts on forest architecture, canopy-gap dynamics, plant–animal interactions, and forest carbon storage.
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Roads, deforestation, and the mitigating effect of protected areas in the Amazon
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed relationships between past deforestation and existing networks of highways, navigable rivers, and all other roads, including more than 190,000 km of unofficial roads.
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Edge effects in tropical forest fragments: application of a model for the design of nature reserves
TL;DR: It is suggested that isolated nature reserves in NE Queensland must exceed 2000–4000 ha, depending on reserve shape, to ensure that >50% of the reserve remains unaffected by induced forest.
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Relationship between soils and Amazon forest biomass: a landscape-scale study
William F. Laurance,Philip M. Fearnside,Susan G. Laurance,Patricia Delamônica,Thomas E. Lovejoy,Judy M. Rankin-de Merona,Jeffrey Q. Chambers,Claude Gascon +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the above-ground dry biomass of living trees including palms was estimated in 65 1 ha plots spanning a 1000 km 2 landscape in central Amazonia, where the study area was located on heavily weathered, nutrient-poor soils that are widespread in the Amazon region.