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The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation
William F. Laurance,William F. Laurance,José Luís Camargo,Regina C. C. Luizão,Susan G. Laurance,Susan G. Laurance,Stuart L. Pimm,Emilio M. Bruna,Philip C. Stouffer,G. Bruce Williamson,Julieta Benítez-Malvido,Heraldo L. Vasconcelos,Kyle S. Van Houtan,Kyle S. Van Houtan,Charles E. Zartman,Sarah A. Boyle,Raphael K. Didham,Raphael K. Didham,Ana Andrade,Thomas E. Lovejoy +19 more
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In this paper, the authors synthesize findings to date from the world's largest and longest-running experimental study of habitat fragmentation, located in central Amazonia, and synthesize the results to date.About:
This article is published in Biological Conservation.The article was published on 2011-01-01. It has received 745 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project & Habitat fragmentation.read more
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Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems
Nick M. Haddad,Lars A. Brudvig,Jean Clobert,Kendi F. Davies,Andrew Gonzalez,Robert D. Holt,Thomas E. Lovejoy,Joseph O. Sexton,Mike P. Austin,Cathy D. Collins,William M. Cook,Ellen I. Damschen,Robert M. Ewers,Bryan L. Foster,Clinton N. Jenkins,Andrew J. King,William F. Laurance,Douglas J. Levey,Chris Margules,Chris Margules,Brett A. Melbourne,A. O. Nicholls,A. O. Nicholls,John L. Orrock,Dan-Xia Song,John R. Townshend +25 more
TL;DR: An analysis of global forest cover is conducted to reveal that 70% of remaining forest is within 1 km of the forest’s edge, subject to the degrading effects of fragmentation, indicating an urgent need for conservation and restoration measures to improve landscape connectivity.
Supplementary Materials for Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth's ecosystems
Nick M. Haddad,Lars A. Brudvig,Jean Clobert,Kendi F. Davies,Andrew Gonzalez,Robert D. Holt,Thomas E. Lovejoy,Joseph O. Sexton,Mike P. Austin,Cathy D. Collins,William M. Cook,Ellen I. Damschen,Robert M. Ewers,Bryan L. Foster,Clinton N. Jenkins,Andrew J. King,William F. Laurance,Douglas J. Levey,Chris R. Margules,Brett A. Melbourne,A. O. Nicholls,John L. Orrock,Dan-Xia Song,John R. Townshend +23 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted an analysis of global forest cover to reveal that 70% of remaining forest is within 1 km of the forest's edge, subject to the degrading effects of fragmentation.
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Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes - eight hypotheses
Teja Tscharntke,Jason M. Tylianakis,Tatyana A. Rand,Raphael K. Didham,Raphael K. Didham,Raphael K. Didham,Lenore Fahrig,Péter Batáry,Péter Batáry,Janne Bengtsson,Yann Clough,Thomas O. Crist,Carsten F. Dormann,Robert M. Ewers,Jochen Fründ,Robert D. Holt,Andrea Holzschuh,Alexandra M. Klein,David Kleijn,Claire Kremen,Doug A. Landis,William F. Laurance,David B. Lindenmayer,Christoph Scherber,Navjot S. Sodhi,Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter,Carsten Thies,Wim H. van der Putten,Catrin Westphal +28 more
TL;DR: This review uses knowledge gained from human‐modified landscapes to suggest eight hypotheses, which it hopes will encourage more systematic research on the role of landscape composition and configuration in determining the structure of ecological communities, ecosystem functioning and services.
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Agricultural expansion and its impacts on tropical nature
TL;DR: Key priorities are to improve technologies and policies that promote more ecologically efficient food production while optimizing the allocation of lands to conservation and agriculture.
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Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas
William F. Laurance,William F. Laurance,D. Carolina Useche,Julio Rendeiro,Margareta B. Kalka,Corey J. A. Bradshaw,Sean Sloan,Susan G. Laurance,Mason J. Campbell,Kate Abernethy,Patricia Alvarez,Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez,Peter S. Ashton,Julieta Benítez-Malvido,Allard Blom,Kadiri Serge Bobo,Charles H. Cannon,Min Cao,R. W. Carroll,Colin A. Chapman,Rosamond Coates,Marina Cords,Finn Danielsen,Bart De Dijn,Eric Dinerstein,Maureen A. Donnelly,David Edwards,Felicity A. Edwards,Nina Farwig,Peter J. Fashing,Pierre-Michel Forget,Mercedes S. Foster,George A. Gale,David Harris,Rhett D. Harrison,John Hart,Sarah M. Karpanty,W. John Kress,Jagdish Krishnaswamy,Willis Logsdon,Jon C. Lovett,William E. Magnusson,Fiona Maisels,Fiona Maisels,Andrew R. Marshall,Deedra McClearn,Divya Mudappa,Martin Reinhardt Nielsen,Richard G. Pearson,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Jan van der Ploeg,Andrew J. Plumptre,John R. Poulsen,Mauricio Quesada,Hugo Rainey,Douglas W. Robinson,Christiane Roetgers,Francesco Rovero,Frederick N. Scatena,Christian H. Schulze,Douglas Sheil,Thomas T. Struhsaker,John Terborgh,Duncan W. Thomas,Robert M. Timm,J. Nicolás Urbina-Cardona,Karthikeyan Vasudevan,S. Joseph Wright,Juan Carlos Arias-G.,Luzmila Arroyo,Mark S. Ashton,Philippe Auzel,Dennis Babaasa,Fred Babweteera,Patrick J. Baker,Olaf Bánki,Margot Bass,Inogwabini Bila-Isia,Stephen Blake,Warren Y. Brockelman,Nicholas Brokaw,Carsten A. Brühl,Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin,Jung Tai Chao,Jérôme Chave,Ravi Chellam,Connie J. Clark,José Clavijo,Robert A. Congdon,Richard T. Corlett,H. S. Dattaraja,Chittaranjan Dave,Glyn Davies,Beatriz de Mello Beisiegel,Rosa De Nazaré Paes Da Silva,Anthony Di Fiore,Arvin C. Diesmos,Rodolfo Dirzo,Diane M. Doran-Sheehy,Mitchell J. Eaton,Louise H. Emmons,Alejandro Estrada,Corneille E. N. Ewango,Linda M. Fedigan,François Feer,Barbara Fruth,Jacalyn Giacalone Willis,Uromi Manage Goodale,Steven M. Goodman,Juan Carlos Guix,Paul Guthiga,William A. Haber,Keith C. Hamer,Ilka Herbinger,Jane K. Hill,Zhongliang Huang,I Fang Sun,Kalan Ickes,Akira Itoh,Natália Macedo Ivanauskas,Betsy R. Jackes,John P. Janovec,Daniel H. Janzen,Mo Jiangming,Chen Jin,Trevor Jones,Hermes Justiniano,Elisabeth K. V. Kalko,Aventino Kasangaki,Timothy J. Killeen,Hen Biau King,Erik Klop,Cheryl D. Knott,Inza Koné,Enoka P. Kudavidanage,José Lahoz Da Silva Ribeiro,John E. Lattke,Richard Laval,Robert O. Lawton,Miguel E. Leal,Mark Leighton,Miguel Lentino,Cristiane Leonel,Jeremy A. Lindsell,Lee Ling-Ling,K. Eduard Linsenmair,Elizabeth Losos,Ariel E. Lugo,Jeremiah S. Lwanga,Andrew L. Mack,Marlucia Bonifacio Martins,W. Scott McGraw,Roan McNab,Luciano Fogaça de Assis Montag,Jo Myers Thompson,Jacob Nabe-Nielsen,Michiko Nakagawa,Sanjay K. Nepal,Marilyn A. Norconk,Vojtech Novotny,Sean O'Donnell,Muse Opiang,Paul E. Ouboter,Kenneth C. Parker,Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy,Kátia Pisciotta,Dewi M. Prawiradilaga,Catherine M. Pringle,Subaraj Rajathurai,Ulrich H. Reichard,Katherine Renton,Glen Reynolds,Vernon Reynolds,Erin P. Riley,Mark-Oliver Rödel,Jessica M. Rothman,Philip D. Round,Shoko Sakai,Tania M. Sanaiotti,Tommaso Savini,Gertrud Schaab,John Seidensticker,Alhaji Siaka,Miles R. Silman,Thomas B. Smith,Samuel Almeida,Navjot S. Sodhi,Craig B. Stanford,Kristine Stewart,Emma J. Stokes,Kathryn E. Stoner,Raman Sukumar,Martin Surbeck,Mathias W. Tobler,Teja Tscharntke,Andrea K. Turkalo,Govindaswamy Umapathy,Merlijn van Weerd,Jorge H. Vega Rivera,Meena Venkataraman,Linda Venn,Carlos Verea,Carolina V. Castilho,Matthias Waltert,Benjamin C. Wang,David P. Watts,William Weber,Paige West,David Whitacre,Kenneth D. Whitney,David Wilkie,Stephen E. Williams,Debra D. Wright,Patricia C. Wright,Lu Xiankai,Pralad Yonzon,Franky Zamzani +216 more
TL;DR: These findings suggest that tropical protected areas are often intimately linked ecologically to their surrounding habitats, and that a failure to stem broad-scale loss and degradation of such habitats could sharply increase the likelihood of serious biodiversity declines.
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