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Long‐term trends in parasite diversity and infection levels: approaches and patterns

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Parasites exist in every ecosystem, affecting nearly all organisms and playing a complex role in human societies. On the one hand, they contribute substantially to biodiversity and support ecosystem stability by performing essential ecological functions.
Cyril Hammoud   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Restoring Overlogged Tropical Forests

open access: yes, 2006
Overlogged forests are degraded but nevertheless important. They may continue to be a source of timber and supply an important amount of forest products, particularly for local people whose livelihoods depend on their extraction. One aspect of restoration would be to prevent adding more overlogged areas by implementing sound logging, silvicultural, and
Sabogal, C., Nasi, Robert
openaire   +2 more sources

Tracking REDD+ Finance: 2009-2012 - Finance Flows in Seven REDD+ Countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). This REDDX report tracks the 2009-2012 flow of REDD+ finance from a variety of donors to seven tropical forest countries for various types of REDD+ activities.
Brian Schaap   +5 more
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Regularized estimation for highly multivariate log Gaussian Cox processes

open access: yes, 2019
Statistical inference for highly multivariate point pattern data is challenging due to complex models with large numbers of parameters. In this paper, we develop numerically stable and efficient parameter estimation and model selection algorithms for a ...
Choiruddin, Achmad   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

Regional and local determinants of drought resilience in tropical forests

open access: gold, 2022
Renan Köpp Hollunder   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source

The impacts of biological invasions

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock   +42 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soil carbon loss by experimental warming in a tropical forest

open access: yesNature, 2020
A. Nottingham   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Early evolutionary history of the seed

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The seed is an essential stage in the life history of gymnospermous and angiospermous plants, facilitating both their survival and dispersal. We reappraise knowledge of the evolutionary history of the gymnospermous seed, from its origin in the late Devonian through to the well‐known end‐Permian extinctions – an interval encompassing the ...
Richard M. Bateman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Typology of logging companies in the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
After 20 years of labeling with a strong increase of certified surfaces all around the world, real advantages and inconveniences of a company certified with regard to a normal company are not well known.
Martinez Plaza, Santiago   +2 more
core  

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