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Forest Clearing in the Pantropics: December 2005–August 2011- Working Paper 283 [PDF]

This report summarizes recent trends in large-scale tropical forest clearing identified by FORMA (Forest Monitoring for Action). Our analysis includes 27 countries that accounted for 94 percent of clearing during the period 2000–2005.
David Wheeler, Robin Kraft, Dan Hammer
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Embryonic development of the Mediterranean starfish Hacelia attenuata

Developmental Dynamics, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Starfish play essential ecological roles as predators and ecosystem regulators; however, detailed developmental descriptions exist for only a handful of species, none of which are from the Mediterranean Sea. Results In this study, we provide the first full account of the development of the Mediterranean starfish Hacelia attenuata ...
Silvia Caballero‐Mancebo, Laurent Gilletta, Janet Chenevert, Stefania Castagnetti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tropical Forests and Climate Change Mitigation: The Global Potential and Cases from the Philippines [PDF]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC Fourth Assessment report has highlighted the role of tropical forests in mitigating climate change.
Rodel D. Lasco
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Sprawling roads enhanced tropical forest loss during the period 2001–2020

Sprawling road networks cutting through forested areas continue to be a potent catalyst of deforestation in tropical regions. Yet, pantropical assessments limited by the lack of high-resolution global maps of tropical forest loss induced by road networks.
Xueman Zuo, Lin, Qinxian, Xisheng Hu, Ludan Zhang, Yan, Guodong, Zhang, Ludan, Lin, Sen, Tao Hong, Sen Lin, Zhen, Shiyong, Hu, Xisheng, Xincheng Zheng, Wu, Chengzhen, Chengzhen Wu, Li, Jian, Hong, Tao, Shuang Liu, Jin Chen, Zheng, Xincheng, Chen, Jin, Zhilong Wu, Qinxian Lin, Rongzu Qiu, Shiyong Zhen, Guodong Yan, Zou, Zeyao, Wu, Zhilong, Jian Li, Zuo, Xueman, Li, Jiazheng, Zeyao Zou, Qiu, Rongzu, Jiazheng Li, Liu, Shuang   +33 more
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Environmental and local habitat variables as predictors of trophic interactions in subtidal rocky reefs along the SE Pacific coast

Ecography, EarlyView.
Temperature generally drives latitudinal patterns in the strength of trophic interactions, including consumption rates. However, local community and other environmental conditions might also affect consumption, disrupting latitudinal gradients, which results in complex large‐scale patterns.
Catalina A. Musrri, Alistair G. B. Poore, Oscar Pino, Nicolás Riquelme, Wolfgang B. Stotz, Fadia Tala, Martin Thiel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remnant trees affect species composition but not structure of tropical second-growth forest

, 2013
Remnant trees, spared from cutting when tropical forests are cleared for agriculture or grazing, act as nuclei of forest regeneration following field abandonment.
Sandor, Manette E. and Chazdon, Robin L.
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Developing a macroecology for human‐altered ecosystems

Ecography, EarlyView.
Although anthropogenically‐induced ecological disruptions are fundamentally important in defining ecosystem properties, they are largely overlooked by macroecological theory. Anthropogenic disruptions and their effects are generally not comparable to one another, nor to disturbances that are part of natural disturbance regimes.
Erica A. Newman, Mark Q. Wilber, Alexandre Génin, Oriana E. Chafe, Henry F. Houskeeper, Steven Lee, Eric L. Berlow, John Harte   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

MODELING ECOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON TROPICAL FOREST MANAGEMENT: COMMENT

We comment on four aspects of Albers' [1] model of ecological constraints on tropical forest management. Albers structures her model in a highly asymmetric manner, with strong, uniform biases against development and in favor of preservation.
Barrett, Christopher B., Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.   +1 more
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Age‐related trends in niche position and specialization in Neotropical vertebrates

Ecography, EarlyView.
Species' niche positions and breadths within a region's environmental space, measured through ecological niche factor analysis (ENFA) as marginality and specialization, can reflect evolutionary constraints related to lineage age. The ‘internal incumbency' hypothesis predicts that older species, due to competitive preemption, occupy more central niche ...
Carlos Calderón del Cid, Fabricio Villalobos, Ricardo Dobrovolski, Bruno Vilela   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tropical Forest Protection, Uncertainty, and the Environmental Integrity of Carbon Mitigation Policies [PDF]

Tropical forests are estimated to release approximately 1.7 PgC per year as a result of deforestation. Avoiding tropical deforestation could potentially play a significant role in carbon mitigation over the next 50 years if not longer.
Shuguang Liu, Joanna Hendy, Suzi Kerr, Alexander S. P. Pfaff   +3 more
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