Five anthropogenic drivers–land use change, wood extraction, hunting, atmospheric
change, climate change–will largely determine the future of tropical forests. The geographic …

Road networks are expanding in tropical countries, increasing human access to remote
forests that act as refuges for biodiversity and provide globally important ecosystem services …

Developing countries are increasingly decentralizing forest governance by granting
indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to land. However, the …

In the past two decades, scholarship on resource use and management has emphasized the
key role of institutions, communities, and socio-economic factors. Although much of this …

Many factors such as poverty, ineffective institutions and environmental regulations may
prevent developing countries from managing how natural resources are extracted to meet a …

In recent decades the rate and geographic extent of land‐use and land‐cover change has
increased throughout the world's humid tropical forests. The pan‐tropical geography of …

Disturbance and deforestation have profound ecological and socioeconomic effects on
tropical forests, but their diffuse patterns are difficult to detect and quantify at regional scales …

Identifying drivers of deforestation in tropical biodiversity hotspots is critical to assess threats
to particular ecosystems and species and proactively plan for conservation. We analyzed …

In Argentina, deforestation due to agriculture expansion is threatening the Semi-arid Chaco,
one of the largest forested biomes of South America. This study focuses on the north-west …

REDD+ is one of the leading near-term options for global climate change mitigation. More
than 300 subnational REDD+ initiatives have been launched across the tropics, responding …