In the context of the climate and biodiversity crisis facing our planet, tropical forests playing a
key role in global carbon flux and containing over half of Earth's species are important to …

Tropical forests are being deforested worldwide, and the remaining fragments are suffering
from biomass and biodiversity erosion. Quantifying this erosion is challenging because …

Highlights•Government PAs and CCs avoided deforestation and degradation.•CCs seem
equally or more effective than government PAs in this respect.•Their social impacts are more …

South America has been an epicenter of land cover and land use change (LCLUC) for over
five decades due to rapid agricultural expansion along forest frontiers, the establishment of …

Although the Toplica region is situated in a forest-rich part of the Republic of Serbia, the
region's four municipalities are not equally forested. Forests are an important resource for …

Context Habitat loss is a major factor influencing declines in landscape connectivity for many
species, but forest patch configuration and changes in matrix permeability can also …

Ethnopharmacological relevance Information on the use of medicinal plants in the daily life
by Paraguayan people is scarce in mainstream scientific literature. The study on the …

Mangrove forests provide vital ecosystem services for millions of people living in coastal
communities. The expansion of aquaculture production and urbanization have been …

Monitoring and evaluation of landscape fragmentation is important in numerous research
areas, such as natural resource protection and management, sustainable development, and …

Tropical forests are threatened due to forest clearing and fragmentation which lead to a
decrease in forest cover area and landscape connectivity, while also increasing edge …