Summary The Brazilian Atlantic Forest hosts one of the world's most diverse and threatened
tropical forest biota. In many ways, its history of degradation describes the fate experienced …

Despite its relevance to contemporary biodiversity conservation, the ecological mechanisms
controlling nonrandom species replacements and biotic homogenization of native biotas …

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

Carbon storage is widely acknowledged as one of the most valuable forest ecosystem
services. Deforestation, logging, fragmentation, fire, and climate change have significant …

Tropical forests have undergone extensive deforestation and degradation during the past
few decades, but the area and the carbon loss due to degradation could be larger than the …

Tropical rainforests store enormous amounts of carbon, the protection of which represents a
vital component of efforts to mitigate global climate change. Currently, tropical forest …

Deforestation in the tropics is not only responsible for direct carbon emissions but also
extends the forest edge wherein trees suffer increased mortality. Here we combine high …

The agricultural expansion and intensification required to meet growing food and agri-based
product demand present important challenges to future levels and management of …

The cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao L.) is cultivated typically in agroforestry systems in close
association with a rich list of tree species and other useful plants on the same plot. Cocoa …

This study provides an approximation of the potential impact of fuelwood harvesting in one
of the most threatened tropical biodiversity conservation hotspots, the northern portion of the …