Old‐growth tropical forests are being extensively deforested and fragmented worldwide. Yet
forest recovery through succession has led to an expansion of secondary forests in human …

Tissue succulence in plants involves the storage of water in one or more organs or tissues to
assist in maintaining water potentials on daily or seasonal time scales. This drought …

The Caatinga is a well-recognized ecological region that lies in the semiarid hinterland of
northeastern Brazil and that covers 912,529 km 2. The term 'Caatinga'refers mostly to a …

Understanding how chronic anthropogenic disturbances are distributed in space leads to
more effective conservation and management practices. This study provides a large‐scale …

Seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF s) are one of the most threatened forests world‐wide.
These species‐rich forests not only cope with several acute (eg forest loss) and chronic (eg …

Questions What is the magnitude of the differences in environment and chronic human
disturbance between contrasting slope aspects and topographic positions in a seasonally …

Context Biodiversity is modulated by the spatial structure of the landscape. Thus, landscape
metrics can be useful indicators of biota integrity and vulnerability, helping in conservation …

Chronic disturbances, such as selective logging, firewood extraction and extensive grazing,
may lead to the taxonomic and phylogenetic impoverishment of remaining old‐growth forest …

Although chronic anthropogenic disturbance (CAD) represents a significant threat to the
integrity of tropical biotas, few efforts have been made to understand its impacts. We address …

Anthropogenic disturbance and climate change are major threats to biodiversity. The
Brazilian Caatinga is the world's largest and most diverse type of seasonally dry tropical …