Forest fragmentation, synergisms and the impoverishment of neotropical forests

By M. Tabarelli, J. M. Cardoso da Silva, C. Gascon. Biodiversity and Conservation, 2004

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Subfields: Forestry, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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The challenge of maintaining Atlantic forest biodiversity: A multi-taxa conservation assessment of specialist and generalist species in an agro-forestry mosaic in southern Bahia (2009, background): “Strong and probably long-standing alterations in species assemblages occur rapidly, even with low levels of deforestation, probably as a result of multiple factors that are exacerbated by fragmentation such as edge effects, fire, logging and hunting (Silva and Tabarelli, 2000; Tabarelli et al., 200”
Prospects for biodiversity conservation in the Atlantic Forest: Lessons from aging human-modified landscapes (2010, background): “embedded in a harsh matrix of human-managed habitats, dominated by pastures, croplands, and urban areas (Tabarelli et al., 2004; Ribeiro et al., 2009).”
Removal of palm fruits and ecosystem engineering in palm stands by white-lipped peccaries (Tayassu pecari) and other frugivores in an isolated Atlantic Forest fragment (2009, background): “In forest fragments, reductions in the production of Xeshy fruits have been documented (Wright and Duber 2001; Tabarelli et al. 2004).”
Historical climate modelling predicts patterns of current biodiversity in the Brazilian Atlantic forest (2008, background): “Increasing attention to conservation and population monitoring has recently been given to Pernambuco’s centre of endemism (da Silva & Tabarelli, 2000, 2001; Tabarelli & da Silva, 2002; Tabarelli & Peres, 2002; Uchoa Neto & Tabarelli, 2002; Tabarelli et al., 2004).”
Forest fragmentation drives Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil to biotic homogenization (2011, background): “…to the effects of fragmentation – especially edge effects, recurrent fires, and the collapse of plant–animal interactions due to overhunting – promoting shifts in the taxonomic and functional signature of tree assemblages (Tabarelli et al., 2004; Laurance et al., 2006; Michalski et al., 2007).”
The Multiple Impacts of Leaf‐Cutting Ants and Their Novel Ecological Role in Human‐Modified Neotropical Forests (2014, background): “With the expansion of agricultural frontiers, many small forest fragments within private landholdings are likely to be confined to economically marginal lands and become gradually embedded in a human-managed, harsh matrix dominated by pastures, croplands, and urban areas (Tabarelli et al. 2004).”
Primates in Fragments (2013, unknown): “275 Kristel M. De Vleeschouwer and Becky E. Raboy 20 A Critically Endangered Capuchin Monkey (Sapajus xanthosternos) Living in a Highly Fragmented Hotspot ............................................................................... 299 Gustavo Rodrigues Canale, Maria Cecília Martins Kierulff, and”
Fruit Availability and Peccary Frugivory in an Isolated Atlantic Forest Fragment: Effects on Peccary Ranging Behavior and Habitat Use (2007, background): “Area reduction is generally accompanied by a loss of habitat diversity, which in turn affects fruit diversity (Wright & Duber 2001, Tabarelli et al. 2004).”
High mammal species turnover in forest patches immersed in biofuel plantations (2017, background): “In most tropical areas, native forest remnants largely persist within private landholdings, embedded within matrices of sugarcane and pasture (Tabarelli et al., 2004).”
Disturbance‐Mediated Drift in Tree Functional Groups in Amazonian Forest Fragments (2007, background): “…extinctions events, and there is sufficient evidence to indicate that fragmentation does not occur alone, but is often associated with other patterns of natural and anthropogenic forest disturbance (Tabarelli et al. 2004, Peres & Michalski 2006), which can aggravate threats to tree populations.”
Long-term erosion of tree reproductive trait diversity in edge-dominated Atlantic forest fragments (2009, background): “…of trees (i.e. functional depauperation) probably results from a myriad of biotic and abiotic processes in edge-affected habitats that can either favour the establishment and spread of pioneer species, or suppress the recruitment of shade-tolerant and mature forest species (Tabarelli et al., 2004).”
Plant Herbivore Interactions at the Forest Edge (2008, background): “Most forest biota tend to be reduced to archipelagos of small fragments or edge-affected habitats (increased edge-to-interior ratios), which remain immersed within environmentally hostile matrices, such as pastures, croplands, and urban areas (Tabarelli et al. 2004).”
Landscape matrix and species traits mediate responses of Neotropical resident birds to forest fragmentation in Jamaica (2010, background): “…abundances, which may be due to the reduction in the vertical complexity of forest structure and the loss of canopy and emergent trees in peri-urban and bauxite mining landscapes (Appendix C), an effect that has also been shown to accompany tropical forest fragmentation (Tabarelli et al. 2004).”