Fragmentation drives tropical forest fragments to early successional states: A modelling study for Brazilian Atlantic forests

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The 'few winners and many losers' paradigm revisited: Emerging prospects for tropical forest biodiversity (2012, background): “…the above and below ground phytomass, such as carbon storage, flood pulse regula- tion, soil protection, and nutrient cycling, may be largely depleted as edge-affected habitats and pioneer-dominated WLRs encroach upon typical old-growth conditions in human-modified landscapes (Pütz et al., 2011).”
Ecological Flexibility in Boutourlini’s Blue Monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis boutourlinii) in Jibat Forest, Ethiopia: A Comparison of Habitat Use, Ranging Behavior, and Diet in Intact and Fragmented Forest (2013, background): “Consistent with patterns found in other tropical forests, contiguous intact forest at Jibat contained more plant species, higher species diversity, and higher species evenness than fragmented forest (Putz et al. 2011; Souza et al. 2012).”
Functional attributes change but functional richness is unchanged after fragmentation of Brazilian Atlantic forests (2014, background): “There are severe abiotic changes at fragment edges, such as desiccation, wind disturbance, light and temperature increase, and decrease in air humidity, which are likely to cause some of the biological edge-effects that occur after fragmentation (Fagan et al. 1999; Laurance et al. 2002, 2011; Tabare”