Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

By Luke Gibson, T. Lee, Lian Pin Koh, Barry W. Brook, T. Gardner, Jos Barlow, C. A. Peres, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, W. Laurance, T. Lovejoy and 1 more. Nature, 2011

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Responses of Tropical Bats to Habitat Fragmentation, Logging, and Deforestation (2015, background): “2) broadly parallels the pattern reported for multiple taxa across the tropics (Gibson et al. 2011).”
Ecology and conservation of avian insectivores of the rainforest understory: A pantropical perspective (2015, background): “Granted, there is no substitute for primary forest to sustain biological diversity (Gibson et al., 2011), but anthropogenic habitats such as shade coffee and secondary forests may help conserve understory insectivores in the form of buffers, corridors for dispersal and other landscape connec-”
A major shift to the retention approach for forestry can help resolve some global forest sustainability issues (2012, background): “Large protected areas also provide “natural controls” for use in assessing the impacts of forest management practices (see Gibson et al. 2011).”
Examining protected area effectiveness in Sumatra: importance of regulations governing unprotected lands (2012, background): “…lower impacts on the overall maintenance of biodiversity than deforestation (Woodcock et al. 2001; Meijaard & Sheil 2008; Edwards et al. 2011; Gibson et al. 2011) it remains an important anthropogenic disturbance that affects large tropical forest areas (Broadbent et al. 2008; Asner et al.…”
Biodiversity consequences of land-use change and forest disturbance in the Amazon:a multi-scale assessment using ant communities (2016, background): “Third, the cover of primary forest explained 75% of the variation in species richness at the landscape scale, which further reinforces the value of primary forest in biodiversity conservation (Barlow et al. 2007a, Gibson et al. 2011).”
Frequent bird movements across a highly fragmented landscape: the role of species traits and forest matrix (2013, background): “…birds, as highly mobile species, are often considered to be less affected by fragmentation than other taxonomic groups of lower mobility (Harris & Reed, 2002; Price, 2006; Lees & Peres, 2009; Marini, 2010), they can actually exhibit sensitivity to fragmentation in many biomes (Gibson et al., 2011).”
Ecological impacts of invading seaweeds: a meta‐analysis of their effects at different trophic levels (2015, methodology): “For the reasons explained above and following Gibson et al. (2011) and He et al. (2013), median effect sizes and 95% confidence intervals were calculated by resampling one observation per publication, using 10,000 bootstrap samples, generated with replacement.”