Tropical forests in a changing environment.

By Stephen J. Wright. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2005

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

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Establishment of tree seedlings in the understory of restoration plantations: natural regeneration and enrichment plantings (2016, background): “In several regions of the tropics, landscapes are highly fragmented and have low forest cover, thus hampering biodiversity conservation and the provision of ecosystem services (Wright 2005; FAO 2010; Hansen et al. 2013).”
The value of primary, secondary and plantation forests for fruit-feeding butterflies in the Brazilian Amazon (2007, background): “Globally, tropical secondary forests reclaimed one-sixth of all primary forests that were clear-cut in the 1990s ( Wright 2005 ), and are likely to be a dominant feature of tropical forest landscapes in the future (Wright & Muller-Landau 2006).”
Global State of Biodiversity and Loss (2003, background): “For example, plant life form diversity in a tropical rain forest would include several species of herbs, epiphytic herbs, shrubs, hemiepiphytic trees, light-demanding and shade-tolerant trees, vines, lianas, palms, and parasitic plants; different types of forest will have contrasting relative abunda”
A Meta‐Analysis of the Impact of Anthropogenic Forest Disturbance on Southeast Asia's Biotas (2009, background): “predominantly habitat loss, fragmentation, and environmental degradation—are operating on a massive scale, and are accelerating (Achard et al. 2002, Wright 2005, Sodhi et al. 2007).”
Small‐Scale Fragmentation Effects on Local Genetic Diversity in Two Phyllostomid Bats with Different Dispersal Abilities in Panama (2009, background): “In tropical regions habitat loss due to deforestation is particularly severe and conversion of native forests into humanmodified landscapes continues unabated (Whitmore 1997, Wright 2005), resulting in widespread habitat fragmentation (Wade et al. 2003).”
The Multiple Impacts of Leaf‐Cutting Ants and Their Novel Ecological Role in Human‐Modified Neotropical Forests (2014, background): “In coming decades, the growth and spread of the human populations in tropical countries will result in large tracts of forest being converted into archipelagos of fragments and regenerating forest patches (Wright 2005).”
Contrasting above‐ground biomass balance in a Neotropical rain forest (2010, background): “A debate has arisen regarding the interpretation of biomass accumulation, and concentrates on two hypotheses: response to ongoing global climate change or recovery from past disturbances (Wright 2005; Clark 2007; Körner 2009; Muller-Landau 2009).”
Recent decline in suitable environmental conditions for African great apes (2012, background): “The effects of this conservation crisis have been particularly severe in tropical regions, which support c. 50% of described species (Wright, 2005), including our closest living relatives, the great apes.”
Ecology and conservation of avian insectivores of the rainforest understory: A pantropical perspective (2015, background): “This diversity is in jeopardy, however, as more than half of the area covered by closed-canopy tropical forests has already been cleared (Wright, 2005), and forest loss continues”
Time-lag in biological responses to landscape changes in a highly dynamic Atlantic forest region (2009, neutral): “Almost half of the remaining tropical forest is secondary or disturbed (5,000,000 km2; Wright, 2005).”
Effects of biological invasions on forest carbon sequestration (2010, background): “…have generated intense debate in scientific and policy arenas, and produced a rapidly developing literature, particularly on carbon dioxide (CO2) enrichment, land use change, nitrogen (N) deposition and climate change (Schimel et al., 2001; Wardle, 2002; Wright, 2005; De Vries et al., 2006).”