Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world.

By T. Gardner, Jos Barlow, R. Chazdon, Robert M. Ewers, C. Harvey, C. A. Peres, N. Sodhi. Ecology Letters, 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Beyond the Fragmentation Threshold Hypothesis: Regime Shifts in Biodiversity Across Fragmented Landscapes (2010, background): “First, it reemphasises the vital importance of developing conservation plans that account for landscape-scale processes [11,13].”
Maintenance of tree phylogenetic diversity in a highly fragmented rain forest (2012, background): “This situation has fuelled a crucial debate about the prospect of biodiversity and ecosystem services in human-modified landscapes (Lindenmayer et al. 2008; Gardner et al. 2009; Isbell et al. 2011).”
Shaded Coffee and Cocoa : Double Dividend for Biodiversity and Small-scale Farmers (2017, background): “Some studies reported a decline in biodiversity when coffee or cacao management intensifies (e.g. Faria et al., 2007; Gardner et al., 2009), whereas other studies did not find such an overall effect (e.g. Steffan-Dewenter et al., 2007; Gordon et al., 2007).”
Conserving Southeast Asian forest biodiversity in human-modified landscapes (2010, background): “Therefore, in addition to protecting relatively undisturbed forests, conservation biologists have to also develop strategies to make human-dominated areas more hospitable for forest biodiversity (Gardner et al., 2009; Koh and Gardner, 2010).”
The 'few winners and many losers' paradigm revisited: Emerging prospects for tropical forest biodiversity (2012, background): “The degree of seasonality, biogeographic patterns, evolutionary exposure to natural disturbances, and land-use history are all expected to influence the diversity of pioneer or disturbance-adapted species (Gardner et al., 2009; Koh et al., 2010) and, accordingly, the ecosystem resiliency of tropical”
Biodiversity consequences of land-use change and forest disturbance in the Amazon:a multi-scale assessment using ant communities (2016, background): “As a result, much of the remaining areas of tropical forests are embedded within human-modified landscapes containing different land-use systems, including a variety of agricultural lands and areas of standing forests that have experienced different levels of anthropogenic disturbance (Gardner et al”
Forest fragmentation drives Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil to biotic homogenization (2011, background): “Tropical forests, however, are currently exposed to alarming rates of habitat loss and fragmentation (Laurance & Peres, 2006), with large blocks of former continuous and pristine forest habitats rapidly converted into sets of small fragments embedded into human-modified habitats such as pastures, cr”
Landscape and patch attributes impacting medium- and large-sized terrestrial mammals in a fragmented rain forest (2013, background): “Because species presence declines along a land-use gradient (Gardner et al. 2009), the relative quality was ranked based on the vegetation structure of each land-cover type on a five-point scale: 1 (human settlements, lowest quality), 2 (cattle pastures), 3 (shrub crops), 4 (tree crops) and 5…”
Responses of Tropical Bats to Habitat Fragmentation, Logging, and Deforestation (2015, background): “Resulting landscapes typically comprise a mosaic of human-modified habitats that include agroforests, agricultural land, and tree plantations, as well as remnants of old-growth, logged forest, and secondary forests regenerating from clearance or burning (Gardner et al. 2009; Chazdon 2014).”
Functional attributes change but functional richness is unchanged after fragmentation of Brazilian Atlantic forests (2014, background): “Nevertheless, given the high species richness and spatial turnover in intact tropical forests, fragments that have apparently undergone severe declines in species richness can still retain a subset of species with high conservation value (Hill et al. 2011; Arroyo-Rodriguez et al. 2009; Gardner et al”
Impact of landscape composition and configuration on forest specialist and generalist bird species in the fragmented Lacandona rainforest, Mexico (2015, background): “It is thus necessary to adopt a landscape perspective that distinguishes between composition and configuration in tropical ecosystems, to obtain a better understanding of species’ responses to land-use changes in HMTLs, and improve management and conservation strategies in the tropics (Gardner et al”
Amphibians over the edge: silent extinction risk of Data Deficient species (2014, background): “…successful conservation strategies involve habitat preservation and conservation of functional ecosystems (Foley et al., 2005; Hooper et al., 2005; Gardner et al., 2009; Koh & Sodhi, 2010), and this analysis provides a tool to highlight specific areas where such conservation funds might be most…”