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The global palm oil sector must change to save biodiversity and improve food security in the tropics

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The last frontiers of wilderness: Tracking loss of intact forest landscapes from 2000 to 2013

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Public health impacts of the severe haze in Equatorial Asia in September–October 2015: demonstration of a new framework for informing fire management strategies to reduce downwind smoke exposure

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What would it take to achieve the Paris temperature targets?

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Can carbon emissions from tropical deforestation drop by 50% in 5 years?

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Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates

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Human ecology in pathogenic landscapes: two hypotheses on how land use change drives viral emergence

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Distance sampling reveals Cambodia's Eastern Plains Landscape supports the largest global population of the Endangered banteng Bos javanicus

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Reconciling Food Production and Biodiversity Conservation: Land Sharing and Land Sparing Compared

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Ecohydrology of Terrestrial Ecosystems

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Assessment of Aboveground Carbon in Primary and Selectively Harvested Tropical Forest in Papua New Guinea

(2010) Julian C. Fox et al.   BIOTROPICA

Global Mapping of Ecosystem Disservices: The Unspoken Reality that Nature Sometimes Kills us

(2010) Robert R. Dunn   BIOTROPICA

A Global Perspective on Hantavirus Ecology, Epidemiology, and Disease

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Bushmeat Hunting and Climate: An Indirect Link

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(2010) Bejan Lortkipanidze   URSUS

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How Forests Attract Rain: An Examination of a New Hypothesis

(2009) Douglas Sheil et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Forest Elephants: Tree Planters of the Congo

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(2009) Lilian Blanc et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Projected impacts of climate change on a continent-wide protected area network

(2009) David G. Hole et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The role of plantations in managing the world's forests in the Anthropocene

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(2009) Shilong Piao et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

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(2009) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Bushmeat Hunting As Climate Threat

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Forests and floods: A new paradigm sheds light on age-old controversies

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Promoting human health through forests: overview and major challenges

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(2008) Sebastiaan Luyssaert et al.   NATURE

Global trends in emerging infectious diseases

(2008) Kate E. Jones et al.   NATURE

Oil and Gas Projects in the Western Amazon: Threats to Wilderness, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Peoples

(2008) Matt Finer et al.   PLoS One

Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE

Beyond Deforestation: Restoring Forests and Ecosystem Services on Degraded Lands

(2008) R. L. Chazdon   SCIENCE