Conservation of Tropical Plant Biodiversity: What Have We Done, Where Are We Going?

The Tropical Biodiversity Data Gap: Addressing Disparity in Global Monitoring

(2016) Ben Collen et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Dawn of Drone Ecology: Low-Cost Autonomous Aerial Vehicles for Conservation

(2016) Lian Pin Koh et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Regulating Internet Trade in CITES Species

(2013) MAURIZIO SAJEVA et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Interhemispheric Temperature Asymmetry over the Twentieth Century and in Future Projections

(2013) Andrew R. Friedman et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Choose satellites to monitor deforestation

(2013) Jim Lynch et al.   NATURE

Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions

(2013) Guillermo E. Ponce-Campos et al.   NATURE

Forest ecology: Splinters of the Amazon

(2013) Jeff Tollefson   NATURE

Crop Expansion and Conservation Priorities in Tropical Countries

(2013) Ben Phalan et al.   PLoS One

Tropical Plant–Herbivore Networks: Reconstructing Species Interactions Using DNA Barcodes

(2013) Carlos García-Robledo et al.   PLoS One

Plant invasions and extinction debts

(2013) B. Gilbert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Invasive Plants Have Scale-Dependent Effects on Diversity by Altering Species-Area Relationships

(2013) K. I. Powell et al.   SCIENCE

Hurdles and Opportunities for Landscape-Scale Restoration

(2013) M. H. M. Menz et al.   SCIENCE

Essential Biodiversity Variables

(2013) H. M. Pereira et al.   SCIENCE

An expert judgement assessment of future sea level rise from the ice sheets

(2013) J. L. Bamber et al.   Nature Climate Change

Forecasting cloud forest in eastern and southern Mexico: conservation insights under future climate change scenarios

(2012) Octavio R. Rojas-Soto et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Addressing target two of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation by rapidly identifying plants at risk

(2012) James S. Miller et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Are we approaching ‘peak timber’ in the tropics?

(2012) Philip Shearman et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Global warming, habitat shifts and potential refugia for biodiversity conservation in the neotropical Guayana Highlands

(2012) Teresa Vegas-Vilarrúbia et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Climate change in the tropics: The end of the world as we know it?

(2012) Richard T. Corlett   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Managed Relocation: Integrating the Scientific, Regulatory, and Ethical Challenges

(2012) Mark W. Schwartz et al.   BIOSCIENCE

A Revised Conservation Assessment of Dipterocarps in Sabah

(2012) Colin R. Maycock et al.   BIOTROPICA

Deforestation and Reforestation of Latin America and the Caribbean (2001-2010)

(2012) T. Mitchell Aide et al.   BIOTROPICA

Dipterocarp Biology as a Window to the Understanding of Tropical Forest Structure: Where are we Looking Now?

(2012) Peter Ashton et al.   BIOTROPICA

Traditional medicinal plants in Ben En National Park, Vietnam

(2012) Hoang Van Sam et al.   BLUMEA

Specialization of Mutualistic Interaction Networks Decreases toward Tropical Latitudes

(2012) Matthias Schleuning et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A New Monstera Species (Araceae) of Economic Importance from Honduras

(2012) Alexander P. Karney et al.   ECONOMIC BOTANY

Will extreme climatic events facilitate biological invasions?

(2012) Jeffrey M Diez et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Climate-associated population declines reverse recovery and threaten future of an iconic high-elevation plant

(2012) Paul D. Krushelnycky et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Analysis of threats to South American flora and its implications for conservation

(2012) Julian Ramirez-Villegas et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Little left to lose: deforestation and forest degradation in Australia since European colonization

(2012) C. J. A. Bradshaw   Journal of Plant Ecology

Does long-distance pollen dispersal preclude inbreeding in tropical trees? Fragmentation genetics ofDysoxylum malabaricumin an agro-forest landscape

(2012) S. A. Ismail et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Little change in global drought over the past 60 years

(2012) Justin Sheffield et al.   NATURE

Ecosystem services from forest restoration: thinking ahead

(2012) Lorenzo Ciccarese et al.   NEW FORESTS

Protecting Important Sites for Biodiversity Contributes to Meeting Global Conservation Targets

(2012) Stuart H. M. Butchart et al.   PLoS One

Global Projections of 21st Century Land-Use Changes in Regions Adjacent to Protected Areas

(2012) Linda J. Beaumont et al.   PLoS One

Land Cover Change in Colombia: Surprising Forest Recovery Trends between 2001 and 2010

(2012) Ana María Sánchez-Cuervo et al.   PLoS One

Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools

(2012) K. C. Seto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Neonicotinoid Pesticide Reduces Bumble Bee Colony Growth and Queen Production

(2012) P. R. Whitehorn et al.   SCIENCE

Mapping the biosphere: exploring species to understand the origin, organization and sustainability of biodiversity

(2012) Q. D. Wheeler et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Phylogenetic diversity and nature conservation: where are we?

(2012) Marten Winter et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2013

(2012) William J. Sutherland et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The challenge to keep global warming below 2 °C

(2012) Glen P. Peters et al.   Nature Climate Change

Neogene origins and implied warmth tolerance of Amazon tree species

(2012) Christopher W. Dick et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Two new species of Gingers (Zingiberaceae) from Myanmar

(2012) Vinita Gowda et al.   PhytoKeys

A review of the conservation threats to carnivorous plants

(2011) David E. Jennings et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Taking stock of the assisted migration debate

(2011) N. Hewitt et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

How many herbarium specimens are needed to detect threatened species?

(2011) Malin C. Rivers et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Plant introduction, naturalization, and invasion in French Guiana (South America)

(2011) César Delnatte et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Control of invasive alien weeds averts imminent plant extinction

(2011) Cláudia Baider et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Biodiversity and Conservation of Tropical Peat Swamp Forests

(2011) Mary Rose C. Posa et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Disturbance and Resilience in Tropical American Palm Populations and Communities

(2011) Rommel Montúfar et al.   BOTANICAL REVIEW

Future Human Intervention in Ecosystems and the Critical Role for Evolutionary Biology

(2011) J. J. HELLMANN et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Climate Change, Connectivity, and Conservation Success

(2011) LEE HANNAH   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Forest fragmentation drives Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil to biotic homogenization

(2011) Diele Lôbo et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Keep collecting: accurate species distribution modelling requires more collections than previously thought

(2011) Kenneth J. Feeley et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Distributional migrations, expansions, and contractions of tropical plant species as revealed in dated herbarium records

(2011) Kenneth J. Feeley   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Absence of Howlers (Alouatta palliata) Influences Tree Seedling Densities in Tropical Rain Forest Fragments in Southern Mexico

(2011) Alberto Anzures-Dadda et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

What do matrix population models reveal about the sustainability of non-timber forest product harvest?

(2011) Isabel B. Schmidt et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

(2011) Luke Gibson et al.   NATURE

Climate change and evolutionary adaptation

(2011) Ary A. Hoffmann et al.   NATURE

How many flowering plants are pollinated by animals?

(2011) Jeff Ollerton et al.   OIKOS

Natural history collections as sources of long-term datasets

(2011) Adrian M. Lister   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Conservation successes at micro-, meso- and macroscales

(2011) Navjot S. Sodhi et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Climate change and tropical biodiversity: a new focus

(2011) Jedediah Brodie et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean?

(2011) Camilo Mora et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The restoration of biodiversity: Where has research been and where does it need to go?

(2010) L. A. Brudvig   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The future of tropical forests

(2010) S. Joseph Wright   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Subpopulations, locations and fragmentation: applying IUCN red list criteria to herbarium specimen data

(2010) Malin C. Rivers et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Future habitat loss and the conservation of plant biodiversity

(2010) Xingli Giam et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Growth of an understory herb is chronically reduced in Amazonian forest fragments

(2010) Paul R. Gagnon et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Conservation and the botanist effect

(2010) Antje Ahrends et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

How successful are plant species reintroductions?

(2010) Sandrine Godefroid et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota

(2010) William F. Laurance et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Contrasting effects of an invasive ant on a native and an invasive plant

(2010) Lori Lach et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Predicted impact of exotic vines on an endangered ecological community under future climate change

(2010) Rachael V. Gallagher et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Effects of Pioneer Tree Species Hyperabundance on Forest Fragments in Northeastern Brazil

(2010) MARCELO TABARELLI et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Effects of an Exotic Plant Invasion on Native Understory Plants in a Tropical Dry Forest

(2010) AYESHA E. PRASAD   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Potential consequences of climate warming for tropical plant species in high mountains of southern Ethiopia

(2010) Juergen Kreyling et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

High-temperature tolerance of a tropical tree,Ficus insipida: methodological reassessment and climate change considerations

(2010) G. Heinrich Krause et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

The data void in modeling current and future distributions of tropical species

(2010) KENNETH J. FEELEY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Upslope migration of Andean trees

(2010) Kenneth J. Feeley et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

INTRODUCTION: Contributions of landscape genetics - approaches, insights, and future potential

(2010) VICTORIA L. SORK et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Resilience of Native Plant Community Following Manual Control of Invasive Cinchona pubescens in Galápagos

(2010) Heinke Jäger et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

CITES Designation for Endangered Rosewood in Madagascar

(2010) M. A. Barrett et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity Conservation: Challenges Beyond 2010

(2010) Michael R. W. Rands et al.   SCIENCE

Boosting CITES

(2010) J. Phelps et al.   SCIENCE

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

(2010) S. H. M. Butchart et al.   SCIENCE

Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) and its conservation implications

(2010) Michael B. Mascia et al.   Conservation Letters

Re-assessing current extinction rates

(2009) Nigel E. Stork   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Invasive aliens on tropical East Asian islands

(2009) Richard T. Corlett   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

The state and conservation of Southeast Asian biodiversity

(2009) Navjot S. Sodhi et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Global analysis of the protection status of the world’s forests

(2009) Christine B. Schmitt et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Biological invasions in developing and developed countries: does one model fit all?

(2009) Martin A. Nuñez et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Modeling biodiversity loss by global warming on Pantepui, northern South America: projected upward migration and potential habitat loss

(2009) Sandra Nogué et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Conservation of the Unique Neotropical Vascular Flora of the Guayana Highlands in the Face of Global Warming

(2009) VALENTÍ RULL et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Seed dispersal and predation in the endemic Atlantic rainforest palm Astrocaryum aculeatissimum across a gradient of seed disperser abundance

(2009) Camila I. Donatti et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Annual wood production in a tropical rain forest in NE Costa Rica linked to climatic variation but not to increasing CO2

(2009) DAVID B. CLARK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest

(2009) Y. Malhi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extinction risks of Amazonian plant species

(2009) K. J. Feeley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A DNA barcode for land plants

(2009) et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impacts of roads and linear clearings on tropical forests

(2009) William F. Laurance et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Plants on the IUCN Red List: setting priorities to inform conservation

(2009) George E. Schatz   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Botanic gardens science for conservation and global change

(2009) John S. Donaldson   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Tropical botanical gardens: at the in situ ecosystem management frontier

(2009) Jin Chen et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

The science and economics of ex situ plant conservation

(2009) De-Zhu Li et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Why have endemic pollinators declined on the Ogasawara Islands?

(2008) Tetsuto Abe et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Achieving Target 2 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation: building a preliminary assessment of vascular plant species using data from herbarium specimens

(2008) Gary A. Krupnick et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Why tropical island endemics are acutely susceptible to global change

(2008) Damien A. Fordham et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Hunting reduces recruitment of primate-dispersed trees in Amazonian Peru

(2008) Gabriela Nunez-Iturri et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Influence of light and nutrient conditions on seedling growth of native and invasive trees in the Seychelles

(2008) Eva Schumacher et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Population Dynamics of the Dioecious Amazonian PalmMauritia flexuosa: Simulation Analysis of Sustainable Harvesting

(2008) Jennifer A. Holm et al.   BIOTROPICA

DNA Barcoding-a Windfall for Tropical Biology?

(2008) W. John Kress et al.   BIOTROPICA

Beyond Reserves: A Research Agenda for Conserving Biodiversity in Human-modified Tropical Landscapes

(2008) Robin L. Chazdon et al.   BIOTROPICA

Invasive Exotic Plants in the Tropical Pacific Islands: Patterns of Diversity

(2008) Julie S. Denslow et al.   BIOTROPICA

Plant Conservation in the Caribbean Island Biodiversity Hotspot

(2008) Mike Maunder et al.   BOTANICAL REVIEW

The Paradox of Forest Fragmentation Genetics

(2008) ANDREA T. KRAMER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

ALIEN BUMBLE BEE AFFECTS NATIVE PLANT REPRODUCTION THROUGH INTERACTIONS WITH NATIVE BUMBLE BEES

(2008) Ikumi Dohzono et al.   ECOLOGY

Why forests appear resistant to exotic plant invasions: intentional introductions, stand dynamics, and the role of shade tolerance

(2008) Patrick H Martin et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Tropical turmoil: a biodiversity tragedy in progress

(2008) Corey JA Bradshaw et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Genetic consequences of habitat fragmentation in plant populations: susceptible signals in plant traits and methodological approaches

(2008) RAMIRO AGUILAR et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Effects of rising temperatures and [CO2] on the physiology of tropical forest trees

(2008) J. Lloyd et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Extinction Risk Escalates in the Tropics

(2008) Jana C. Vamosi et al.   PLoS One

DNA barcoding the floras of biodiversity hotspots

(2008) R. Lahaye et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Species invasions and extinction: The future of native biodiversity on islands

(2008) D. F. Sax et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude

(2008) C. A. Deutsch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Future battlegrounds for conservation under global change

(2008) T. M. Lee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Need to Cut China's Illegal Timber Imports

(2008) W. F. Laurance; et al.   SCIENCE

Global Warming, Elevational Range Shifts, and Lowland Biotic Attrition in the Wet Tropics

(2008) R. K. Colwell et al.   SCIENCE

Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt

(2008) J. Fargione et al.   SCIENCE

Synergies among extinction drivers under global change

(2008) B BROOK et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Is oil palm agriculture really destroying tropical biodiversity?

(2008) Lian Pin Koh et al.   Conservation Letters