Increasing human dominance of tropical forests

Mapping the World's Intact Forest Landscapes by Remote Sensing

(2016) Peter Potapov et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

(2015) R. J. W. Brienen et al.   NATURE

Defining the Anthropocene

(2015) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Effects of large-scale deforestation on precipitation in the monsoon regions: Remote versus local effects

(2015) N. Devaraju et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Logging cuts the functional importance of invertebrates in tropical rainforest

(2015) Robert M. Ewers et al.   Nature Communications

Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth's ecosystems

(2015) N. M. Haddad et al.   Science Advances

Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene

(2014) Yadvinder Malhi et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Improved timber harvest techniques maintain biodiversity in tropical forests

(2014) Jake E. Bicknell et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Thresholds of Logging Intensity to Maintain Tropical Forest Biodiversity

(2014) Zuzana Burivalova et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The transparency, reliability and utility of tropical rainforest land-use and land-cover change models

(2014) Isabel M. D. Rosa et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Perturbations in the carbon budget of the tropics

(2014) John Grace et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A large-scale field assessment of carbon stocks in human-modified tropical forests

(2014) Erika Berenguer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A global strategy for road building

(2014) William F. Laurance et al.   NATURE

Drought sensitivity of Amazonian carbon balance revealed by atmospheric measurements

(2014) L. V. Gatti et al.   NATURE

A two-fold increase of carbon cycle sensitivity to tropical temperature variations

(2014) Xuhui Wang et al.   NATURE

Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions

(2014) P. M. Brando et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Maintaining ecosystem function and services in logged tropical forests

(2014) David P. Edwards et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Cheap carbon and biodiversity co-benefits from forest regeneration in a hotspot of endemism

(2014) James J. Gilroy et al.   Nature Climate Change

Land-use change trajectories up to 2050: insights from a global agro-economic model comparison

(2013) Christoph Schmitz et al.   AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Preindustrial Human Impacts on Global and Regional Environment

(2013) Christopher E. Doughty   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Ecological erosion of an Afrotropical forest and potential consequences for tree recruitment and forest biomass

(2013) John R. Poulsen et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Consequences of defaunation for a tropical tree community

(2013) Rhett D Harrison et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Microhabitats reduce animal's exposure to climate extremes

(2013) Brett R. Scheffers et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Functional attributes change but functional richness is unchanged after fragmentation of Brazilian Atlantic forests

(2013) Luiz Fernando S. Magnago et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

(2013) Chris Huntingford et al.   Nature Geoscience

Climatic and cultural changes in the west Congo Basin forests over the past 5000 years

(2013) R. Oslisly et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests

(2013) S. L. Lewis et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tropical forest recovery from logging: a 24 year silvicultural experiment from Central Africa

(2013) S. Gourlet-Fleury et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Devastating Decline of Forest Elephants in Central Africa

(2013) Fiona Maisels et al.   PLoS One

Natural Experiment Demonstrates That Bird Loss Leads to Cessation of Dispersal of Native Seeds from Intact to Degraded Forests

(2013) Eleanor M. Caves et al.   PLoS One

Used planet: A global history

(2013) E. C. Ellis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Governance regime and location influence avoided deforestation success of protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon

(2013) C. Nolte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Navjot's nightmare revisited: logging, agriculture, and biodiversity in Southeast Asia

(2013) David S. Wilcove et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Mining and the African Environment

(2013) David P. Edwards et al.   Conservation Letters

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

(2012) T. Mitchell Aide et al.   BIOTROPICA

Drought-induced shifts in the floristic and functional composition of tropical forests in Ghana

(2012) Sophie Fauset et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

What controls tropical forest architecture? Testing environmental, structural and floristic drivers

(2012) L. Banin et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Observations of increased tropical rainfall preceded by air passage over forests

(2012) D. V. Spracklen et al.   NATURE

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

(2012) William F. Laurance et al.   NATURE

What we know and don’t know about Earth's missing biodiversity

(2012) Brett R. Scheffers et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: the attained and the attainable

(2012) Francis E. Putz et al.   Conservation Letters

Neogene origins and implied warmth tolerance of Amazon tree species

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

How pristine are tropical forests? An ecological perspective on the pre-Columbian human footprint in Amazonia and implications for contemporary conservation

(2011) Jos Barlow et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Coincident mass extirpation of neotropical amphibians with the emergence of the infectious fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2011) T. L. Cheng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Intensive tree planting facilitates tropical forest biodiversity and biomass accumulation in Kibale National Park, Uganda

(2010) Patrick A. Omeja et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Biophysical considerations in forestry for climate protection

(2010) Ray G Anderson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Multiple mechanisms of Amazonian forest biomass losses in three dynamic global vegetation models under climate change

(2010) David Galbraith et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Estimating the risk of Amazonian forest dieback

(2010) Anja Rammig et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Forest transitions, trade, and the global displacement of land use

(2010) P. Meyfroidt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s

(2010) H. K. Gibbs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Contemporary Assessment of Change in Humid Tropical Forests

(2009) GREGORY P. ASNER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

The velocity of climate change

(2009) Scott R. Loarie et al.   NATURE

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

Trade-offs and synergies between carbon storage and livelihood benefits from forest commons

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

Elevation increases in moth assemblages over 42 years on a tropical mountain

(2009) I.-C. Chen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bushmeat Hunting As Climate Threat

(2009) J. F. Brodie et al.   SCIENCE

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

(2009) O. L. Phillips et al.   SCIENCE

TREE RECRUITMENT IN AN EMPTY FOREST

(2008) John Terborgh et al.   ECOLOGY

Fire-mediated dieback and compositional cascade in an Amazonian forest

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