Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human‐modified world
University of Cambridge · Lancaster University · +6 more institutions
Abstract
The future of tropical forest biodiversity depends more than ever on the effective management of human-modified landscapes, presenting a daunting challenge to conservation practitioners and land use managers. We provide a critical synthesis of the scientific insights that guide our understanding of patterns and processes underpinning forest biodiversity in the human-modified tropics, and present a conceptual framework that integrates a broad range of social and ecological factors that define and contextualize the possible future of tropical forest species. A growing body of research demonstrates that spatial and temporal patterns of biodiversity are the dynamic product of interacting historical and…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 45.22
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 117
Authors
7Topics & keywords
- Biodiversity
- Ecology
- Geography
- Environmental resource management
- Tropics
- Vulnerability (computing)
- Biodiversity hotspot
- Disturbance (geology)
- Life in Land