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Have we overstated the tropical biodiversity crisis?William F Laurance
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 2072, Balboa, Panama
Trends Ecol Evol 22:65-70. 2007..Here, I summarize this controversy and describe how the debate is stimulating a serious examination of the causes and biological consequences of future tropical deforestation...
Long-term dynamics of a fragmented rainforest mammal assemblageWilliam F Laurance
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843 03092, Balboa, Ancon, Panama
Conserv Biol 22:1154-64. 2008..A combination of factors, including long-term fragmentation effects, shifts in the surrounding matrix vegetation, and recurring cyclone disturbances, appear to underlie these dynamic changes in mammal assemblages...
Rapid decay of tree-community composition in Amazonian forest fragmentsWilliam F Laurance
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado Postal 2072, Balboa, Republic of Panama
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:19010-4. 2006..These diverse changes in tree communities are likely to have wide-ranging impacts on forest architecture, canopy-gap dynamics, plant-animal interactions, and forest carbon storage...- Impacts of roads, hunting, and habitat alteration on nocturnal mammals in African rainforestsWilliam F Laurance
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843 03092, Balboa, Ancon, Panama
Conserv Biol 22:721-32. 2008.... - Impacts of roads and hunting on central African rainforest mammalsWilliam E Laurance
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 2072, Balboa, Republic of Panama
Conserv Biol 20:1251-61. 2006..Roads had the greatest impacts on large and small ungulates, with the magnitude of road avoidance increasing with local hunting pressure... - Rain forest fragmentation and the proliferation of successional treesWilliam F Laurance
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama
Ecology 87:469-82. 2006..The proliferation of fast-growing successional trees and correlated decline of old-growth trees will have important effects on species composition, forest dynamics, carbon storage, and nutrient cycling in fragmented forests... - Habitat fragmentation, variable edge effects, and the landscape-divergence hypothesisWilliam F Laurance
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama
PLoS ONE 2:e1017. 2007..This 'landscape-divergence hypothesis', if generally valid, will have key implications for biodiversity-conservation strategies and for understanding the dynamics of fragmented ecosystems... - Environmental synergisms and extinctions of tropical speciesWilliam F Laurance
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843 03092, Balboa, Ancon, Panama
Conserv Biol 23:1427-37. 2009..The perils posed by environmental synergisms highlight the need for a precautionary approach to tropical biodiversity conservation... - Forest-climate interactions in fragmented tropical landscapesWilliam F Laurance
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 2072, Balboa, Republic of Panama
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:345-52. 2004..Positive feedbacks among deforestation, regional climate change and fire could pose a serious threat for some tropical forests, but the details of such interactions are poorly understood... - Pervasive alteration of tree communities in undisturbed Amazonian forestsWilliam F Laurance
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 2072, Balboa, Republic of Panama
Nature 428:171-5. 2004..These compositional changes could have important impacts on the carbon storage, dynamics and biota of Amazonian forests... - Driving a wedge into the AmazonWilliam F Laurance
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, , Republic of Panama
Nature 448:409-10. 2007 - Environmental science. How green are biofuels?Jorn P W Scharlemann
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843 03092, Balboa, Ancon, Panama
Science 319:43-4. 2008 - The need to cut China's illegal timber importsWilliam F Laurance
Science 319:1184-5;author reply 1184-5. 2008 - Can neutral theory predict the responses of Amazonian tree communities to forest fragmentation?Benjamin Gilbert
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Am Nat 168:304-17. 2006..Overall, neutral theory accurately predicted the pace of local extinctions in fragments but consistently underestimated changes in species composition... - Comment on "Determination of deforestation rates of the world's humid tropical forests"Philip M Fearnside
Science 299:1015; author reply 1015. 2003 - Deforestation in AmazoniaWilliam F Laurance
Science 304:1109-11. 2004 - Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plotsTimothy R Baker
Max Planck Institut für Biogeochemie, Postfach 10 01 64, D 07701 Jena, Germany
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:353-65. 2004.... - Influence of habitat, litter type, and soil invertebrates on leaf-litter decomposition in a fragmented Amazonian landscapeHeraldo L Vasconcelos
Institute of Biology, Federal University of Uberlândia UFU, C P 593, 38400 902, Uberlandia, MG, Brazil
Oecologia 144:456-62. 2005.... - Diversity in tropical forestsWilliam F Laurance
Science 311:1376. 2006 - Detecting anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forestsCarlos A Peres
Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, NR4 7TJ
Trends Ecol Evol 21:227-9. 2006..Here, we discuss different forms of disturbance in Amazonian forests and question how much of the apparently intact forest in this region remains relatively undisturbed... - Issues in Amazonian developmentWilliam F Laurance
Science 295:1643-44. 2002 - Switch to corn promotes Amazon deforestationWilliam F Laurance
Science 318:1721. 2007 - Environmental science: forests and floodsWilliam F Laurance
Nature 449:409-10. 2007