| Titre : | Biological Conservation 151(1) - JUL 2012 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Chase D. Mendenhall, Auteur ;
Gretchen C. Daily, Auteur ;
Paul R. Ehrlich, Auteur
Quantifying the magnitude of human-induced biodiversity loss is a critical yet daunting challenge. Recently, species extinction rate estimates using island biogeography theory have once again been called into question. Here we highlight two of t[...]
Article
Philip Shearman, Auteur ;
Jane Bryan, Auteur ;
William F. Laurance, Auteur
Over the past few decades, tropical timber production in many Asia-Pacific countries has been akin to the symmetric logistic distribution curve, or 'Hubbert Curve', observed in the exploitation of many non-renewable resources a rapid increase in[...]
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Long-term, locally-based biodiversity monitoring programs are essential for understanding and mitigating the effects of global change on tropical biodiversity while providing capacity-building, environmental education, and public outreach. Howev[...]
Article
Kelvin S.-H. Peh, Auteur ;
Simon L. Lewis, Auteur
Studies have shown that increasing diversity has a positive influence on many ecosystem functions and services, for example, biomass productivity. However, most diversity-functioning studies have derived their conclusions (1) from considering on[...]
Article
David B. Lindenmayer, Auteur ;
William F. Laurance, Auteur
Logging is one of the most important forms of native-forest exploitation and can have substantial impacts on biodiversity and key ecosystem services. Here we briefly contrast logging operations in temperate and tropical forests and then highligh[...]
Article
Barry W. Brook, Auteur ;
Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Auteur
The conservation challenges facing mega-biodiverse South and Southeast Asia in the 21st century are enormous. For millennia, much of the habitat of these regions was only lightly modified by human endeavour, yet now it is experiencing rampant de[...]
Article
Teja Tscharntke, Auteur ;
Yann Clough, Auteur ;
Thomas C. Wanger, Auteur ;
Louise Jackson, Auteur ;
Iris Motzke, Auteur ;
Ivette Perfecto, Auteur ;
John Vandermeer, Auteur ;
Anthony Whitbread, Auteur
Under the current scenario of rapid human population increase, achieving efficient and productive agricultural land use while conserving biodiversity is a global challenge. There is an ongoing debate whether land for nature and for production sh[...]
Article
David Bickford, Auteur ;
Mary Rose C. Posa, Auteur ;
Lan Qie, Auteur ;
Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz, Auteur ;
Enoka P. Kudavidanage, Auteur
The unsustainable exploitation of nature by humanity has pushed many of the earth's ecological systems to the brink of collapse. To help bring about the societal changes needed to reverse this trend, conservation biologists need to be more proac[...]
Article
Carlos A. Peres, Auteur ;
Mauricio Schneider, Auteur
Agricultural encroachment into low-governance forest frontiers including vast tracts of hitherto unclaimed public lands and indigenous territories represents one of the most abrupt land-use transitions in tropical countries. This often results f[...]
Article
David P. Edwards, Auteur ;
Susan G. Laurance, Auteur
The expansion of agricultural plantations at the expense of forest drives dramatic losses of biodiversity and carbon. Consumers are now demanding sustainability in tropical agriculture and producers are responding with questionable certification[...]
Article
David P. Edwards, Auteur ;
Lian Pin Koh, Auteur ;
William F. Laurance, Auteur
Indonesia and Norway have entered into a landmark deal that will pay Indonesia up to US$1 billion for forest-conservation activities aimed at slowing rampant deforestation and resulting greenhouse gas emissions. A recent Presidential Instruction[...]
Article
Jos Barlow, Auteur ;
Toby A. Gardner, Auteur ;
Alexander C. Lees, Auteur ;
Luke Parry, Auteur ;
Carlos A. Peres, Auteur
Archeologists, paleoecologists and anthropologists argue that ecologists need to give greater consideration to the pre-historical influence of humans in shaping the current structure and composition of tropical forests. We examine these argument[...]
Article
As a broad scientific consensus in support of anthropogenic global warming emerged in the 1980s. a few biologists were quick to make predictions of the likely impacts in the tropics. Most conservation biologists, however, saw climate change as a[...]
Article
William F. Laurance, Auteur ;
Lian Pin Koh, Auteur
Article
Ian G. Warkentin, Auteur ;
Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Auteur
Navjot Sodhi is best known for his advancement of tropical ecology and conservation science; however, his research origins were in fact based in the boreal forest ecosystem of Canada. Ironically, the less-studied ecosystems of the tropics have r[...]
Article
William F. Laurance, Auteur ;
Titus Kakul, Auteur ;
Memory Tom, Auteur ;
Reza Wahya, Auteur ;
Susan G. Laurance, Auteur
The native forests of Papua New Guinea (PNG) are some of the most biologically and culturally diverse ecosystems on Earth, and are a major stock of terrestrial carbon. These forests are being altered at a rapid rate, especially by industrial log[...]
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Lian Pin Koh, Auteur ;
Tien Ming Lee, Auteur
Navjot Sodhi and we often discussed how growing global demands for food are placing increasing pressures on tropical forests. Although more consumers are demanding for 'greener' products associated with sustainable production, green consumerism [...]
