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Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research
Carvalho, Raquel L.; Resende, Angelica F.; Barlow, Jos; França, Filipe M.; Moura, Mario R.; Maciel, Rafaella; Alves-Martins, Fernanda; Shutt, JackBiodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain underst...
FragSAD: A database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habit...
Chase, Jonathan M.; Liebergesell, Mario; Sagouis, Alban; May, Felix; Blowes, Shane A.; Berg, Åke; Bernard, Enrico; Brosi, Berry J.; Cadotte, Marc W.Habitat destruction is the single greatest anthropogenic threat to biodiversity. Decades of research on this issue have led to the accumulation of hundreds of data sets comparing species assemblages in larger, intact, habitats to smaller, more fragmented, habitats. Despite this, little synthesis or consensus has been achieved, primarily because of non-standardized sampling methodology and analyses of notoriousl...
Would protecting tropical forest fragments provide carbon and biodiversity cobe...
Magnago, Luiz Fernando S.; Martins, Sebastião V.; Magrach, Ainhoa; Laurance, William F.; Meira‐Neto, João Augusto A.; Simonelli, MarceloTropical forests store vast amounts of carbon and are the most biodiverse terrestrial habitats, yet they are being converted and degraded at alarming rates. Given global shortfalls in the budgets required to prevent carbon and biodiversity loss, we need to seek solutions that simultaneously address both issues. Of particular interest are carbon‐based payments under the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and ...