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Community structure and diversity of tropical forest mammals: Data from a globa...
Ahumada, Jorge A.; Silva, Carlos E.F.; Gajapersad, Krisna; Hallam, Chris D.; Hurtado, Johanna; Martin, Emanuel H.; McWilliam, Alex; Mugerwa, BadruTerrestrial mammals are a key component of tropical forest communities as indicators of ecosystem health and providers of important ecosystem services. However, there is little quantitative information about how they change with local, regional and global threats. In this paper, the first standardized pantropical forest terrestrial mammal community study, we examine several aspects of terrestrial mammal species...
Limited carbon and biodiversity co-benefits for tropical forest mammals and birds
Beaudrot, Lydia H.; Kroetz, Kailin M.; Álvarez-Loayza, Patricia; Amaral, Iêda Leão do; Breuer, Thomas; Fletcher, Christine Dawn; Jansen, Patrick A.The conservation of tropical forest carbon stocks offers the opportunity to curb climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and simultaneously conserve biodiversity. However, there has been considerable debate about the extent to which carbon stock conservation will provide benefits to biodiversity in part because whether forests that contain high carbon density in their aboveground ...
Standardized Assessment of Biodiversity Trends in Tropical Forest Protected Are...
Beaudrot, Lydia H.; Ahumada, Jorge A.; O’Brien, Timothy L.; Álvarez-Loayza, Patricia; Boekee, Kelly; Campos-Arceiz, Ahimsa; Eichberg, DavidExtinction rates in the Anthropocene are three orders of magnitude higher than background and disproportionately occur in the tropics, home of half the world’s species. Despite global efforts to combat tropical species extinctions, lack of high-quality, objective information on tropical biodiversity has hampered quantitative evaluation of conservation strategies. In particular, the scarcity of population-level ...
Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests
Phillips, Oliver L.; Van Der Heijden, Geertje M.F.; Lewis, Simon L.; Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela; Aragao, L. E.O.C.; Lloyd, Jon; Malhi, Yadvinder SinghThe rich ecology of tropical forests is intimately tied to their moisture status. Multi-site syntheses can provide a macro-scale view of these linkages and their susceptibility to changing climates. Here, we report pan-tropical and regional-scale analyses of tree vulnerability to drought. We assembled available data on tropical forest tree stem mortality before, during, and after recent drought events, from 119...