For instance, Pimm and a small group of other scientists are now buying up cattle pastures in Brazil to try to
connect fragments of highly diverse — and highly threatened — coastal
forests.
Forest ecologist Juan Armesto of the Universidad Católica de Chile, who collaborates with Weathers, says that the country's modern coastal rain forest represents small fragments of what must have once been a contiguous forest, connected to the Amazon Basin, that changed gradually over the past 5 million to 25 million years due to the colossal upheaval that created the Andes Moun
Forest ecologist Juan Armesto of the Universidad Católica de Chile, who collaborates with Weathers, says that the country's modern coastal rain
forest represents small fragments of what must have once been a contiguous forest, connected to the Amazon Basin, that changed gradually over the past 5 million to 25 million years due to the colossal upheaval that created the Andes Moun
forest represents small
fragments of what must have once been a contiguous
forest, connected to the Amazon Basin, that changed gradually over the past 5 million to 25 million years due to the colossal upheaval that created the Andes Moun
forest,
connected to the Amazon Basin, that changed gradually over the past 5 million to 25 million years due to the colossal upheaval that created the Andes Mountains.
A UFZ team of scientists led by Andreas Huth described in Nature Communications in spring of last year that fragmentation of once
connected tropical
forest areas could increase carbon emissions worldwide by another third, as many trees die and less carbon dioxide is stored in the edge of
forest fragments.