Sentences with phrase «tropical forest fragments»
68: 1061 - 1078 Brooks, T. M., Pimm, S. L., & Oyugi, J. O. Time lag between deforestationand bird extinction in tropical forest fragments.
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Once fragmented forests are growing back together, do tropical birds follow?
Earth's tropical forests have so far been broken down into a total of some 50 million fragments.
The tropical forests of the Amazon, for example, were being fragmented by logging and burning, resulting in a patchwork of good and bad habitat.
He adds that the same applies to other endangered species of tropical tree with large fruit and seeds dispersed by birds, as evidence from other fragmented tropical forests around the world shows that seeds of this kind are dispersed only locally.
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.
It turns out the coastal tropical forest is in the worst shape, taking up only 11 percent of its original surface and having split into 245,173 fragments.
«Furthermore, recent studies suggest that fragmenting the Amazon forest could disrupt regional rainfall by breaking down a «biotic pump», in which evapotranspiration from forests creates low - pressure zones that draw in moisture - laden air from the Atlantic Ocean,» said William F. Laurance, a researcher at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, who together with Lovejoy, won the 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology for their work in the Brazilian Amazon.
Except that, according to new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, based on case studies throughout Central and South America it doesn't quite work that way: Agroecological Techniques Needed to Maintain Biodiversity Corridors Ivette Perfecto of the University of Michigan says the best way to preserve biodiversity in fragmented areas of tropical forest is to allow animals to migrate between the patches.