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List of works by William F. Laurance

A global strategy for road building

scientific article

African development corridors intersect key protected areas

article

After “eco” comes “service”

article

Agricultural expansion and its impacts on tropical nature

scientific article

Altered Tree Communities in Undisturbed Amazonian Forests: A Consequence of Global Change?1

article

Amazon aquatic biodiversity imperiled by oil spills

article

Amazon tree dominance across forest strata

scientific article

Amazonian Tree Mortality during the 1997 El Nino Drought

article

An Amazonian rainforest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change.

scientific article

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

scientific article published on June 2015

Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity

scientific article published on 08 December 2020

Apparent environmental synergism drives the dynamics of Amazonian forest fragments

scientific article published in 2014

Are compound leaves an adaptation to seasonal drought or to rapid growth? Evidence from the Amazon rain forest

article

Are we approaching ‘peak timber’ in the tropics?

article

Author Correction: Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

scientific article

Avian ecological succession in the Amazon: A long-term case study following experimental deforestation

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Avoiding Unintended Outcomes from REDD

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

BIOFRAG - a new database for analyzing BIOdiversity responses to forest FRAGmentation.

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

Better REDD than Dead (Response from Laurance)

article

Better SAFE than sorry

article

Better governance to save rainforests

scientific article published in October 2010

Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Biodiversity and REDD at Copenhagen

scientific article

Biodiversity despite selective logging

scientific article published on 01 February 2013

Brazil's drought: beware deforestation

scientific article published on 26 March 2015

Brazil's worst mining disaster: Corporations must be compelled to pay the actual environmental costs.

scientific article

Brazilian national parks at risk

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Can Neutral Theory Predict the Responses of Amazonian Tree Communities to Forest Fragmentation?

article

Carbon emissions: Loophole in forest plan for Indonesia

scientific article published on 31 August 2011

Catastrophic Declines in Wilderness Areas Undermine Global Environment Targets

scientific article (publication date: November 2016)

Cautious optimism over Norway-Indonesia REDD pact.

scientific article published in December 2010

Challenges for forest conservation in Gabon, Central Africa

article

Changing Ecology of Tropical Forests: Evidence and Drivers

article

Changing drivers of deforestation and new opportunities for conservation

scientific article

Climate change and tropical biodiversity: a new focus ⬇️

scientific article published on October 3, 2011

Combined effects of climate change and sea-level rise project dramatic habitat loss of the globally endangered Bengal tiger in the Bangladesh Sundarbans

scientific article published on 30 January 2019

Comment on "Determination of deforestation rates of the world's humid tropical forests".

scientific article published in February 2003

Comment: Cursing condoms

article

Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa

scientific article published on 02 April 2020

Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change ⬇️

article

Conservation and Civil Strife: Two Perspectives from Central Africa

article

Conservation and the Global Infrastructure Tsunami: Disclose, Debate, Delay!

article

Conservation successes at micro-, meso- and macroscales ⬇️

scientific article published on August 6, 2011

Conservation: White possums must stay cool to survive

scientific article published in August 2014

Consistent, small effects of treefall disturbances on the composition and diversity of four Amazonian forests ⬇️

scientific article

Continental-scale governance and the hastening of loss of Australia's biodiversity.

scientific article published in December 2013

Corrigendum to “The ten Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points” [Biol. Conserv. 144 (2011) 1472–1480]

article

Cryptic destruction of India's native forests

article

Cryptic loss of India's native forests

scientific article published on 01 July 2010

Defeating the ‘resource curse’: Key priorities for conserving Papua New Guinea’s native forests

article

Degraded tropical rain forests possess valuable carbon storage opportunities in a complex, forested landscape

scientific article

Demographic and life-history correlates for Amazonian trees

article

Demographic and life-history correlates for Amazonian trees

Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences.

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

Detecting anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests

scientific article published on 29 March 2006

Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome ⬇️

scientific article

Diversity in tropical forests

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Does research help to safeguard protected areas?

scientific article

Does soil pyrogenic carbon determine plant functional traits in Amazon Basin forests? ⬇️

article

Drip-tips are Associated with Intensity of Precipitation in the Amazon Rain Forest

article

Driving a wedge into the Amazon

scientific article

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

scientific article (publication date: 6 March 2009)

Ecological Associations of Feeding Sites of Feral Pigs in the Queensland Wet Tropics

scientific article published in 1997

Ecology. Global decline in large old trees

scientific article

Economic, Socio-Political and Environmental Risks of Road Development in the Tropics.

scientific article published in October 2017

Ecosystem Decay of Amazonian Forest Fragments: a 22-Year Investigation

article

Edge disturbance drives liana abundance increase and alteration of liana-host tree interactions in tropical forest fragments.

scientific article published on 2 April 2018

Effects of Forest Fragmentation on Recruitment Patterns in Amazonian Tree Communities

article

Emerging challenges for sustainable development and forest conservation in Sarawak, Borneo

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Environmental challenges for the Belt and Road Initiative

article published in 2018

Environmental science. How green are biofuels?

scientific article

Environmental science: forests and floods

scientific article published in Nature

Environmental synergisms and extinctions of tropical species.

scientific article

Epidemic Disease and the Catastrophic Decline of Australian Rain Forest Frogs

article

Erratum to: Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges

article

Erratum to: “What we know and don’t know about Earth's missing biodiversity”

article

Erratum: Corrigendum: A global strategy for road building

scientific article published in Nature

Erratum: Corrigendum: Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

scientific article published in Nature

Estimating the Environmental Costs of Africa's Massive "Development Corridors".

scientific article

Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species. ⬇️

scientific article

Evolutionary diversity is associated with wood productivity in Amazonian forests

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

Evolutionary heritage influences Amazon tree ecology ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2016

Fast demographic traits promote high diversification rates of Amazonian trees ⬇️

scientific article

Forest edge disturbance increases rattan abundance in tropical rain forest fragments

scientific article

Forest-climate interactions in fragmented tropical landscapes

scientific article

Gender differences in science: no support for the ‘Homer Simpson Effect’ among tropical researchers ⬇️

scientific article published on April 7, 2011

Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate and topography

scientific article published in January 2024

Global terrestrial Human Footprint maps for 1993 and 2009.

scientific article published on 23 August 2016

Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota

article

Greening peace in Colombia

article

Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges

article

Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth's ecosystems

scientific article

Habitat fragmentation, variable edge effects, and the landscape-divergence hypothesis

scientific article

Harnessing carbon payments to protect biodiversity

scientific article

Have we overstated the tropical biodiversity crisis?

scientific article published on 29 September 2006

Here today, here tomorrow: Beached timber in Gabon, a persistent threat to nesting sea turtles

scholarly article by Stephen K. Pikesley et al published June 2013 in Biological Conservation

High-risk infrastructure projects pose imminent threats to forests in Indonesian Borneo

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Homage to an avant-garde conservation leader, Navjot Sodhi

scientific article published on 25 July 2011

Homing in on the ‘Homer Simpson Effect’: reply to Dugdale et al

article

How Green is 'Green' Energy?

scientific article published on 19 October 2017

How to Creatively Fragment a Landscape ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 April 1997

How to conserve the tropics as they warm ⬇️

scientific article published on December 2, 2010

Human disease hinders anti-poaching efforts in Indian nature reserves

article

Hunting: A serious and understudied threat in India, a globally significant conservation region

article

Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian tree flora

scientific article

Identifying Rising Stars in Biology: A Response to Bruna

article

Identifying critical limits in oil palm cover for the conservation of terrestrial mammals in Colombia

scientific article published on 08 September 2018

If you can’t build well, then build nothing at all

scientific article published in Nature

Impacts of roads and linear clearings on tropical forests

scientific article published on 10 September 2009

Impacts of roads, hunting, and habitat alteration on nocturnal mammals in African rainforests

scientific article published on 9 May 2008

Importance of soils, topography and geographic distance in structuring central Amazonian tree communities

article

Improving the performance of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil for nature conservation

scientific article

In Brief

article

Increasing arboreality with altitude: a novel biogeographic dimension.

scientific article published on 11 September 2013

Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots

scientific article

Inferred causes of tree mortality in fragmented and intact Amazonian forests

article

Inferred longevity of Amazonian rainforest trees based on a long-term demographic study

article

Influence of habitat, litter type, and soil invertebrates on leaf-litter decomposition in a fragmented Amazonian landscape

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

Influence of soils and topography on Amazonian tree diversity: a landscape-scale study

article

Infrastructure expansion challenges sustainable development in Papua New Guinea

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Interacting factors driving a major loss of large trees with cavities in a forest ecosystem

scientific article

Introduction

Investors can help rein in Amazon deforestation

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Is habitat fragmentation good for biodiversity?

article

Issues in Amazonian development

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

Land management strategies can increase oil palm plantation use by some terrestrial mammals in Colombia.

scientific article published on 24 May 2019

Land use: A global map for road building

scientific article published in March 2013

Land-sharing versus land-sparing logging: reconciling timber extraction with biodiversity conservation.

scientific article

Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes - eight hypotheses

scientific article

Late twentieth-century patterns and trends in Amazon tree turnover

article

Late twentieth-century trends in the biomass of Amazonian forest plots

article

Late twentieth-century trends in the structure and dynamics of South American forests

Liana cover in the canopies of rainforest trees is not predicted by local ground-based measures

scientific article published in 2019

Local Demand Drives a Bushmeat Industry in a Philippine Forest Preserve

article

Long-term changes in liana abundance and forest dynamics in undisturbed Amazonian forests

scientific article published on June 2014

Long-term dynamics of a fragmented rainforest mammal assemblage

scientific article published on 14 July 2008

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

Long-term variation in Amazon forest dynamics

article

Maintaining ecosystem function and services in logged tropical forests

scientific article

Making conservation research more relevant for conservation practitioners

article

Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 April 2014

Measuring forest changes

scientific article published on 01 April 2010

Melanistic leopards reveal their spots: Infrared camera traps provide a population density estimate of leopards in malaysia

article

Meta-analysis of the effects of forest fragmentation on interspecific interactions

scientific article published on 11 April 2014

More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia

scientific article published on 12 October 2023

Near-complete extinction of native small mammal fauna 25 years after forest fragmentation.

scientific article

New Policies for Old Trees: Averting a Global Crisis in a Keystone Ecological Structure

article

New strategies for conserving tropical forests

scientific article published on 24 July 2008

Newly discovered orangutan species requires urgent habitat protection

article

Not Everyone Wants Roads: Assessing Indigenous People’s Support for Roads in a Globally Important Tiger Conservation Landscape

scientific article published in 2018

Old trees: large and small--response

scientific article published on 01 February 2013

Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees

scientific article published in 2018

Parks for science, science for parks

scientific article

Peat fires: emissions likely to worsen

scientific article published in November 2015

Persistent effects of fragmentation on tropical rainforest canopy structure after 20 yr of isolation

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

Pervasive alteration of tree communities in undisturbed Amazonian forests

scientific article

Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests. ⬇️

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Phylogenetic diversity of Amazonian tree communities ⬇️

article

Phylogenetic impoverishment of Amazonian tree communities in an experimentally fragmented forest landscape

scientific article

Predatory corporations, failing governance, and the fate of forests in Papua New Guinea

article

Predicted trajectories of tree community change in Amazonian rainforest fragments

scientific article published in 2016

Predicting Publication Success for Biologists

article

Predictors of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

article

Preventing tropical mining disasters

scientific article published on 01 December 2015

Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

scientific article

RAIN FOREST FRAGMENTATION AND THE DYNAMICS OF AMAZONIAN TREE COMMUNITIES

article

RAIN FOREST FRAGMENTATION AND THE STRUCTURE OF AMAZONIAN LIANA COMMUNITIES

article

Rain forest fragmentation and the proliferation of successional trees

scientific article published on February 2006

Rain-forest fragmentation and the phenology of Amazonian tree communities

article

Rainforest fragmentation and the demography of the economically important palm Oenocarpus bacaba in central Amazonia

article

Rainforest fragmentation kills big trees

scientific article published in Nature

Rainforest trees respond to drought by modifying their hydraulic architecture

scientific article published on 11 December 2018

Rapid decay of tree-community composition in Amazonian forest fragments

scholarly article

Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

Reducing the global environmental impacts of rapid infrastructure expansion.

scientific article published on 05 March 2015

Reflections on the tropical deforestation crisis

article

Relationship between soils and Amazon forest biomass: a landscape-scale study

article

Remaining natural vegetation in the global biodiversity hotspots

article

Removing the abyss between conservation science and policy decisions in Brazil

scientific article published on 16 February 2017

Responses of Five Arboreal Marsupials to Recent Selective Logging in Tropical Australia

article

Road Expansion and the Fate of Africa's Tropical Forests

article

Roads to riches or ruin?

scientific article published in October 2017

Satellite remote sensing for applied ecologists: opportunities and challenges

article

Saving the Sundarbans from development

scientific article

Second thoughts on who goes where in author lists

scientific article published in Nature

Selective logging in tropical forests decreases the robustness of liana-tree interaction networks to the loss of host tree species

scientific article published in 2016

Selective‐logging and oil palm: multitaxon impacts, biodiversity indicators, and trade‐offs for conservation planning ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2014

Serious new threat to Brazilian forests

scientific article published on 01 February 2012

Shifting dynamics of climate-functional groups in old-growth Amazonian forests

article

Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation

scientific article

Slow burn: the insidious effects of surface fires on tropical forests

article

Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data. ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Switch to corn promotes Amazon deforestation

scientific article

Synergisms among fire, land use, and climate change in the Amazon

scientific article

Synthesis of the first 10 years of long-term ecological research in Amazonian Forest ecosystem – implications for conservation and management

article

TROPICAL DEFORESTATION AND GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS

article

Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

scientific article

Tapanuli orangutan endangered by Sumatran hydropower scheme

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

Terrestrial Species in Protected Areas and Community-Managed Lands in Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India

article

Terrestrial mammal responses to oil palm dominated landscapes in Colombia.

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

The 10 Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points

article

The Anthropocene

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

The Race to Name Earth's Species ⬇️

scientific article published on March 15, 2013

The SAFE index: using a threshold population target to measure relative species threat

article

The Unique Challenges of Conserving Large Old Trees

scientific article published on 19 March 2016

The above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots

article

The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project ⬇️

scientific article

The ecology, distribution, conservation and management of large old trees

scientific article

The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems.

scientific article

The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation

article

The future of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

article

The global abundance of tree palms

scientific article

The impact of meat consumption on the tropics: reply to Machovina and Feeley

scientific article published on 17 June 2014

The need to cut China's illegal timber imports

scientific article

The perils of payoff: corruption as a threat to global biodiversity

scientific article published in August 2004

The search for unknown biodiversity

scientific article

Theory meets reality: How habitat fragmentation research has transcended island biogeographic theory

article

Trans-national conservation and infrastructure development in the Heart of Borneo

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Tropical Logging and Human Invasions

article

Tropical forest fragmentation and greenhouse gas emissions

article

Tropical wildlife corridors: use of linear rainforest remnants by arboreal mammals

article

Unanticipated Effects of Stand Dynamism on Amazonian Tree Diversity

article

Up in the Clouds: Is Sustainable Use of Tropical Montane Cloud Forests Possible in Malaysia?

article

Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models. ⬇️

scientific article

Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass

article

Wanted: AI experts to map road-building boom

journal article; published in Nature on 2018-06-06

Warning signals of biodiversity collapse across gradients of tropical forest loss.

scientific article published on 26 January 2018

Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests

scientific article published in 2022

What we know and don't know about Earth's missing biodiversity

scientific article published on 10 July 2012

When bigger is better: the need for Amazonian mega-reserves

scientific article published on 28 October 2005

Where and how are roads endangering mammals in Southeast Asia's forests?

scientific article

Wildlife struggle in an increasingly noisy world

scientific article

Wildlife-snaring crisis in Asian forests

scientific article

World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice

scientific article published on 13 November 2017

Would protecting tropical forest fragments provide carbon and biodiversity cobenefits under REDD+?

scientific article published on April 2015

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