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A global strategy for road building

scientific article

A pantropical analysis of the impacts of forest degradation and conversion on local temperature

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

An ant-plant by-product mutualism is robust to selective logging of rain forest and conversion to oil palm plantation

scientific article published on 10 January 2015

Asking the Wrong Question in Explaining Tropical Diversity

scientific article published in 2021

Asking the right questions in explaining tropical diversity: response to Cannon and Lerdau

scientific article published in 2022

Assessing trophic position from nitrogen isotope ratios: effective calibration against spatially varying baselines

scientific article published on 24 February 2012

Author Correction: Global loss of climate connectivity in tropical forests

correction of a scholarly article

Author Correction: The environmental costs and benefits of high-yield farming

correction of a scholarly article

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

scientific article

Biodiversity despite selective logging

scientific article published on 01 February 2013

Can the failure to punish promote cheating in mutualism?

article published in 2010

Carbon emissions: Loophole in forest plan for Indonesia

scientific article published on 31 August 2011

Carbon payments can cost-effectively improve logging sustainability in the Amazon

scientific article published in July 2022

Cheap carbon and biodiversity co-benefits from forest regeneration in a hotspot of endemism

scientific article published in 2014

Climate change mitigation: potential benefits and pitfalls of enhanced rock weathering in tropical agriculture

scientific article

Combined impacts of deforestation and wildlife trade on tropical biodiversity are severely underestimated

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Combining Sentinel-1 and Landsat 8 Does Not Improve Classification Accuracy of Tropical Selective Logging

scientific article published in 2022

Conservation of Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Debugging diversity - a pan-continental exploration of the potential of terrestrial blood-feeding leeches as a vertebrate monitoring tool

scientific article published on 05 July 2018

Degraded lands worth protecting: the biological importance of Southeast Asia's repeatedly logged forests.

scientific article published on 4 August 2010

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

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

Distance and density dependence in two native Bornean dipterocarp species

scientific article published in 2023

Diversity and host associations of <i>Myrsidea</i> chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) in the tropical rainforest of Malaysian Borneo

scientific article published on 14 November 2020

Ecosystem‐based management of coral reefs under climate change.

scientific article published on 20 May 2018

Effect of scale on trait predictors of species responses to agriculture

scientific article

Effects of landscape configuration and composition on phylogenetic diversity of trees in a highly fragmented tropical forest

scientific article published on 08 September 2016

Erratum: Corrigendum: A global strategy for road building

scientific article published in Nature

Extreme thermal heterogeneity in structurally complex tropical rain forests

scholarly article by Brett R. Scheffers et al published 26 September 2016 in Biotropica

Functional attributes change but functional richness is unchanged after fragmentation of Brazilian Atlantic forests

scientific article published on 11 December 2013

Global biogeographic patterns of avian morphological diversity

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Global loss of climate connectivity in tropical forests

scientific article published in 2019

Global wildlife trade across the tree of life

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Green labelling being misused

scientific article published on 13 July 2011

High Conservation Value or high confusion value? Sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation in the tropics

scientific article published on 04 November 2011

High sensitivity of tropical forest birds to deforestation at lower altitudes

scientific article published in 2022

Impacts of intensive logging on the trophic organisation of ant communities in a biodiversity hotspot

scientific article

Impacts of selective logging on insectivorous birds in Borneo: The importance of trophic position, body size and foraging height

article by Keith C. Hamer et al published August 2015 in Biological Conservation

Impacts of selective logging on the oxidative status of tropical understory birds

scientific article published on 14 June 2020

Impacts of tropical forest disturbance on species vital rates

scientific article published on 27 September 2018

Impacts of wildlife trade on terrestrial biodiversity

scientific article published on 17 February 2021

Improved timber harvest techniques maintain biodiversity in tropical forests

scientific article

Incorporating intraspecific trait variation into functional diversity: Impacts of selective logging on birds in Borneo

article published in 2017

Invasive alien acacias rapidly stock carbon, but threaten biodiversity recovery in young second-growth forests

scientific article published in 2022

Land-Sparing Agriculture Best Protects Avian Phylogenetic Diversity

scientific article

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

scientific article

Land-sparing agriculture sustains higher levels of avian functional diversity than land sharing

scientific article published on 13 March 2019

Limited contributions of plant pathogens to density-dependent seedling mortality of mast fruiting Bornean trees

scientific article published on 25 October 2020

Logging cuts the functional importance of invertebrates in tropical rainforest

scientific article

Maintaining ecosystem function and services in logged tropical forests

scientific article

Managing Neotropical oil palm expansion to retain phylogenetic diversity

scientific article published in 2015

Mass-abundance scaling in avian communities is maintained after tropical selective logging

scientific article published on 29 February 2020

Microhabitats in the tropics buffer temperature in a globally coherent manner.

scientific article

Microhabitats reduce animal's exposure to climate extremes.

scientific article

Minimizing the biodiversity impact of Neotropical oil palm development.

scientific article

Navjot's nightmare revisited: logging, agriculture, and biodiversity in Southeast Asia

scientific article

Neutral‐based processes overrule niche‐based processes in shaping tropical montane orchid communities across spatial scales

scientific article published in 2023

Optimizing carbon storage and biodiversity protection in tropical agricultural landscapes.

scientific article

Phylogenetic and Trait-Based Prediction of Extinction Risk for Data-Deficient Amphibians

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Physiological and immunological responses of birds and mammals to forest degradation: A meta-analysis

scientific article published on 12 June 2018

Preventing tropical mining disasters

scientific article published on 01 December 2015

Protection in an ant–plant mutualism: an adaptation or a sensory trap?

article

Public goods, public services and by-product mutualism in an ant-fern symbiosis

article

Quaternary land bridges have not been universal conduits of gene flow

scientific article published on 16 June 2020

Reduced-impact logging and biodiversity conservation: a case study from Borneo.

scientific article

Rehabilitation of Logged Rain Forests: Avifaunal Composition, Habitat Structure, and Implications for Biodiversity-Friendly REDD+

scientific article published on 01 December 2010

Reliable, verifiable and efficient monitoring of biodiversity via metabarcoding

scientific article

Removing climbers more than doubles tree growth and biomass in degraded tropical forests

scientific article published in 2022

Retaining biodiversity in intensive farmland: epiphyte removal in oil palm plantations does not affect yield

scientific article published on 29 April 2015

Riparian reserves help protect forest bird communities in oil palm dominated landscapes

article by Simon L. Mitchell et al published 6 August 2018 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Riparian reserves protect butterfly communities in selectively logged tropical forest

scientific article published on 21 March 2022

Secondary forest fragments offer important carbon and biodiversity cobenefits

scientific article published on 02 November 2019

Selection for protection in an ant-plant mutualism: host sanctions, host modularity, and the principal-agent game

scientific article published in March 2006

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

Severe human pressures in the Sundaland biodiversity hotspot

scientific article published in 2020

Severity of deforestation mediates biotic homogenisation in an island archipelago

scientific article published on 18 May 2022

Sparing land for secondary forest regeneration protects more tropical biodiversity than land sharing in cattle farming landscapes

scientific article published on 21 January 2021

Spatial replication and habitat context matters for assessments of tropical biodiversity using acoustic indices

scientific article published in 2020

Sustainable management in crop monocultures: the impact of retaining forest on oil palm yield

scientific article

The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches

scientific article published on 17 March 2022

The conservation value of South East Asia's highly degraded forests: evidence from leaf-litter ants

scientific article

The effects of restoring logged tropical forests on avian phylogenetic and functional diversity

scientific article

The environmental costs and benefits of high-yield farming

scholarly article

The evolution of intermediate castration virulence and ant coexistence in a spatially structured environment.

scientific article published on 23 September 2009

The high costs of conserving Southeast Asia's lowland rainforests

article

The high value of logged tropical forests: lessons from northern Borneo

article

The impact of secondary forest regeneration on ground-dwelling ant communities in the Tropical Andes

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

The roles of sensory traps in the origin, maintenance, and breakdown of mutualism

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

The search for unknown biodiversity

scientific article

The value of rehabilitating logged rainforest for birds

scientific article

Thermal tolerance and the importance of microhabitats for Andean frogs in the context of land-use and climate change

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Thermally buffered microhabitats recovery in tropical secondary forests following land abandonment

Trait-dependent declines of species following conversion of rain forest to oil palm plantations

article

Trophic flexibility and the persistence of understory birds in intensively logged rainforest

scientific article

Tropical forests are thermally buffered despite intensive selective logging

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

Tropical land-use change alters trait-based community assembly rules for dung beetles and birds

scientific article published on 08 February 2021

Underestimating the costs of conservation in Southeast Asia

article

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

scientific article published on April 2015