Rainforest fragmentation kills big trees
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Forest fragmentation in central Amazonia is having a disproportionately negative impact on large trees. There are several reasons why large trees are unusually vulnerable in fragmented rainforests.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2000
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Pervasive alteration of tree communities in undisturbed Amazonian forests
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An attempt is made to analyze the highly nonrandom changes in dynamics and composition experienced by the forests in the central Amazonian landscape, being made on a network of 18 permanent plots. The observed compositional changes are found to have important impacts on the carbon storage, dynamics and biota of Amazonian forests.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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Effects of forest fragmentation on recruitment patterns in Amazonian tree communities
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Higher mean recruitment rates and more successional than old-growth species were found in forest fragments compared to continuous forest in central Amazonia. Mean recruitment rates were highly elevated in 1-ha fragments (224%) and moderated elevated in larger fragments of 10-100 ha (35-50%). The areas with high recruitment rates were biased toward successional families rather than old-growth families, although only about half of the trees in the study area were examined.
Publication Name: Conservation Biology
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0888-8892
Year: 1998
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