Posts tagged tropical forests
Carbon Collapse in Fragmented Forests
RainforestsBill Laurancehabitat fragmentation, edge effects, tropical forests, frugivorous animals, microclimatic stresses, wind shear, treefalls, carbon emissions, carbon storage, defaunation, hunting, poaching, frugivores, trees, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Nick Haddad, William Laurance, Susan Laurance, Thomas Lovejoy, Amazon, Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, edge-related fires, surface fires, Carolina Bello, Mauro Galetti
Transforming Forest Killers Into Forest Savers
PoliticsBill LauranceClay Ogg, farm subsidies, deforestation, carbon emissions, National Center for Environmental Economics, tropical forests, subsidies, Brazil, Indonesia, REDD, E.U., conservation-compliance program, trade agreement, fertilizer, farming, peat swamp, peat, peat bog, global warming, nitrous oxide, OECD, Southeast Asia, palm oil, government subsidies, decoupled subsidies, crop prices
Why Do We Support Dumb Development?
ConservationBill Laurancedevelopment projects, stranded assets, Dutch Disease, perverse incentives, corruption, oil palm, roads, tropical forests, deforestation, dumb development, Borneo, Malasyia, Nichola Abrams, Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania, highways, potholes, erosion, rainfall
Fragmented Future: Wounded Landscapes Imperil More than Biodiversity
Infrastructure ExpansionBill Laurancehabitat fragmentation, edge effects, tropical forests, frugivorous animals, microclimatic stresses, wind shear, treefalls, carbon emissions, carbon storage, defaunation, hunting, poaching, frugivores, trees, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Nick Haddad, William Laurance, Susan Laurance, Thomas Lovejoy, Amazon, Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, edge-related fires, surface fires, Carolina Bello, Mauro Galetti
Conserving tropical forests could get us halfway to solving global warming
Climate ChangeBill LauranceBrett Byers, Rainforest Trust, Million Acre Pledge, Paris COP, COP 21, climate change, deforestation, selective logging, tropical forests, biodiversity, fossil fuels, carbon emissions, forest regeneration
The global villains and heroes of tropical forest destruction
Bill LauranceForest 500, Global Canopy Programme, deforestation, corporations, governments, investors, tropical forests, rainforests, financial institutions, banks, hedge funds, private corporations, public corporations, China, Russia
Will new supercrops feed the world and help save nature?
Bill Laurancesupercrops, oil palm, palm oil, land sparing, deforestation, tropical forests, land-use planning, land zoning, agriculture, biofuels, global food demand, food security, tropical rainforests
Are vines taking over the planet?
Bill Laurancevines, lianas, tropical forests, Amazon, carbon storage, forest carbon, carbon dioxide fertilization, tree growth, William Laurance, Stefan Schnitzer, vine infestations, positive feedbacks
Species disappearing "1000 times faster than normal"
Bill Laurancebiodiversity, biodiversity hotspots, species extinctions, unknown species, local endemics, missing species, habitat destruction, Stuart Pimm, tropical forests, endangered species, species losses
Is intensifying agriculture good or bad for nature?
Bill Lauranceagriculture, biodiversity, tropics, tropical forests, intensification, wildlife-friendly farming, yield increases, Yale Environment 360, Bill Laurance, William Laurance, human population growth, 21st century trends
We must save logged tropical forests
Bill Laurancetropical forests, logging, selective logging, biodiversity, ecosystem services, forest conversion, oil palm, slash-and-burn, conversion, logged forests
Are global forest-destroyers turning over a new leaf?
Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceAPRIL, APP, Golden Agri Resources, Wilmar, oil palm, deforestation, tropical forests, logging, wood pulp, paper pulp, plantations, Asia, Indonesia, no-deforestation pledge, free and prior informed consent
How does forest fragmentation affect birds?
Infrastructure Expansion, ConservationBill Laurancebirds, bird communities, tropical forests, habitat fragmentation, deforestation, insectivores, frugivores, ecosystem services, ripple effects, temperate forests, temperate ecosystems, global analysis, meta-analysis, extinction, fragment size
The year's top stories for tropical forests
RainforestsBill Laurancetropical forests, Malaysia, Indonesia, Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, logging, Borneo, oil palm, zero deforestation, Asian Pulp & Paper, paper pulp plantations, deforestation drivers, overhunting
