Tropical Dry Forests

Trade‐offs between biodiversity and agriculture are moving targets in dynamic landscapes
  1. Understanding how biodiversity responds to intensifying agriculture is critical to mitigating the trade-offs between them. These …
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Tropical forest loss enhanced by large-scale land acquisitions
Tropical forests are vital for global biodiversity, carbon storage and local livelihoods, yet they are increasingly under threat from …
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Using occupancy models to assess the direct and indirect impacts of agricultural expansion on species’ populations
Land-use change is a global threat to biodiversity, but how land-use change affects species beyond the direct effect of habitat loss …
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Widespread and major losses in multiple ecosystem services as a result of agricultural expansion in the Argentine Chaco
  1. Where agriculture expands into tropical and subtropical forests, social–ecological impacts are typically strong. However, where and …
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A pivotal year for Bolivian conservation policy
As Bolivia approaches presidential elections in October 2019, the country’s environmental leadership is at stake. We discuss urgent …
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Biodiversity loss in deforestation frontiers: Linking occupancy modelling and physiological stress indicators to understand local extinctions
Tropical deforestation is a main driver of the global biodiversity crisis. Impact assessments typically focus on species’ …
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Fires scorching Bolivia's Chiquitano forest
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Thresholds in forest bird communities along woody vegetation gradients in the South American Dry Chaco
World-wide, tropical savannas and dry forests are under increasing pressure from land use. The environmental impacts of agricultural …
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Drivers of agricultural land-use change in the Argentine Pampas and Chaco regions
Agricultural expansion and intensification in South America’s dry forests and grasslands increase agricultural production, but …
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Multiscale spatial planning to maintain forest connectivity in the Argentine Chaco in the face of deforestation
Agricultural expansion threatens biodiversity due to habitat loss and fragmentation. In the Gran Chaco, a global deforestation hotspot, …
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