Point cloud of trees growing deep in the forest (above) and in fragmented forests in Central Amazonia, obtained using highresolution terrestrial laser scanning (TLS). The green area represents the ...

Forest fragmentation—the division of large, intact woodlands into smaller patches—has emerged as a critical issue in 21st-century global land cover change, with far-reaching implications for ecosystem ...

Secondary forests that have regrown naturally on land abandoned from agriculture are important in counteracting the effects of forest fragmentation across the Amazon basin, according to new findings.

In the past decade Conservation Biology has become the most influential and frequently cited journal in its field. Nature calls this title "required reading for ecologists throughout the world." The ...

A new CDC-led study identifies deforestation as a leading indicator of Ebola virus spillover. Using machine learning and two decades of satellite data, researchers found that forest loss and ...

Université de Montréal provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR. Université de Montréal provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. In my home country of Madagascar, ...

The year 2025 has been a turbulent year for wildlife conservation. The forest department had to encounter three major problems – burgeoning human–wildlife conflict (HWC), continued fragmentation of ...

Gascon, Claude, Bierregaard, Richard O., Jr., Laurance, William F., and Rankin-de Merona. 2001. "Deforestation and Forest Fragmentation in the Amazon." In Lessons ...

Bierregaard, Richard O., Jr., Laurance, William F., Gascon, Claude, Benitez-Malvido, Julieta, Fearnside, Philip M., Fonseca, Carlos R., Ganade, Gislene, Malcolm, Jay ...