Rethinking the economic costs of forest protection for 30×30
A new analysis shows that protecting connected forests to meet 30x30 goals may cost far less than previously thought, as global market responses can offset reduced timber production.
Forest fragmentation and loss intensifies droughts
As forests become more patchy, they not only lose connectivity but also see a disruption in the land-atmosphere feedbacks that help stabilize regional water cycles.
Indigenous areas provide crucial ecosystem connectivity
Indigenous territories and protected areas cover over half of the Amazon basin and sustain significantly high levels of ecosystem connectivity, making them a vital part of protected area networks.
The extent of global tropical forest degradation
More precise measurements of degradation in tropical moist forests show that edge effects, recovery times, and forest vulnerability are much greater than previously thought.
The fate of bats under climate change and habitat fragmentation
Four new research papers detail how bat biodiversity is likely to change in the future across different tropical regions.
The fate of protected areas in tropical ecosystems of the Americas
Climate change will shift habitats, and protected area networks can only remain effective if they remain connected over time.
Protecting the path for bats through Brazil’s largest savannah
The Brazilian Cerrado is the largest continuous savannah in South America and considered to be the most biodiverse savannah in the world. Included in this biodiversity is over 100 species of bats, more than 10% [...]
Coupling field surveys, forest mapping, and simulation models to understand the future of a Madagascar corridor
In spite of their popularity in landscape management, understanding how corridors function has remained challenging - particularly at the very large spatial scales over which landscape-scale conservation often occurs. This challenge stems in large part [...]
Corridors can help mitigate range shifts in Malagasy lemurs
The combination of geographical isolation, widespread deforestation, political uncertainty and incredible endemic biodiversity has always made Madagascar a conservation hotspot. It will continue to be so in the future, where climate change and human population [...]
Creating corridors in the tropics based on carbon stock
In the tropics, where aboveground biomass is high and represents a large amount of stored carbon, using carbon stock to delineate corridors represents one potential method for maintaining connectivity in the face of deforestation and [...]
Creating corridors in Rwanda
There is an urgent need for increased connectivity within natural landscapes, to maintain ecosystem processes under continued habitat loss and fragmentation. This is especially true in tropical Africa, where deforestation continues unabated under dense [...]
Shifting corridors in the Amazon
Amazon rainforests are predicted to be particularly vulnerable to future climate change. While many other biomes are expected to shift to climatic analogs, or replicates of habitat with similar abiotic conditions but in a [...]