Global Hydroclimatological Teleconnections Resulting from Tropical Deforestation

Global biodiversity loss from tropical deforestation.

Tropical forests are incredibly biodiverse; they support at least two-thirds of the world’s biodiversity (1) despite covering less than 10% of Earth’s land surface (2). Unfortunately, prospects for tropical forests and the biodiversity therein are becoming increasingly bleak owing to unabated deforestation and forest alteration (3) that stem from human activities such as logging, hunting, agric...

Estimating tropical deforestation from Earth observation data

A Multinomial Logistic Model of Global Tropical Deforestation

Researchers have failed to reach on a consensus about the impact of different factors on tropical deforestation. Such failure has its origins in the problems with: deforestation data, hypothesizing the one-way effect of explanatory variables on deforestation, and estimation techniques. In this paper, these problems are dealt with. The data problem is taken care of by classifying the data on rat...

Ecology: The Tropical Deforestation Debt

Tropical deforestation is a significant cause of global carbon emissions and biodiversity loss. A new study shows that deforestation today leaves a carbon and biodiversity debt to be paid over subsequent years. This has potentially profound implications for forest conservation.

Deforestation and tropical insect extinctions.

In a study comparing historical and recent records of forest-dwelling Helictopleurus dung beetles across Madagascar, Hanski et al. (2007) reported that species not found in Madagascar-wide sampling in 2002– 2006 have experienced a significantly higher level of deforestation within their known geographical ranges than those species that were recorded. They suggested that deforestation is respons...