A Rainforest Divided
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As people penetrate the Amazon interior, they build roads and clear large expanses of land. Over time, this process of deforestation creates forest fragments, islands of trees surrounded by a sea of pastures, farmland, and other degraded habitats. Laurance and his colleagues at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute are studying what happens to the forests when trees lose ground to agriculture, logging, and roads. By tracking the results of forest fragmentation, the researchers hope to assess the impacts of land-use change on forest dynamics and study how ecosystems respond.
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