What are the current trends of biodiversity in Singapore ?
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Date: 14.03.2016 Supervisor: Snell Rebecca Introduction Although natural habitat destruction through deforestation is widely recognized as one of the major reasons for the loss of biodiversity in the tropics, the lack of quantitative data concerning both the changes in biodiversity and the drivers behind this change makes it difficult to assess the real extent of decline in biodiversity due to land use changes (Sodhi et al., 2004). In contrast, Singapore’s few remaining forest patches have been relatively well studied and the drastic transformation of its land cover has been thoroughly documented. Therefore, Singapore lends itself to serve as a case study to examine the effects of human impacts (i.e. deforestation) on tropical biodiversity (Corlett, 2013).
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