Roger R.B. Leakey, Zac Tchoundjeu, Kate Schreckenberg, Sheona E. Shackleton and Charlie M. Shackleton Agroforestry and Novel Crops Unit, School of Tropical Biology, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia; 2World Agroforestry Centre, BP 2067, Yaoundé, Cameroon; Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JD, England; Department of Envi...

Forests are biologically diverse systems, representing some of the richest biological areas on Earth. They offer a variety of habitats for plants, animals and micro-organisms. However, forest biodiversity is increasingly threatened as a result of deforestation, fragmentation, climate change and other stressors. Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or on t...

Forests are biologically diverse systems, representing some of the richest biological areas on Earth. They offer a variety of habitats for plants, animals and micro-organisms. However, forest biodiversity is increasingly threatened as a result of deforestation, fragmentation, climate change and other stressors. Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or on t...