Abstract: Significant human impacts on tropical forests have been considered the preserve of recent societies, linked to large-scale deforestation, extensive and intensive agriculture, resource mining, livestock grazing and urban settlement. Cumulative archaeological evidence now demonstrates, however, that Homo sapiens has actively manipulated tropical forest ecologies for at least 45,000 year...

Although ecological restoration is widely used to combat environmental degradation, very few studies have evaluated the cost-effectiveness of this approach. We examine the potential impact of forest restoration on the value of multiple ecosystem services across four dryland areas in Latin America, by estimating the net value of ecosystem service benefits under different reforestation scenarios....

Rapid 21st-century climate change may lead to large population decreases and extinction in tropical montane cloud forest species in the Andes. While prior research has focused on species migrations per se, ecotones may respond to different environmental factors than species. Even if species can migrate in response to climate change, if ecotones do not they can function as hard barriers to speci...

Wooded draws and natural prairie woodlands occupy about 1.1 percent of the northern Great Plains. While the extent of wooded draws is extremely limited, their importance and value is much greater. These unique communities are important for wildlife and livestock habitats, soil stabilization, watershed maintenance, firewood, esthetics, and species diversity (Fig. 1). An estimate of their value h...

Sloth bears (Melursus ursinus) caused the highest number of human deaths between 2001 and 2015 and ranked second compared to other wild animals in causing human casualties in the Kanha-Pench corridor area. We studied the patterns of sloth bear attacks in the region to understand the reasons for conflict. We interviewed 166 victims of sloth bear attacks which occurred between 2004 and 2016 and f...

Significative processes of conversion in the land use patterns have been verified in the State of Rio Grande do Sul due to the incorporation of forest areas during the last years. In this conception, this work aims to establish the methodological guidelines to analyze the dynamics of these patterns in the Serras do Sudeste and Campanha Meridional, which are micro regions located in the southern...

Matthew D. Dunbar, M.A. Department of Geography, May 2005 University of Kansas Woody species can rapidly invade grassland habitats that are not burned, grazed, cultivated or mowed along the prairie-forest boundary, where it has been suggested that forest expansion has occurred within the last 100 years. Considering this dynamic environment, there is a need for detailed landscape-level analysis ...

Globally, there is increasing interest in tree planting, leading to many country-level commitments reforestation. In the UK, current would achieve 17% forest cover by 2050, with highest rates of expansion expected Scotland. Forest native trees increase biodiversity, particularly woodland specialist species, and associated ecosystem services. Despite this, data on biodiversity changes over early...