| Full text | |
| Author(s): |
Hatfield, Jack H.
[1]
;
Barlow, Jos
[2]
;
Joly, Carlos A.
[3]
;
Lees, Alexander C.
[4, 5]
;
de Freitas Parruco, Celso Henrique
[6]
;
Tobias, Joseph A.
[1]
;
Orme, C. David L.
[1]
;
Banks-Leite, Cristina
[7, 1]
Total Authors: 8
|
| Affiliation: | [1] Imperial Coll London, Dept Life Sci, Grand Challenges Ecosyst & Environm, Ascot, Berks - England
[2] Univ Lancaster, Lancaster Environm Ctr, Lancaster - England
[3] Univ Estadual Campinas, Inst Biol, Dept Biol Vegetal, Campinas, SP - Brazil
[4] Cornell Univ, Cornell Lab Ornithol, Ithaca, NY - USA
[5] Manchester Metropolitan Univ, Sch Sci & Environm, Manchester, Lancs - England
[6] ES Consultoria Ambiental, Piracicaba, SP - Brazil
[7] Univ Sao Paulo, Biosci Inst, Dept Ecol, Sao Paulo, SP - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 7
|
| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Conservation Biology; v. 34, n. 2, p. 395-404, APR 2020. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 0 |
| Abstract | |
Habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation have pervasive detrimental effects on tropical forest biodiversity, but the role of the surrounding land use (i.e., matrix) in determining the severity of these impacts remains poorly understood. We surveyed bird species across an interior-edge-matrix gradient to assess the effects of matrix type on biodiversity at 49 different sites with varying levels of landscape fragmentation in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest-a highly threatened biodiversity hotspot. Both area and edge effects were more pronounced in forest patches bordering pasture matrix, whereas patches bordering Eucalyptus plantation maintained compositionally similar bird communities between the edge and the interior and exhibited reduced effects of patch size. These results suggest the type of matrix in which forest fragments are situated can explain a substantial amount of the widely reported variability in biodiversity responses to forest loss and fragmentation. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/51872-5 - ECOFOR: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in degraded and recovering Amazonian and Atlantic Forests |
| Grantee: | Carlos Alfredo Joly |
| Support Opportunities: | BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Thematic Grants |