Authors
William F Laurance, Patricia Delamônica, Susan G Laurance, Heraldo L Vasconcelos, Thomas E Lovejoy
Publication date
2000/4/20
Journal
Nature
Volume
404
Issue
6780
Pages
836-836
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Description
In tropical forests, large canopy and emergent trees are crucial sources of fruits, flowers and shelter for animal populations,. They are also reproductively dominant and strongly influence forest structure, composition, gap dynamics, hydrology and carbon storage. Here we show that forest fragmentation in central Amazonia is having a disproportionately severe effect on large trees, the loss of which will have major impacts on the rainforest ecosystem.
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