Prehistoric pollen records show that forest dynamics were driven by more than just broad-scale climatic changes.
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Trees in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest depend heavily on primates for their survival, but agriculture and deforestation are threatening them both.
For one of Earth’s most biodiverse forests, 21,000 years of natural change pale in comparison to modern, man-made climate breakdown.
Enabling wildlife to journey across farmlands not only benefits conservation, but also people. It means bees can improve crop pollination, and seed-dispersing birds can help restore ecosystems.
Yerba mate is a wildly popular South American tea with a growing global market. Can this ‘superfood’ save Paraguay’s tropical forests, too?
Humans have never known a world without the Araucaria. But rising temperatures and changing rainfall mean that the extinction of these majestic trees may be just a generation or two away.
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Lecturer, School of Natural Sciences, University of Lincoln
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Research Fellow, Conservation Science, Deakin University
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Federal University of Lavras
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Professor & Director, QUT Centre for Environment and Society, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, School of Communication, Northern Arizona University
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Colaborador de la Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona
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Director del Centre de Recursos de Biodiversitat Animal (CRBA) de la Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona