Over the last 50 years, tropical forests have been exploited for timber extraction, cleared for agriculture, pasture and roads and degraded by wildfires and overhunting (Laurance & Peres, 2006; Sodhi et al., 2007). The ...

Deforestation and degradation of tropical old-growth forests has the potential to cause catastrophic species extinctions. In this review, we assess whether regenerating secondary forests (SF) can support species typically ...

In the wake of widespread loss of old-growth forests throughout the tropics, secondary forests will likely play a growing role in the conservation of forest biodiversity. We considered a complex hierarchy of factors that ...