Lewis, SL, Edwards, DP and Galbraith, D (2015) Increasing human dominance of tropical forests. Science, 349 (6250). pp. 827-832. ISSN 0036-8075
Abstract
Tropical forests house over half of Earth’s biodiversity and are an important influence on the climate system. These forests are experiencing escalating human influence, altering their health and the provision of important ecosystem functions and services. Impacts started with hunting and millennia-old megafaunal extinctions (Phase I), continuing via low-intensity shifting cultivation (Phase II), to today’s global integration (Phase III), dominated by intensive permanent agriculture, industrial logging, and attendant fires and fragmentation. Such ongoing pressures together with an intensification of global environmental change may severely degrade forests in the future (Phase IV, global simplification) unless new ‘development without destruction’ pathways are established alongside climate change resilient landscape designs.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Authors 2016. This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Science (349:6250) on 21st August 2016, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa9932. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > Ecology & Global Change (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 04 Oct 2016 12:01 |
Last Modified: | 15 Jan 2018 21:41 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa9932 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
Identification Number: | 10.1126/science.aaa9932 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:93312 |