A new CDC-led study identifies deforestation as a leading indicator of Ebola virus spillover. Using machine learning and two decades of satellite data, researchers found that forest loss and ...

David Luther, Assistant Professor, Biology, received funding from the National Science Foundation for: "Collaborative Research: LTREB: Forest fragmentation and climate change result in understory ...

Secondary forests that have regrown naturally on land abandoned from agriculture are important in counteracting the effects of forest fragmentation across the Amazon basin, according to new findings.

Forest fragmentation—the division of large, intact woodlands into smaller patches—has emerged as a critical issue in 21st-century global land cover change, with far-reaching implications for ecosystem ...

In the past decade Conservation Biology has become the most influential and frequently cited journal in its field. Nature calls this title "required reading for ecologists throughout the world." The ...

The year 2025 has been a turbulent year for wildlife conservation. The forest department had to encounter three major problems – burgeoning human–wildlife conflict (HWC), continued fragmentation of ...

Bengaluru: The central government’s first attempt to assign asset value, condition, and ecosystem services to India’s forests hasn’t gone down well with conservators and experts who are now pointing ...

Gascon, Claude, Bierregaard, Richard O., Jr., Laurance, William F., and Rankin-de Merona. 2001. "Deforestation and Forest Fragmentation in the Amazon." In Lessons ...