William F. Laurance

Research interests

Publications

• Is habitat fragmentation good for biodiversity?

  Biological Conservation · 2018 · 10.1016/j.biocon.2018.07.022

• The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0490-x

• World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice

  BioScience · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix125

• Global terrestrial Human Footprint maps for 1993 and 2009

  Scientific Data · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.67

• Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation

  Nature Communications · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12558

• Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems

  Science Advances · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500052

• Satellite remote sensing for applied ecologists: opportunities and challenges

  Journal of Applied Ecology · 2014 · 10.1111/1365-2664.12261

• Agricultural expansion and its impacts on tropical nature

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2014 · 10.1016/j.tree.2013.12.001

• A global strategy for road building

  Nature · 2014 · 10.1038/nature13717

• Global Decline in Large Old Trees

  Science · 2012 · 10.1126/science.1231070

• Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes ‐ eight hypotheses

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185x.2011.00216.x

• Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

  Nature · 2012 · 10.1038/nature11318

• Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

  Nature · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10425

• The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation

  Biological Conservation · 2010 · 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.09.021

• Impacts of roads and linear clearings on tropical forests

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2009 · 10.1016/j.tree.2009.06.009

• The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old‐growth Amazonian forests

  Global Change Biology · 2006 · 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01120.x

• Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns inAmazonian forest biomass

  Global Change Biology · 2004 · 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00751.x

• Ecosystem Decay of Amazonian Forest Fragments: a 22‐Year Investigation

  Conservation Biology · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.01025.x

• The Future of the Brazilian Amazon

  Science · 2001 · 10.1126/science.291.5503.438

• Matrix habitat and species richness in tropical forest remnants

  Biological Conservation · 1999 · 10.1016/s0006-3207(99)00080-4

• Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities

  Copeia · 1998 · 10.2307/1447825

• Changes in the Carbon Balance of Tropical Forests: Evidence from Long-Term Plots

  Science · 1998 · 10.1126/science.282.5388.439

• RAIN FOREST FRAGMENTATION AND THE DYNAMICS OF AMAZONIAN TREE COMMUNITIES

  Ecology · 1998 · 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[2032:rffatd]2.0.co;2

• Biomass Collapse in Amazonian Forest Fragments

  Science · 1997 · 10.1126/science.278.5340.1117

• Predicting the impacts of edge effects in fragmented habitats

  Biological Conservation · 1991 · 10.1016/0006-3207(91)90006-u

Current projects

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