Plantation forests have been expanding in many tropical and subtropical environments. Howerver, even when they replace less wildlife friendly land uses such as pastures and annual crops, the biodiversity levels of pristine ...

En el Uruguay de estos días se dificil concebir hablar del sector forestal y su significación económica, social y ambiental sin que se culmine hablando de la instalacón de las plantas de celulosa y su problemátaica asociada.

Habitat fragmentation results in landscape configuration, which affects the species that inhabit it. As a consequence, natural habitat is replaced by different anthropogenic plantation types (e.g. pasture, agriculture, ...

Primates bark-strip trees in forest plantations worldwide, producing large economic losses. The primate and tree species involved, the spatial and temporal patterns of this problem, the effectiveness of the methods used ...

Replacement of native forests by exotic monoculture plantations is the principal driver of land change in central Chile; it reduces the richness and abundance of native mammals. The presence of shrub vegetation in mature ...

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UnitedNations (FAO), in the last decades tree plantations expanded worldwide(40% between 1990 and 2005), because of an increase in the demand ofwood and fiber (Keenan ...

The occurrence of fauna in commercial plantations is often associated with structural complexity. Through ameta-analysis, we tested whether the structural complexity of plantations could enhance bird species assemblages ...