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A degradation debt? Large-scale shifts in community composition and loss of biomass in a tropical forest fragment after 40 years of isolation

Habitat loss and fragmentation are among the biggest threats to tropical biodiversity and associated ecosystem services. We examined forest dynamics in a mid-elevation 365-ha fragment in southern Costa Rica. The fragment was isolated in the mid-1970s and belongs to the Las Cruces Biological Station....

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Autores principales: Zahawi, Rakan A., Oviedo-Brenes, Federico, Peterson, Chris J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5568379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28832611
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183133