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Nature 393, 23-24 (7 May 1998) | doi:10.1038/29892
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Ecology: The forest fragment classic
Stuart L. Pimm1
Twenty years ago, Thomas Lovejoy from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC engineered a unique ecological experiment from a chance alignment of human demography, science and politics. A rapid influx of people into one of the planet's most sparsely populated areas — the Amazon — was resulting in the clearance of rainforest at unprecedented rates.
- Stuart L. Pimm is in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Dabney Hall, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA.
e-mail: Email: StuartPimm@aol.com
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