Access
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
Commentary
Nature 448, 409-410 (26 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448409a; Published online 25 July 2007
Open Innovation Challenges
-
Novel Approaches to Protecting Maize from Insect Damage
The Seeker is looking for novel approaches to protecting maize from insect damage. This Challenge re...
-
Optimizing Sub-cellular Localization Tags
The Seeker is looking for methods to optimize sub-cellular localization tags for protein expression....
- More Challenges
- Powered by:
nature jobs
Manager / Sr. Manager - Business Development (Custom Synthesis)
- Syngene International
- Bangalore, Karnataka 560099 India
Graduate Student Award in Statistical Lipidomics
- University of Ottawa
- Ottawa, ON K1H8M5
Driving a wedge into the Amazon
William F. Laurance1 & Regina C. C. Luizão2
- William F. Laurance is at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancón, Republic of Panama.
- Regina C. C. Luizão is in the Department of Ecology, National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), C.P. 478, Manaus, Amazonas 69011-970, Brazil.
Abstract
Things are heating up in the Amazon as the burning season begins. In Brazil, a 30-year-old study of forest fragments is itself threatened by farming, logging and hunting, say William Laurance and Regina Luizão.
Habitat loss and fragmentation are a pervasive threat to Earth's biodiversity. For those who study such things, the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) in central Amazonia has, since 1979, been a scientific Mecca.
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS
These links to content published by NPG are automatically generated.
NEWS AND VIEWS
Ecology The forest fragment classicNature News and Views (07 May 1998)
Ice-age Amazon revisitedNature News and Views (20 Jul 1989)
