The empty forest revisited

• Published in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 1223; no. 1; pp. 120 - 128
• Main Authors: Wilkie, David S., Bennett, Elizabeth L., Peres, Carlos A., Cunningham, Andrew A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.03.2011; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Animals; Biota; bushmeat; Conservation of Natural Resources; Crises; defaunation; Ecosystem; Ecosystems; Endangered & extinct species; Extinction; Extinction, Biological; Firearms - legislation & jurisprudence; Fires; Forests; Human Activities - legislation & jurisprudence; Humans; hunting; Prediction; Recreation; Regrowth; Trees - physiology; Tropical Climate; Tropical environments; tropical forest; Tropical forests; Vertebrates - physiology

Tropical forests are among the most species‐rich ecosystems on the planet. Some authors argue that predictions of a tropical forest extinction crisis based on analyses of deforestation rates are overly pessimistic since they do not take account of future agricultural abandonment as a result of rural...