Restoration and Conservation of Tropical Degraded Forest
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Biogeography and Macroecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 December 2022) | Viewed by 2496
Special Issue Editors
Interests: restoration ecology; clonal plant ecology; forest canopy biology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Tropical regions host a large variety of flora, fauna, and microbiota, representing the “hotspot” of biodiversity and ecosystem functions around the biosphere. However, the great threat of forest devastation is posed to tropical and subtropical forest throughout the world, and 2.3 million km2 of forest have been lost due to disturbance from 2001 to 2012 with 32% of forest loss occurring in tropical rainforest ecozones, where tropical dry broadleaved and coniferous forests were under very great pressure from human impacts, especially in unprotected areas. Therefore, as one of the most extraordinary means to many ends under biosphere degradation and hothouse earth pathway risk, ecological restoration and biodiversity conservation for tropical forest ecosystems is highly significant and urgently needed today.
In this Special Issue, we would like to showcase the latest studies on community reassembly and ecology restoration of degraded tropical and subtropical forest ecosystems. Additionally, we would like to highlight the conservation issues of threatened species under a plethora of scenarios (from habitat degradation to forest fragmentation from plantation, forestation to jungle, etc.). Now the Special Issue is calling for papers. You are invited to contribute to this Special Issue with your latest and most updated research. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Dr. Huazheng Lu
Dr. Liang Song
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tropics and subtropics
- rainforest
- forest devastation
- habitat degradation
- disturbance
- ecological restoration
- biodiversity conservation
- threatened species
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