Natural forest regeneration is hailed as a cost-effective way to restore biodiversity and sequester carbon. However, the fragmentation of tropical forests has restricted the movement of large birds ...

Tropical forests host an estimated 62% of global terrestrial vertebrate species on less than 20% of the Earth's land area and ...

The number of birds living in tropical forests has plummeted by up to 90 percent in just 40 years, according to new research. Conservationists described the decline as "concerning" after finding that ...

Birds that migrate to high elevations require some degree of forest connectivity to be successful, but forest in Panama -- like most places -- became increasingly fragmented in the last several ...

Christina Riehl, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will present “Biology and Conservation of Tropical Birds: Linking Life History to Ecology” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online ...

Some tropical forest birds can survive alongside humans if given a helping hand, according to a recent study by Cagan H. Sekercioglu, senior scientist at the Stanford University Center for ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Disturbed forest fragments comprise a substantial proportion of tropical landscapes, and these habitats along with associated ecotones have ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, bordered by the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in ...

The Smithsonian’s bird-friendly coffee certification program started after researchers made an unexpected correlation around ...

URBANA, Ill. – Deep in a Panamanian rain forest, bird populations have been quietly declining for 44 years. A new University of Illinois-led study shows a whopping 70% of understory bird species ...