Detecting anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests.
Tropical forests are beleaguered by an array of threats driven by different scales of anthropogenic perturbations, which vary in the degree to which they can be detected by remote sensing. The extent of different patterns of cryptic disturbance often far exceeds the total area deforested, as shown by two recent studies on selective logging in Amazonia. Here, we discuss different forms of disturbance in Amazonian forests and question how much of the apparently intact forest in this region remains relatively undisturbed.
Peres
Carlos A
CA
Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, NR4 7TJ. C.Peres@uea.ac.uk
Barlow
Jos
J
Laurance
William F
WF
D001938:Brazil; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D005390:Fires; D006801:Humans; D013997:Time Factors; D014197:Trees; D014329:Tropical Climate