Protected habitats aren’t enough to save endangered mammals, MSU researchers find - Study found that tropical forests near more people have fewer mammal species. It suggests that some species do not survive even when forests are protected, such as in national parks.
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Landscape-level human disturbance results in loss and contraction of mammalian populations in tropical forests
Tropical forests hold most of Earth’s biodiversity and a higher concentration of threatened mammals than other biomes. This study uses a standardized pan-tropical dataset of 239 mammal species from 37 forests across 3 continents to provide evidence of selective…