#defaunation — Public Fediverse posts

Trees Alone Do Not Make Forests
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2026.09.010 <-- shared 2026 paper
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https://doi.org/10.2307/1311860 <-- shared 1992 paper
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https://latinoamerica21.com/en/what-is-the-empty-forest-syndrome-and-why-it-should-concern-us/ <-- shared technical media article
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado1464 <-- shared 2024 paper
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000247 <-- shared 2019 paper
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[‘not my usual fare’, again, but fascinating work… I like reading about things beyond my ‘Ken’… P.S. NOT the hollow forest of the JRPG! 😉 ]
H/T @gunter Fischer | Global Conservation and Research Executive | Building Institutions, Partnerships & Systems for Lasting Environmental Impact
“… A forest can look intact or recovered while its biodiversity remains depleted and its ecological interactions and belowground processes remain impaired. [The authors] describe this mismatch as “hollow forest syndrome” and propose a practical framework to identify what is missing, diagnose what limits recovery, and guide restoration toward whole-forest recovery…”
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“Forest restoration is often evaluated based on tree cover, while other dimensions of ecosystem recovery remain depleted, simplified, or incompletely reassembled. [The authors] define this mismatch as ‘hollow forest syndrome’ and propose deficit profiles and an adaptive framework to diagnose recovery gaps, identify limiting processes, and guide restoration toward whole-forest recovery…”
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