Scientific Publications
Since1978, researchers involved with BDFFP have published more than 760 scholarly articles in esteemed scientific journals. Click here for an up-to-date listing:
Amazon Biodiversity Center/Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragmentation Project
Publications List/Technical Series
Updated March 2020
Below is a tiny sample of articles published based on research at the BDFFP that have informed -- and continue to inform -- the creation of conservation and development policy.
The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation
William F. Laurance, José L.C. Camargo, Regina C.C. Luizão, et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2003
Rates of species loss from Amazonian forest fragments
Gonçalo Ferraz, Gareth J. Russell, Philip C. Stouffer, et al.
Conservation Biology, 2002
Ecosystem Decay of Amazonian Forest Fragments: a 22-Year Investigation
William F. Laurance, Thomas E. Lovejoy, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos
Lessons from Amazonia: The Ecology and Conservation of a Fragmented Forest
Richard O. Bierregaard Jr., Claude Gascon, Thomas E. Lovejoy, Rita Mesquita
Yale University Press, 2001