Jos Barlow
A5016040385- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Plant and animal studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Forest ecology and management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Environmental and biological studies
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Geography and Environmental Studies
Lancaster University
2016-2025
Universidade Federal de Lavras
2016-2023
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
2011-2022
Universidade Federal do Pará
2016-2022
Amazon (United States)
2022
National Agency for National Parks
2020
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
2019
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2016
Ecological Society of America
2016
Natural Environment Research Council
2013
Abstract Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels, influence ecosystem properties their benefits detriments people. trait data thus represent the basis for a vast area research spanning from evolutionary biology, community functional ecology, biodiversity conservation, landscape management, restoration, biogeography earth system...
Biodiversity loss from deforestation may be partly offset by the expansion of secondary forests and plantation forestry in tropics. However, our current knowledge value these habitats for biodiversity conservation is limited to very few taxa, many studies are severely confounded methodological shortcomings. We examined tropical primary, secondary, 15 taxonomic groups using a robust replicated sample design that minimized edge effects. Different taxa varied markedly their response patterns...
Tropical carbon emissions are largely derived from direct forest clearing processes. Yet, drought-induced fires are, usually, not included in national-level emission inventories. Here we examine Brazilian Amazon drought impacts on fire incidence and associated over the period 2003-2015. We show that despite a 76% decline deforestation rates past 13 years, increased by 36% during 2015 compared to preceding 12 years. The had largest ever ratio of active counts deforestation, with occurring an...
Abstract The identification of high‐performance indicator taxa that combine practical feasibility and ecological value requires an understanding the costs benefits surveying different taxa. We present a generic novel framework for identifying such taxa, illustrate our approach using large‐scale assessment 14 higher across three forest types in Brazilian Amazon, estimating both standardized survey cost biodiversity each taxon. Survey varied by orders magnitude, dung beetles birds were...
Tropical rainforests store enormous amounts of carbon, the protection which represents a vital component efforts to mitigate global climate change. Currently, tropical forest conservation, science, policies, and mitigation actions focus predominantly on reducing carbon emissions from deforestation alone. However, every year vast areas humid tropics are disturbed by selective logging, understory fires, habitat fragmentation. There is an urgent need understand effect such disturbances stocks,...
Abstract Most of the planet's diversity is concentrated in tropics, which includes many regions undergoing rapid climate change. Yet, while climate‐induced biodiversity changes are widely documented elsewhere, few studies have addressed this issue for lowland tropical ecosystems. Here we investigate whether floristic and functional composition intact Amazonian forests been changing by evaluating records from 106 long‐term inventory plots spanning 30 years. We analyse three traits that...
Summary Secondary and plantation forests are becoming increasingly widespread in the tropics. A recent meta‐analysis on impacts of land‐use change tropical forest dung beetles concluded that regenerating can be effective helping to offset species loss following deforestation. However, our understanding extent which these results generalized new locations remains very poor. We attempted overcome many design limitations characterize previous studies by collecting spatially independent beetle...
The only fully coupled land–atmosphere global climate model predicts a widespread dieback of Amazonian forest cover through reduced precipitation. Although these predictions are controversial, the structural and compositional resilience forests may also have been overestimated, as current vegetation models fail to consider potential role fire in degradation ecosystems. We examine structure composition Arapiuns River basin central Brazilian Amazon, evaluating post-fire recovery consequences...
Abstract Recent scholarship in conservation biology has pointed to the existence of a “research‐implementation” gap and proposed various solutions for overcoming it. Some these solutions, such as evidence‐based conservation, are based on assumption that exists primarily because communication problem getting reliable needed technical information decision makers. First, we identify conceptual weaknesses with this framing, supporting our arguments decades research other fields study. We then...
Thermal sensitivity of tropical trees A key uncertainty in climate change models is the thermal forests and how this value might influence carbon fluxes. Sullivan et al. measured stocks fluxes permanent forest plots distributed globally. This synthesis plot networks across climatic biogeographic gradients shows that dominated by high daytime temperatures. extreme condition depresses growth rates shortens time resides ecosystem killing under hot, dry conditions. The effect temperature worse...
Abstract Land‐cover change and ecosystem degradation may lead to biotic homogenization, yet our understanding of this phenomenon over large spatial scales different groups remains weak. We used a multi‐taxa dataset from 335 sites 36 heterogeneous landscapes in the Brazilian Amazon examine potential for landscape‐scale processes modulate cumulative effects local disturbances. Biotic homogenization was high production areas but much less disturbed regenerating forests, where levels among‐site...
Mining and dams threaten protected areas
Forest degradation in the Brazilian Amazon due to selective logging and forest fires may greatly increase human footprint beyond outright deforestation. We demonstrate a method quantify annual deforestation simultaneously across entire region for years 2000–2010 using high-resolution Landsat satellite imagery. Combining spectral mixture analysis, normalized difference fraction index, knowledge-based decision tree classification, we mapped assessed accuracy (0.97), (0.85) (0.82) with an...