Brittany T. Trew

Oct 8, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Brittany T. Trew |Felicity A Edwards |Graeme M. Buchanan |Fiona Sanderson

AbstractSite-based protection is a cornerstone of 21st century conservation and a core component of global biodiversity conservation targets. However, loss of tropical forests, the most biodiverse of habitats, is a major threat to such sites. Here, we predict near-future deforestation risk in 113 Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) - sites of objectively defined global conservation importance - in the Guinean Forest biodiversity hotspot and identify those factors associated with loss.

Jun 3, 2024 | nature.com | Brittany T. Trew |David Edwards |Alexander Lees |Regan Early |Martin Svátek |Radim Matula | +6 more

AbstractTropical forest biodiversity is potentially at high risk from climate change, but most species reside within or below the canopy, where they are buffered from extreme temperatures. Here, by modelling the hourly below-canopy climate conditions of 300,000 tropical forest locations globally between 1990 and 2019, we show that recent small increases in below-canopy temperature (<1 °C) have led to highly novel temperature regimes across most of the tropics.