
@article {71096,
	title = {Tree diversity and carbon storage cobenefits in tropical human-dominated landscapes},
	journal = {Conservation Letters},
	year = {2020},
	month = {01/2020},
	abstract = {<p>A lack of spatial congruence between carbon storage and biodiversity in intact forests suggests limited cobenefits of carbon-focused policies for conserving tropical biodiversity. However, whether the same applies in tropical human-dominated landscapes (HDLs) is unclear. In India{\textquoteright}s Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot, we found that while HDL forests harbor lower tree diversity and aboveground carbon stocks than relatively intact forests, positive diversity{\textendash}carbon correlations are more prevalent in HDLs. This is because anthropogenic drivers of species loss in HDLs consistently reduce carbon storing biomass volume (lower basal area), and biomass per unit volume (fewer hardwood trees). We further show, using a meta-analysis spanning multiple regions, that these patterns apply to tropical HDLs more generally. Thus, while complementary strategies are needed for securing the irreplaceable biodiversity and carbon values of intact forests, ubiquitous tropical HDLs might hold greater potential for synergizing biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation.</p>
},
	doi = {10.1111/conl.12699},
	author = {Osuri, A. M. and Machado, Siddarth and Ratnam, J. and Sankaran, M. and Ayyappan, N and Muthuramkumar, S and Parthasarathy, N and P{\'e}lissier, R and Ramesh, B R and DeFries, R and Naeem, S}
}
@article {26578,
	title = {Successional status, seed dispersal mode and overstorey species influence tree regeneration in tropical rain-forest fragments in Western Ghats, India},
	journal = {Journal of Tropical Ecology},
	volume = {33},
	year = {2017},
	month = {07/2017},
	pages = {270-284},
	abstract = {<p>The effects of fragmentation and overstorey tree diversity on tree regeneration were assessed in tropical rain forests of the Western Ghats, India. Ninety plots were sampled for saplings (1{\textendash}5 cm diameter at breast height (dbh); 5{\texttimes}5-m plots) and overstorey trees (\&gt;9.55 cm dbh; 20{\texttimes}20-m plots) within two fragments (32 ha and 18 ha) and two continuous forests. We tested the hypotheses that fragmentation and expected seed-dispersal declines (1) reduce sapling densities and species richness of all species and old-growth species, and increase recruitment of early-successional species, (2) reduce the prevalence of dispersed recruits and (3) increase influence of local overstorey on sapling densities and richness. Continuous forests and fragments had similar sapling densities and species richness overall, but density and richness of old-growth species declined by 62\% and 48\%, respectively, in fragments. Fragments had 39\% lower densities and 24\% lower richness of immigrant saplings (presumed dispersed into sites as conspecific adults were absent nearby), and immigrant densities of old-growth bird-dispersed species declined by 79\%. Sapling species richness (overall and old-growth) increased with overstorey species richness in fragments, but was unrelated to overstorey richness in continuous forests. Our results show that while forest fragments retain significant sapling diversity, losses of immigrant recruits and increased overstorey influence strengthen barriers to natural regeneration of old-growth tropical rain forests.</p>
},
	doi = {10.1017/S0266467417000219},
	author = {Osuri, Anand M and chakravarthy, Dayani and Divya Mudappa and Raman, Shankar TR and Ayyappan, N and Muthuramkumar, S and Parthasarathy, N}
}
