Today, Mongabay released the September issue of Tropical Conservation Science, an open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal. The issue includes 17 articles.
The papers include studies on:
- interaction between two nonindigenous species, Casuarina and Acacia, in the tropical coastal zone of south China;
- how limited seed dispersal may explain differences in forest colonization by the Japanese raisin tree, an invasive alien tree in Southern Brazil;
- A re-assessment of priority amphibian species of Peru;
- deforestation thresholds for bat populations in northeast Mexico;
- ecosystem vulnerability and policy interventions in the Morogoro region landscapes, Tanzania;
- bird assemblages in a Malagasy forest-agricultural frontier;
- robots as vectors for marine invasions and best practices for minimizing transmission of invasive species;
- dynamics of logging in Solomon Islands;
- discovery of two spotted leopards in Peninsular Malaysia;
- stressors leading to seedling mortality in the endemic Håyun lågu tree in the island of Guam;
- non-invasive genotyping of Sumatran elephants;
- measuring footprint differentiation of small and medium sized felids in the Atlantic forest of Brazil;
- range extension of the endangered Mexican cycad;
- genetic diversity of Boeseman´s Rainbowfish reared in Indonesian farms and of endangered natural populations;
- students’ perceptions of urban and rural environmental protection areas in Pernambuco, Brazil;
- impact of oil palm agriculture on Colombia’s biodiversity;
- native seed dispersers and invasion of the invasive Japanese raisin tree in southern Brazil.