1. How can we save forest biodiversity?
Michael Gross 
Current Biology 
Volume 26, Issue 22, Pages R1167-R1170 (November 2016)
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2. United colours: Forests with a rich mixture of species not only look more interesting, they are also more productive and can thus better protect us from climate change. (Image: Deborah Taylor.)
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3. Productivity mapped: A global study of the productivity of forests as a function of biodiversity found a strong correlation, with productivity responding more sharply to species loss the more the diversity declines. The parameter θ mapped here represents the relative change of productivity per change of species richness, so the dark blue areas will be affected most strongly by further losses of species. (Image: reproduced with permission from Science (2016) 354, 196
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4. Forest life: Biodiversity is not only found in tropical rainforests
Forest life: Biodiversity is not only found in tropical rainforests. Underappreciated biomes such as tropical seasonally dry forests also need protection. Ceiba trees, a genus found in the dry forests from Mexico to Brazil, can store water in their swollen trunks, which enables them to survive prolonged drought. (Image: Hugh Cuellar
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