Plant-Animal Impact on Amazon’s Degrading Forests

Animal-plant interactions in the Amazon, which is home to 25% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity, play a significant role in the resilience of the tropical forests. A study led by a team of Yale School of the Environment Professors and Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture affiliates will produce Amazon-wide modeling projections of how fragmentation and defaunation may impact the future trajectory of forests in the region.