By Molly Parker, on Sun et al. (2026) Home‑garden connectivity rather than tree‑cover connectivity facilitates biodiversity in fragmented tropical forest landscapes, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-026-02352-9 (full citation at the bottom of this post).  In tropical biodiverse landscapes, forest loss, fragmentation, and degradation are major drivers of biodiversity loss. Forest landscape restoration interventions, a popular strategy to address these issues, most often focus on tree planting and overlook other tree-rich systems such as home gardens (HG). This recent study in … Continue reading
