X-Nico

unusual facts about secondary forest



Lutzomyia

Deforestation, with the establishment of settlements at the periphery of primary or secondary forest, increases the risk of Leishmania transmission by creating a selection pressure for the adaptation of sand flies to these new peridomestic environments.


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Anolis podocarpus

Anolis podocarpus occurs in the upper basin of the Zamora River in southeastern Ecuador in secondary forest, montane cloud forest and evergreen forest.

Tailless fruit bat

Individuals have been found in the lowland primary forest at Poring in Sabah and Taleban in Thailand, Bario highland and secondary forest of Balui, both in Sarawak.

Tropical Parula

There its habitat is a patchy mix containing primary forest (e.g. high Iriartea deltoidea palm woods), wet premontane secondary forest dominated e.g. by Elaeagia (Rubiaceae) and with abundant epiphytes and hemiepiphytes such as Clusiaceae, former clearings overgrown with shrubs, and fresh forest edges.