Special Issue: Forest Health (7 of 9) (IMAGE)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Special Issue: Forest Health (7 of 9)

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The aftermath of an oil spill in Ogoniland, southern Nigeria is shown. Oil exploration within tropical forests is expanding rapidly today. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 21, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.L. Lewis at University College London in London, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Increasing human dominance of tropical forests."

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[Credit: Simon Lewis]

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