The Exceptional Value of Intact Forest Ecosystems 6 James E.M
1 Re-submission to Nature Ecology and Evolution as a Perspective 2 3 RE: NATECOLEVOL-17072364A-Z_R3 4 5 The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems 6 James E.M. Watson1, 2*, Tom Evans2*, Oscar Venter3, Brooke Williams1,2, Ayesha 7 Tulloch1, 2, Claire Stewart1, Ian Thompson4, Justina C. Ray5, Kris Murray6, Alvaro 8 Salazar2, Clive McAlpine2, Peter Potapov7, Joe Walston2, John Robinson2, Michael 9 Painter2, David Wilkie2, Christopher Filardi8, William F. Laurance9, Richard A. 10 Houghton10, Sean Maxwell1, Hedley Grantham1,2, Cristián Samper2, Stephanie 11 Wang2, Lars Laestadius11, Rebecca K. Runting1, Gustavo A. Silva-Chávez12, Jamison 12 Ervin13, David Lindenmayer14 13 1. School of Earth and Environmental Science, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, 14 Queensland, 4072 Australia 15 16 2. Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program, 2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 17 10460-1068, USA 18 19 3. Natural Resource and Environmental Studies Institute, University of Northern British Columbia, 20 Prince George, Canada, V2N 2M7 21 22 4. Canadian Forest Service, 1219 Queen St., Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada 23 24 5. Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, 344 Bloor St. West #204, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3AS7, 25 Canada 26 27 6. Imperial College London, The Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment and 28 Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London, UK 29 30 7. University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA 31 32 8. Division of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, 33 New York USA 10024 34 35 9. Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science (TESS) and College of Marine and 36 Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD 4878, Australia 37 38 10.
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