Abstract:Many researchers now argue that the future of biodiversity may depend on the availability and appropriate management of humanmodified forests-HMFs (Banks-Leite et al., 2014;Chazdon, 2014;Wright & Muller-Landau, 2006). These arguments are supported by evidence from well-studied taxa, such as vertebrates and trees, which consistently shows some level of species' resilience to hab-
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