Impact on animal species

I have been reading several articles and journals from different researchers, and as I understand it, the more that is cut and used by humans living around the area, the better. This leads to regrowth of vegetation and increases the soil worth. It also increases the diversity of certain species. For example, the article: Bat diversity and abundance associated with the degree of secondary succession in a tropical forest mosaic in south-eastern Mexico states, "...results strongly indicate that we need to
preserve the remaining areas of primary vegetation in landscapes that have been modified by human activities, to guarantee the persistence of the rare and habitat-specialist species that would otherwise be negatively affected." Therefore, this proves that human activities such as modification and agriculture indeed affect the diversity of species like bats or other birds that reside within certain Tropical evergreen Forests of Mexico. The research from this article was conducted in the Agua Blanca State Park out in Tabasco, Mexico. In this same location, selective logging occurred which tempered with the forest's vegetation. After humans interacted with the location and showed that agriculture did fix the logging actions, research for animal diversity was conducted showing that the agriculture did indeed diversify species more.


"These results support the intermediate disturbance hypothesis, which states that due to the different responses of species to disturbances, a mixture of different successional stages of vegetation can promote high species diversity (Connell, 1978; Sheil & Burslem, 2003). Apparently, a matrix of mature forest with patches of secondary vegetation provides more niches for bats than intact forests do."