[HTML][HTML] Why Brazil needs its legal reserves

JP Metzger, MMC Bustamante, J Ferreira… - Perspectives in Ecology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Brazil's environmental legislation obliges private properties to retain a fixed proportion of
their total area with native vegetation, the so-called “Legal Reserves”. Those areas …

Best practice for the use of scenarios for restoration planning

JP Metzger, K Esler, C Krug, M Arias, L Tambosi… - Current Opinion in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Scenarios are important tools to facilitate the communication among scientists, practitioners,
and decision-makers, and, thus to support policy and management decisions. The use of …

Spatial restoration ecology: placing restoration in a landscape context

BL Gilby, AD Olds, RM Connolly, CJ Henderson… - Bioscience, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Researchers on conservation planning and practice have increasingly recognized and
adopted the pivotal role of landscape attributes in shaping the effectiveness of protected …

[HTML][HTML] Por que o Brasil precisa de suas Reservas Legais

JP Metzger, MMC Bustamante, J Ferreira… - Perspectives in Ecology …, 2019 - Elsevier
A legislação ambiental brasileira requer que as propriedades privadas mantenham uma
proporção de sua área coberta com vegetação nativa, as chamadas Reservas Legais …

Restoration priorities: Integrating successional states and landscape resilience in tropical dry forest compensation projects in Colombia

J Ruíz, O Vargas, N Rodríguez - Applied Geography, 2023 - Elsevier
Ecological conservation and restoration are global strategies for halting biodiversity loss and
ecosystem degradation. However, Infrastructure projects in Colombia have not yet fully …

Integrating ecological equivalence for native vegetation compensation: A methodological approach

K de Mello, AN Fendrich, C Borges-Matos, AD Brites… - Land Use Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Although offsetting schemes may avoid biodiversity loss, the implementation of these
schemes can be challenging, given the difficulty of balancing biodiversity benefits with the …

Effects of urban greenspace configuration and native vegetation on bee and wasp reproduction

KJ Turo, MM Gardiner - Conservation Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Pollinator welfare is a recognized research and policy target, and urban greenspaces have
been identified as important habitats. Yet, landscape‐scale habitat fragmentation and …

Recovery patterns in community composition of fruit‐feeding butterflies following 26 years of active forest restoration

E Korkiatupa, GM Malinga, R Nakadai… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Restoration of forests is now considered an essential tool to combat climate change and the
global biodiversity decline. However, our understanding of how animal communities recover …

A user-inspired framework and tool for restoring multifunctional landscapes: putting into practice stakeholder and scientific knowledge of landscape services

GT Duarte, M Mitchell, F Martello, EJ Gregr… - Landscape …, 2020 - Springer
Context Planning for multifunctional landscapes is a way to restore ecological processes
that benefit human well-being (ecosystem services—ES). By accounting for the effects of the …

Multi‐scale habitat selection of key frugivores predicts large‐seeded tree recruitment in tropical forest restoration

JL Reid, RA Zahawi, DA Zárrate‐Chary… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Large‐seeded, animal‐dispersed (LSAD) trees include some of the most valuable
and threatened species in the tropics, but they are chronically underrepresented in …