Summary The Brazilian Atlantic Forest hosts one of the world's most diverse and threatened
tropical forest biota. In many ways, its history of degradation describes the fate experienced …

The structure of the Atlantic Forest (AF) has been studied for almost 70 years. However, the
related existing knowledge is spread over hundreds of documents, many of them …

Background Carbon stocks and fluxes in tropical forests remain large sources of uncertainty
in the global carbon budget. Airborne lidar remote sensing is a powerful tool for estimating …

Most tropical rainforests have been defaunated of large-bodied mammals and the cascading
effects of such extirpations have been poorly studied, particularly on other animals. We used …

Abstract The Forest and Landscape Restoration movement has emerged as an approach to
reconcile biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services provisioning and human well‐being …

Long-tubed hawkmoth-pollinated species present some of the most remarkable examples of
floral specialization depending exclusively on long-tongued hawkmoths for sexual …

Background Urban forests are usually affected by several types of atmospheric
contaminants and by abnormal variations in weather conditions, thus facilitating the biotic …

Deterministic and stochastic processes combine with biotic interactions in community
assembly. Stochasticity and biotic interactions are thought to operate on fine scales, and …

Studies on the composition, richness and diversity of plant species in tropical communities
are essential for understanding relevant ecological processes and for developing …

Projects involving floristic-phytosociological surveys are becoming increasingly frequent and
is a very important tool to access the biodiversity, status of succession, biomass and carbon …