Kilonovae

BD Metzger - Living reviews in relativity, 2017 - Springer
The mergers of double neutron star (NS–NS) and black hole (BH)–NS binaries are
promising gravitational wave (GW) sources for Advanced LIGO and future GW detectors. The …

Biodiversity and conservation of the Cerrado: recent advances and old challenges

GR Colli, CR Vieira, JC Dianese - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2020 - Springer
Background Covering about 2 Mio. km 2 by the arrival of the first European settlers, the
Cerrado savannas are second in extent only to Amazonian forests amongst the South …

Land‐use change affects water recycling in Brazil's last agricultural frontier

SA Spera, GL Galford, MT Coe… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Historically, conservation‐oriented research and policy in Brazil have focused on Amazon
deforestation, but a majority of Brazil's deforestation and agricultural expansion has …

Just ten percent of the global terrestrial protected area network is structurally connected via intact land

M Ward, S Saura, B Williams… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Land free of direct anthropogenic disturbance is considered essential for achieving
biodiversity conservation outcomes but is rapidly eroding. In response, many nations are …

Biodiversity conservation gaps in the Brazilian protected areas

U Oliveira, BS Soares-Filho, AP Paglia, AD Brescovit… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Although Brazil is a megadiverse country and thus a conservation priority, no study has yet
quantified conservation gaps in the Brazilian protected areas (PAs) using extensive …

Cerrado ecoregions: A spatial framework to assess and prioritize Brazilian savanna environmental diversity for conservation

EE Sano, AA Rodrigues, ES Martins, GM Bettiol… - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Brazilian Cerrado is the second largest biome in Latin America, extending over
more than 200 million ha and hosts some of the most intensive agricultural activities for grain …

[HTML][HTML] Maldevelopment revisited: Inclusiveness and social impacts of soy expansion over Brazil's Cerrado in Matopiba

GR Lopes, MGB Lima, TNP Dos Reis - World Development, 2021 - Elsevier
Cash crops such as soy, cocoa and oil palm have expanded at great speed in developing
countries, often at the expense of customary landowners, traditional livelihoods, and …

Indirect effects of habitat loss via habitat fragmentation: A cross-taxa analysis of forest-dependent species

T Püttker, R Crouzeilles, M Almeida-Gomes… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent studies suggest that habitat amount is the main determinant of species richness,
whereas habitat fragmentation has weak and mostly positive effects. Here, we challenge …

[HTML][HTML] Potential geographical distribution of the edangred plant Isoetes under human activities using MaxEnt and GARP

J Yang, Y Huang, X Jiang, H Chen, M Liu… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Isoetes L. is a relict genus of Isoetaceae which is of great value to study the systematic
evolution of ferns and the flora of East Asia. Due to the impact of human activities on aquatic …

The residual nature of protected areas in Brazil

RRS Vieira, RL Pressey, R Loyola - Biological Conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
In recent decades, the number and extent of protected areas (PAs) have increased,
covering> 10% of the Earth. However, protection tends to be residual because PAs have …