The breakdown of ecosystem functionality driven by deforestation in a global biodiversity hotspot

D Faria, JC Morante-Filho, J Baumgarten… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
The pace of deforestation in tropical forests has achieved unprecedented rates, requiring
effective and achievable conservation mitigations that are also easily understood by society …

Anthropogenic activities explained the difference in exotic plants invasion between protected and non-protected areas at a northern subtropics biodiversity hotspot

H Le, C Zhao, W Xu, Y Deng, Z Xie - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biological invasion poses a major threat to biodiversity and conservation efforts in protected
areas. The Greater Shennongjia Area (GSA) is one of China's 16 key areas for biodiversity …

[HTML][HTML] A “reserve” of regulating services: The importance of a remnant protected forest for human well-being in the Po delta (Italy)

M Gaglio, AN Muresan, A Sebastiani, D Cavicchi… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
During the last century the landscape of the Po delta (Italy), one of the most important
European deltaic areas, was strongly altered by extended land reclamation and land use …

Body mass determines the role of mammal species in a frugivore-large fruit interaction network in a Neotropical savanna

LGA Goebel, BD Vitorino, AVB Frota… - Journal of Tropical …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Frugivorous mammals play an important role in maintaining biodiversity and are considered
one of the main dispersers of large seeds. In this study, we describe the structure of the …

Wildfires disproportionately affected jaguars in the Pantanal

AE De Barros, RG Morato, CH Fleming… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The Pantanal wetland harbours the second largest population of jaguars in the world.
Alongside climate and land-use changes, the recent mega-fires in the Pantanal may pose a …

Best of both worlds: Combining ecological and social research to inform conservation decisions in a Neotropical biodiversity hotspot

KMPM de Barros, S Marchini, JA Bogoni… - Journal for Nature …, 2022 - Elsevier
Conservation decision is a challenging and risky task when it aims at prioritizing species or
protected areas (PAs) to prevent extinction while ensuring fair treatment of all stakeholders …

Knowledge shortfalls for titi monkey: A poorly known clade of small-bodied South American primates

JP Souza-Alves, SA Boyle, AA Barnett - Biological Conservation, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Titi monkeys (Callicebus, Cheracebus, and Plecturocebus) comprise the most
species-rich group of primates in South America. Thirty-six currently recognized species …

National parks and conservation concessions: a comparison between mammal populations in two types of tropical protected areas in Ucayali, Peru

R Bardales, M Hyde, J Gallo, V Boron - Journal of Tropical Ecology, 2023 - cambridge.org
Peru contains the second largest surface area of the Amazon biome. The Peruvian Amazon
is threatened by logging, illegal crops, mining, and agricultural expansion. While a number …

Landscape-scale forest loss shapes demographic structure of the threatened tropical palm Euterpe edulis mart.(Arecaceae)

A Leal, M Benchimol, D Faria, P Dodonov… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The expansion of human activities has led to drastic changes in the original landscapes in
which tropical forests stand, causing the loss and fragmentation of natural habitats. Both …

Integrating Habitat Availability, Permeability, and Configuration in a Model of Landscape Connectivity: The Contribution of Habitat's Site-to-Site

MM Guarenghi, A Walter, RF Dos Santos - Environmental Management, 2023 - Springer
The landscape configuration, the permeability of the matrix and the possibility of random
dispersal movement of species are essential to robust modeling of the landscape …