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People and Nature, 2022 1. Restoring the degraded Atlantic Forest is one of the biggest conservation chal lenges in Brazil. In a biome with high human presence, understanding the po tential for restoration approaches, such as agroforestry, to provide benefits to smallholder ...
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Knowledge gaps hamper understanding the relationship between fragmentation and biodiversity loss: the case of Atlantic Forest fruit-feeding butterflies [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Background A key challenge for conservation biology in the Neotropics is to understand how deforestation affects biodiversity at various levels of landscape fragmentation.
Thadeu Sobral-Souza +8 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The Atlantic Forest in Brazil is a biodiversity hotspot, yet its diverse ecosystems and species are becoming increasingly threatened by habitat loss and extreme habitat fragmentation.
Flávia Freire Siqueira +5 more
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Payment for ecosystem services programs in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Effective but not enough
Land Use Policy, 2019 Payment for ecosystem services (PES) are economic incentives intended to generate conservation benefits, principally on private properties. The global portfolio of PES programs is estimated to represent an annual investment of more than USD $36 billion ...
Leandro Reverberi Tambosi +2 more
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Citizen science expanding knowledge: a new record of the lizard Heterodactylus imbricatus (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) in south-eastern Brazil [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023 Through citizen science projects, like Projeto Bromélias, community members contribute valuable data on species diversity, notably those with low detectability like the Heterodactylus imbricatus lizard. A recent observation in the State of Espírito Santo
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The Coleoptera of the Province of Prince Edward Island, Canada: 295 new records from Lindgren funnel traps and a checklist to species [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2022 The Coleoptera fauna of the province of Prince Edward Island has long been one of the most poorly known jurisdictions in Canada, with fewer than half the number of species recorded in the neighbouring provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Reginald P. Webster +2 more
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Mate choice errors may contribute to slow spread of an invasive Eurasian longhorn beetle in North America [PDF]
NeoBiota, 2022 Tetropium fuscum (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) is a Eurasian longhorn beetle and forest pest that first became invasive to Nova Scotia, Canada around 1990. In the time since its introduction, T.
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Insects, 2022 Choristoneura fumiferana (SBW) is a major defoliating pest of balsam fir and spruce in eastern North America. As part of an integrated management strategy for SBW, we evaluated the effectiveness of mating disruption as a landscape-level population ...
Lucas E. Roscoe +5 more
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Science Advances, 2021 Native forest spatiotemporal dynamics must be included into restoration programs to better estimate their expected benefits. Understanding the dynamics of native forest loss and gain is critical for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services ...
M. Rosa +8 more
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Suboptimal host tree benefits the overwintering of a destructive forest insect pest
Basic and Applied Ecology, 2023 Winter represents a stressful period for many organisms, and terrestrial insects are particularly susceptible to adverse thermal conditions. However, exposure to thermal stress and its effects on insect survival and performance can be modulated by ...
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