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The Atlantic Forest of South America: Spatiotemporal dynamics of the vegetation and implications for conservation [PDF]

Biological Conservation
The Atlantic Forest in South America (AF) is one of the world ’ s most diverse and threatened biodiversity hot-spots. We present a comprehensive spatiotemporal analysis of 34 years of AF landscape change between 1986 and 2020.
M. H. Vancine, R. Muylaert, B. Niebuhr, Júlia Emi de Faria Oshima, V. Tonetti, Rodrigo Bernardo, C. D. de Angelo, Marcos Reis Rosa, C. Grohmann, M. Ribeiro   +9 more
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Causes and Consequences of Large-Scale Defaunation in the Atlantic Forest

, 2021
The Atlantic Forest of South America hosts one of the world's most diverse and threatened tropical forest biota. After five centuries of European human expansion, most Atlantic Forest landscapes are archipelagos of small forest fragments surrounded by ...
M. Galetti, F. Gonçalves, Nacho Villar, Valesca B Zipparro, Claudia Cristina Paro de Paz, C. Mendes, Laís Lautenschlager, Yuri Souza, Paula Akkawi, F. Pedrosa, Leticia Bulascoschi, C. Bello, A. P. Sevá, L. Sales, Luísa Genes, F. Abra, R. Bovendorp   +16 more
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Land Use, Land Cover Change and Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture and Livestock in the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest in Brazil

Sustainability, 2022
The Amazon and the Atlantic Forest are Brazilian biomes that suffered an intense land use and land cover change, marked by the loss of native forest and expansion of agriculture and livestock.
J. G. da Silveira, S. D. de Oliveira, A. Canto, F. Leite, Fernanda Reis Cordeiro, L. Assad, Gabriela Cristina Costa Silva, Renato de Oliveira Marques, Melissa Silva Leme Dalarme, I. Ferreira, Marcela Cardoso Guilles da Conceição, R. de Aragão Ribeiro Rodrigues   +11 more
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The prey of the Harpy Eagle in its last reproductive refuges in the Atlantic Forest

Scientific Reports, 2023
The Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja) is threatened with extinction throughout its distribution in the neotropical forests. In the Atlantic Forest, deforestation has reduced the number of suitable habitats, with only a few remnant forest fragments hosting ...
Mylena Kaizer, Brener Fabres, Francisca Helena Aguiar-Silva, Tânia Margarete Sanaiotti, Alexandro Ribeiro Dias, Aureo Banhos   +5 more
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Field Test of the Propheromones of the Whitemarked Tussock Moth (WMTM) Orgyia leucostigma (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae)

Insects, 2023
The whitemarked tussock moth (WMTM), Orgyia leucostigma (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae), is an economic pest in Nova Scotia, Canada, where it undergoes periodic outbreaks defoliating several tree species of economic value, including balsam fir ...
Peter Mayo, Sumudu Deepa Abeysekera, Peter J. Silk, David I. MaGee, Gaetan Leclair, Jon Sweeney, Jeffrey Ogden   +6 more
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Turnover rates of regenerated forests challenge restoration efforts in the Brazilian Atlantic forest

Environmental Research Letters, 2022
Natural forest regeneration is a key component of global ecosystem restoration scenarios. Regenerated forests, however, may not persist and a better understanding of the drivers of forest persistence is critical to ensure the success of restoration ...
P. R. Piffer, M. Rosa, L. Tambosi, J. Metzger, M. Uriarte   +4 more
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Comparison of intercept trap fluids and aerial spore collectors to survey fungal spores

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022
Surveillance for early detection of non-native, invasive pathogens requires simple, sturdy, and easy-to-use collecting devices. In this study, we compared the fungal species detected in wet collection cups of Lindgren traps vs.
Jean A. Bérubé, Jeremy D. Allison, Kate Van Rooyen, Cory Hughes, Patrick N. Gagné, Isabelle Ochoa, Jon Sweeney   +6 more
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Social Insects of the Atlantic Forest

, 2021
Despite the outstanding diversity and ecological relevance of social insects in most terrestrial ecosystems, current knowledge of these insects in the Atlantic Forest is still somewhat dispersed in literature.
Aline Cristina Martins, Cancello, Eliana Marques, de Castro Morini, Maria Santina, Martins, Aline Cristina, de Andrade Ribeiro, Taís Mattoso, Noll, Fernando Barbosa, Maria Santina de Castro Morini, Feitosa, Rodrigo Machado, Taís Mattoso de Andrade Ribeiro, Rodrigo Machado Feitosa, Constantini, Joice Paulo, Eduardo Fernando dos Santos, dos Santos, Eduardo Fernando, Eliana Marques Cancello, Joice Paulo Constantini, Fernando Barbosa Noll   +15 more
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Tetrapod Diversity in the Atlantic Forest: Maps and Gaps

, 2021
The Atlantic Forest is a heterogeneous and complex vegetation mosaic caused by variety of climatic, geomorphological, and edaphic conditions. It has long been known that the Atlantic Forest has one of the most diversified biotas on the planet, presenting
Caroline V. Solidade, Thomé, Maria Tereza Chiarioni [UNESP], Solidade, Caroline V., de Souza Lima Figueiredo, Marcos, Weber, Marcelo M., Mariana Moncassin Vale, Marcelo M. Weber, Lorini, Maria Lucia, Cinthia Aguirre Brasileiro, Cerqueira, Rui, Maria Tereza Chiarioni Thomé, Jenkins, Clinton N., Marcos de Souza Lima Figueiredo, Carlos E. V. Grelle, Grelle, Carlos E. V., Rui Cerqueira, Clinton N. Jenkins, Vale, Mariana Moncassin, Brasileiro, Cinthia Aguirre, Maria Lucia Lorini   +19 more
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Governance lessons from the Atlantic Forest to the conservation of the Amazon

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 2023
Brazilian forests critical are for climate, water, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. The Atlantic Forest and the Amazon are among the most important tropical forests of the world but have different conservation status.
Luís Fernando Guedes Pinto, Joice Ferreira, Erika Berenguer, Marcos Rosa   +3 more
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