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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Simulations of populations of Sapajus robustus in a fragmented landscape [PDF]
Ecological Modelling, Volume 344, 24 January 2017, Pages 38-47, 2016 The study of populations subject to the phenomenon of loss and fragmentation of habitat, transforming continuous areas into small ones, usually surrounded by anthropogenic matrices, has been the focus of many researches within the scope of conservation.
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Forecasting large-scale circulation regimes using deformable convolutional neural networks and global spatiotemporal climate data [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Classifying the state of the atmosphere into a finite number of large-scale circulation regimes is a popular way of investigating teleconnections, the predictability of severe weather events, and climate change. Here, we investigate a supervised machine learning approach based on deformable convolutional neural networks (deCNNs) and transfer learning ...
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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 ...
Eric R.D. Moise +2 more
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A CONCESSION SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC FORESTS IN “MATA ATLANTICA” DOMINIUM, BRAZIL [PDF]
Floresta e Ambiente, 2023 Political and administrative limitations are real factors for a Management System for National Forest in Brazil, but some actions needs to be achieve. The concession system is economically feasible to create and manage National Forest in Atlantic area ...
Jorge Paladino Corrêa de Lima +1 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Much evidence suggests that Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest were connected through at least three dispersion routes in the past: the Eastern route, the central route, and the Western route.
Arielli Fabrício Machado +5 more
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The “Atlantis Forest hypothesis” does not explain Atlantic Forest phylogeography [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016 Leite et al. (1) conclude that isolation according to the forest refuge hypothesis (FRH) may have had a minor, if any, role on Atlantic Forest (AF) biotic evolution based on genetic data from five mammal species. Their evidence comes from signatures of population expansion during both glacial and interglacial periods, and fragmentation of reconstructed
Fabio Raposo do Amaral +7 more
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Testing a trapping protocol for generic surveillance of wood-boring beetles in heterogeneous landscapes [PDF]
NeoBiotaBaited traps are a basic component of both specific and generic surveillance programs targeting wood-boring beetles at risk of introduction to new habitats because of global trade.
Giacomo Santoiemma +18 more
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Composition and Natural History of Snakes from Etá Farm region, Sete Barras, south-eastern Brazil [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2020 Approximately 140 snake species are known to occur in the Atlantic Forest with nearly half being endemic to this ecoregion. However, the Atlantic forest is one of the most threatened tropical ecoregions, with only 16% of its original area remaining as ...
Bruno F. Fiorillo +4 more
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Range extension of Lonchophylla peracchii (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) to Northeastern Brazil [PDF]
Check List, 2016 Lonchophylla peracchii was recently described from Rio de Janeiro Atlantic Forest samples previously assigned to either L. bokermanni Sazima, Vizotto & Taddei, 1978 or L. mordax Thomas, 1903.
Daniela Dias +2 more
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