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Atlantic Rainforest's Jaguars in Decline

Science, 2013
In her News Focus story “Predators in the 'hood” (20 September, p. [1332][1]), V. Morell reported that top predator populations are coming back across much of North America. Meanwhile, predators in Brazil continue to decline.
Galletti, Mauro, Eizirik, Eduardo, Beisiegel, Beatriz, Ferraz, Kátia, Cavalcanti, Sandra, Srbeck Araujo, Ana Carolina, Crawshaw, Peter, Paviolo, Agustin Javier, Galetti Jr, Pedro Manoel, Jorge, Maria Luisa, Marinho Filho, Jader, Vercilio, Ugo, Morato, Ronaldo   +12 more
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Selection of native trees for intercropping with coffee in the Atlantic Rainforest biome [PDF]

, 2010
A challenge in establishing agroforestry systems is ensuring that farmers are interested in the tree species, and are aware of how to adequately manage these species.
Bonfim, V.R., Cardoso, I.M., Carvalho, A.F., Fernandes, J.M., Garcia, F.C.P., Mendonca, E.S., Santos, A.C., Souza, H.N., de   +7 more
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Eugenia membranifolia: a long-forgotten Brazilian Atlantic rainforest Myrtaceae [PDF]

Phytotaxa, 2014
Eugenia membranifolia Niedenzu, a forgotten name in Brazilian Myrtaceae and presently known only from one isotype, is reported as the correct name for most of the gatherings until now identified as Eugenia bocainensis. We provide a detailed description of E.
Mariana De Oliveira Bunger, Fiorella Fernanda Mazine Capello, João Renato Stehmann   +2 more
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New records of Pelecinus polyturator (Drury) (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea: Pelecinidae) for Brazil

Revista Chilena de Entomología, 2020
Species of Pelecinidae are very uncommonly collected in Brazil, despite they are one of the largest and most remarkable species of Hymenoptera. Here in, we report new records of Pelecinus polyturator (Drury, 1773) for Acre, Maranhão (Amazon rainforest ...
Ana F. A. Sousa, Alexsandra C. Nascimento, Marcelo T. Tavares, Daniell R. R. Fernandes   +3 more
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Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves [PDF]

, 2018
Individual processes shaping geographical patterns of biodiversity are increasingly understood, but their complex interactions on broad spatial and temporal scales remain beyond the reach of analytical models and traditional experiments.
Cassemiro, Fernanda A. S., Coelho, Marco Túlio P, Colwell, Robert K., Diniz-Filho, José Alexandre F, Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics (IBED, FNWI), Edwards, Neil R., Gosling, William D., Holden, Philip B., Rahbek, Carsten, Rangel, Thiago F.   +9 more
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Kerteszia subgenus of Anopheles associated with the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest:current knowledge and future challenges

Malaria Journal, 2007
Background The Atlantic rainforest ecosystem, where bromeliads are abundant, provides an excellent environment for Kerteszia species, because these anophelines use the axils of those plants as larval habitat.
Sallum Maria AM, Malafronte Rosely S, Marrelli Mauro, Natal Delsio   +3 more
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Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence [PDF]

, 2017
Popular belief has it that the Bantu Expansion was a farming/language dispersal. However, there is neither conclusive archaeological nor linguistic evidence to substantiate this hypothesis, especially not for the initial spread in West-Central Africa. In
Adjanohoun, Bastin, Bellwood, Bingham, Blanchon, Blanchon, Blench, Blench, Bostoen, Bostoen, Bostoen, Bunkheti, Clist, Crane, Daeleman, de Filippo, De Grauwe, de Maret, de Rop, de Rop, de Schryver, Fontaney, Gossweiler, Greenberg, Hagendorens, Hamon, Hannan, Hubau, Hulstaert, Hulstaert, Kabinda, Koni Muluwa, Koni Muluwa, Koni Muluwa, Kouarata, Latham, Lejju, Linton, MacGaffey, Maniacky, McCann, Mouandza, Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Neumann, Pasch, Philippson, Phillipson, Raponda-Walker, Ricquier, Ricquier, Schwartz, SPIAF, Storrs, Thornell, van Everbroecke, Van Neer, Vansina, Vansina   +57 more
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Bats from the Atlantic rainforest of southern Bahia, Brazil [PDF]

Biota Neotropica, 2006
Data collected during 16 years of bat surveys (1986 to 2002) in southern Bahia, Brazil, is presented here. Bats were surveyed in 14 municipalities, in habitats that included residences, caves, forests and agricultural areas, resulting in a total of 6576 captures of 60 species from the bat families Emballonuridae (5 sp), Noctilionidae (1 sp ...
Faria, Deborah, Soares-Santos, Binael, Sampaio, Erica   +2 more
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New morphospecies of Chamaesiphon (Cyanobacteria) from Atlantic rainforest, Brazil. [PDF]

Fottea, 2011
The Atlantic rainforest is considered one of the most important hotspots of biodiversity on Earth. This great diversity results from the variation of climatic conditions (rainy, warm and cold in high mountains), what generates a unique series of rain forest ecosystems quite distinct from each other.
Célia L. Sant´Anna, Watson A. Gama, Maria Teresa P. Azevedo, Jiří Komárek   +3 more
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A potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation may stabilise eastern Amazonian rainforests

Communications Earth & Environment, 2023
Observations and models suggest that the Amazon rainforest might transition to a savanna-like state in response to anthropogenic climate and land use change.
Da Nian, Sebastian Bathiany, Maya Ben-Yami, Lana L. Blaschke, Marina Hirota, Regina R. Rodrigues, Niklas Boers   +6 more
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