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Monitoring population extinction risk with community science data

open access: yesJournal of Applied Ecology, Volume 62, Issue 9, Page 2133-2147, September 2025.
Our modelling framework provides a robust, computationally efficient and easy‐to‐apply tool for monitoring local persistence probability that can support global conservation efforts. This will complement the monitoring of species population viability in places where standardized monitoring is still lacking, but community science observations are common.
Orlando Acevedo‐Charry   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Avaliação do risco de extinção do minhocuçu Rhinodrilus fafner Michaelsen, 1918

open access: yesBiodiversidade Brasileira, 2012
O minhocuçu, Rhinodrillus fafner Michaelsen, 1918, é uma espécie de minhoca endêmica, conhecida de apenas um exemplar e uma localidade (Bairro de Gorduras, município de Sabará), nos arredores de Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.
George G. Brown   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Racing Amidst Change: Urbanization and Climate Alter Functional Traits and Distribution of an Amazonian Parthenogenetic Lizard

open access: yesBiotropica, Volume 57, Issue 5, September 2025.
By comparing native and neonative populations of an Amazonian lizard, we examine how urban environments and climate change impact its functional traits, while also predicting its future distribution. Our findings offer insights into how some species may adapt to human‐altered landscapes, showing that not all are negatively affected by these changes ...
Lucas Rosado Mendonça   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Limited evidence of biodiversity spillover from forest fragments into oil palm plantations in the Amazon

open access: yesJournal of Applied Ecology, Volume 62, Issue 8, Page 1939-1952, August 2025.
Converting primary forest into oil palm plantations results in substantial biodiversity losses, highlighting the urgent need to preserve the few remaining large forest fragments in the area. Measures that enhance matrix permeability are essential to conserving the evolutionary and functional integrity of Amazonian landscapes and mitigating the negative
Maira R. Cardoso   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Avaliação do risco de extinção das Urticineae das restingas do estado do Rio de Janeiro

open access: yesRodriguésia, 2014
Foram realizados o georreferenciamento e as análises de avaliação de risco de extinção seguindo os critérios e categorias da IUCN para 32 espécies de Urticineae (Cannabaceae, Ulmaceae, Urticaceae e Moraceae) ocorrentes nas restingas do estado do Rio de ...
Leandro Cardoso Pederneiras   +3 more
doaj  

Dispersal Ability Reduces Thermal Specialization and Prevents Climate‐Driven Extinctions in a Neotropical Rainforest

open access: yesGlobal Change Biology, Volume 31, Issue 8, August 2025.
We found that species with higher dispersal ability are less specialized in their temperature tolerances and more likely to persist under climate change. By analyzing more than 6 thousand species of plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates distributed in the Atlantic Rainforest, we show that more mobile species can avoid extinction by shifting locations,
Cleber J. N. Chaves   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tree traits are a stronger predictor of bee traits and species richness than taxonomic diversity

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 281-292, January 2025.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Functional traits help to understand biological diversity and the mechanism by which ecological communities are structured and how they respond to the environment. For example, the high tree species diversity within tropical forests can be grouped into a few functional ...
Adrian González‐Chaves   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana (Bertoni & Bertoni, 1901) (AVES, STRIGIDAE): OCORRÊNCIA E NIDIFICAÇÃO EM UM REFLORESTAMENTO MISTO EM BAURU, SP, BRASIL

open access: yesRevista do Instituto Florestal, 2013
O murucututu-de-barriga-amarela Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana é uma espécie endêmica da Mata Atlântica de hábitos solitários e noturnos. Apesar de ser considerada uma espécie de baixo risco de extinção, pouco se sabe sobre seu real status de conservação ...
Guilherme Fernandes Pereira   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Avaliação do risco de extinção do gato-mourisco Puma yagouaroundi (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803) no Brasil

open access: yesBiodiversidade Brasileira, 2013
Puma yagouaroundi tem ampla distribuição no Brasil, porém ocorre em baixas densidades populacionais (0,01-0,05 ind/km2). A área dos remanescentes de cada bioma brasileiro foi utilizada para estimar a população da espécie em cerca de 2.000-264.000 ...
Diego Queirolo   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Avaliação do risco de extinção do gato-palheiro Leopardus colocolo (Molina, 1782) no Brasil

open access: yesBiodiversidade Brasileira, 2013
No Brasil, Leopardus colocolo ocorre em baixa densidade nos biomas Cerrado, Pantanal e Pampa, principalmente nas áreas bem preservadas, sendo observada com mais freqüência nas Unidades de Conservação.
Diego Queirolo   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

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