Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world's primates from extinction

A Estrada, PA Garber, S Gouveia… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Primates, represented by 521 species, are distributed across 91 countries primarily in the
Neotropic, Afrotropic, and Indo-Malayan realms. Primates inhabit a wide range of habitats …

Ecological restoration in Brazilian biomes: Identifying advances and gaps

A Guerra, LK Reis, FLG Borges, PTA Ojeda… - Forest ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The Bonn challenge aims at the restoration of 350 million hectares of degraded ladscapes
by 2030. In Brazil, the restoration goal for 2030 is 12 million hectares. Despite the great …

Cerrado deforestation threatens regional climate and water availability for agriculture and ecosystems

AA Rodrigues, MN Macedo, DV Silvério… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Brazilian Cerrado is one of the most biodiverse savannas in the world, yet 46%
of its original cover has been cleared to make way for crops and pastures. These extensive …

Hidden destruction of older forests threatens Brazil's Atlantic Forest and challenges restoration programs

MR Rosa, PHS Brancalion, R Crouzeilles… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Understanding the dynamics of native forest loss and gain is critical for biodiversity
conservation and ecosystem services, especially in regions experiencing intense forest …

Landscape dynamics and diversification of the megadiverse South American freshwater fish fauna

FAS Cassemiro, JS Albert, A Antonelli… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Landscape dynamics are widely thought to govern the tempo and mode of continental
radiations, yet the effects of river network rearrangements on dispersal and lineage …

[HTML][HTML] Why Brazil needs its legal reserves

JP Metzger, MMC Bustamante, J Ferreira… - Perspectives in Ecology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Brazil's environmental legislation obliges private properties to retain a fixed proportion of
their total area with native vegetation, the so-called “Legal Reserves”. Those areas …

Thresholds of freshwater biodiversity in response to riparian vegetation loss in the Neotropical region

RB Dala‐Corte, AS Melo, T Siqueira… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Protecting riparian vegetation around streams is vital in reducing the detrimental effects of
environmental change on freshwater ecosystems and in maintaining aquatic biodiversity …

Comparative performance of convolutional neural network, weighted and conventional support vector machine and random forest for classifying tree species using …

C Sothe, CM De Almeida, MB Schimalski… - GIScience & Remote …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The classification of tree species can significantly benefit from high spatial and spectral
information acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) associated with advanced …

Smaller human populations are neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for biodiversity conservation

AC Hughes, K Tougeron, DA Martin, F Menga… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Human population (often treated as overpopulation) has long been blamed as the main
cause of biodiversity loss. Whilst this simplistic explanation may seem convenient …

Beyond carbon: The contributions of South American tropical humid and subhumid forests to ecosystem services

LS Borma, MH Costa, HR da Rocha… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forests are recognized for their role in providing diverse ecosystem services (ESs),
with carbon uptake the best recognized. The capacity of tropical forests to provide ESs is …