Social media data have been extensively used in numerous fields of science, but examples
of their use in conservation science are still very limited. In this paper, we propose a …

Global knowledge about the spatial distribution of species is orders of magnitude coarser in
resolution than other geographically-structured environmental datasets such as topography …

Recent debates on the number of plant species in the vast lowland rain forests of the
Amazon have been based largely on model estimates, neglecting published checklists …

Although Brazil is a megadiverse country and thus a conservation priority, no study has yet
quantified conservation gaps in the Brazilian protected areas (PAs) using extensive …

MaxEnt is a program for modelling species distributions from presence‐only species
records. This paper is written for ecologists and describes the MaxEnt model from a …

Protected areas are one of the main tools for halting the continuing global biodiversity
crisis,,, caused by habitat loss, fragmentation and other anthropogenic pressures …

Most methods for modeling species distributions from occurrence records require additional
data representing the range of environmental conditions in the modeled region. These data …

A comprehensive new inventory of Brazilian plants and fungi was published just in time to
meet a 2010 Convention on Biological Diversity target and offers important insights into this …

Amazonia is the most biodiverse rainforest on Earth, and the debate over how many tree
species grow there remains contentious. Here we provide a checklist of all tree species …

En los últimos años se ha generalizado una nueva herramienta que permite analizar
objetivamente los patrones espaciales de presencia de organismos: los modelos de …