Indigenous Peoples have shaped and managed vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest for
millennia. However, evaluations of how much biodiversity is governed under Indigenous …

New World bats are heavily affected by the biophysical setting shaped by elevation and
latitude. This study seeks to understand the patterns of bat species diversity across …

The object of curiosity and admiration of scientists and conservationists, the Brazilian
Atlantic Forest is scientifically explored in this book. Over the 23 chapters written by 149 …

Abstract The Atlantic Forest, the second largest forest in South America and one of the most
biodiverse biomes in the world, is also one of the most threatened and important for …

Abstract The Atlantic Forest is a heterogeneous and complex vegetation mosaic caused by
variety of climatic, geomorphological, and edaphic conditions. It has long been known that …

Abstract The Atlantic Forest of South America hosts one of the world's most diverse and
threatened tropical forest biota. After five centuries of European human expansion, most …

Aim Forest fragmentation is among the principal causes of global biodiversity loss, yet how it
affects mutualistic interactions between plants and animals at large spatial scale is poorly …

Epiphytes are hyper‐diverse and one of the frequently undervalued life forms in plant
surveys and biodiversity inventories. Epiphytes of the Atlantic Forest, one of the most …

Aim Environmental and spatial factors are broadly recognized as important predictors of
beta diversity patterns. However, the scale at which beta diversity patterns are evaluated will …

We present an overview of the mammal fauna in the Pernambuco Endemism Center (PEC),
addressing diversity and biogeographic patterns, collection effort trends, main threats, and …