The present and future of insect biodiversity conservation in the neotropics: policy gaps and recommendations

NE Duffus, A Echeverri, L Dempewolf, JA Noriega… - Neotropical …, 2023 - Springer
Emerging evidence suggests that insect populations may be declining at local and global
scales, threatening the sustainability of the ecosystem services that insects provide. Insect …

The Caatinga region is a system and not an aggregate

HFP de Araujo, AA Garda, WAG e Silva… - Journal of Arid …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Caatinga region, one of the world's most biodiverse tropical drylands, has been recently
portrayed as an aggregate of closed biotas that do not interact despite being contiguous …

Fragmentation patterns of the Caatinga drylands

M Antongiovanni, EM Venticinque, CR Fonseca - Landscape Ecology, 2018 - Springer
Context Biodiversity is modulated by the spatial structure of the landscape. Thus, landscape
metrics can be useful indicators of biota integrity and vulnerability, hel** in conservation …

Tropical South Atlantic influence on Northeastern Brazil precipitation and ITCZ displacement during the past 2300 years

G Utida, FW Cruz, J Etourneau, I Bouloubassi… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Recent paleoclimatic studies suggest that changes in the tropical rainbelt across the Atlantic
Ocean during the past two millennia are linked to a latitudinal shift of the Intertropical …

Aridity drives plant biogeographical sub regions in the Caatinga, the largest tropical dry forest and woodland block in South America

AC Silva, AF Souza - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Our aims were to quantify and map the plant sub regions of the the Caatinga, that covers
844,453 km2 and is the largest block of seasonally dry forest in South America. We …

Drastic impoverishment of the soil seed bank in a tropical dry forest exposed to slash-and-burn agriculture

JS Bezerra, V Arroyo-Rodríguez, JM Tavares… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Forest ecosystems are increasingly threatened by unsustainable agricultural practices,
especially by those that damage their regenerative potential. This can be the case of slash …

[HTML][HTML] Ecohydrology in a Brazilian tropical dry forest: thinned vegetation impact on hydrological functions and ecosystem services

EM Andrade, MJS Guerreiro, HAQ Palácio… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Study region This study was developed in two paired catchments under a tropical dry
climate with a tropical dry forest landcover subject to vegetation management in the …

Multiple drivers of aboveground biomass in a human-modified landscape of the Caatinga dry forest

DG Souza, JC Sfair, AS de Paula, MF Barros… - Forest Ecology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Aboveground biomass is an important predictor of net primary productivity and provision of
ecosystem services such as carbon storage and food supply. However, biomass can be a …

Resprouting drives successional pathways and the resilience of Caatinga dry forest in human-modified landscapes

MF Barros, EMS Ribeiro, RS Vanderlei… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tropical forest regeneration has gained renewed interest in recent years as secondary
forests have being considered biodiversity repositories and a key source for globally …

Socioeconomic differences among resident, users and neighbour populations of a protected area in the Brazilian dry forest

MJ Specht, BA Santos, N Marshall, FPL Melo… - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Protected areas are an important strategy to safeguard biodiversity. However, if social
development is not considered, biological conservation targets may not be achieved. In this …