Environmental legislation in many countries demands the rehabilitation of degraded areas
to minimize environmental impacts. Brazilian laws require the restitution of self-sustaining …

Abstract Restoring the degraded Atlantic Forest is one of the biggest conservation
challenges in Brazil. In a biome with high human presence, understanding the potential for …

Tropical forests store large amounts of carbon and high biodiversity, but are being degraded
at alarming rates. The emerging global Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) agenda …

Shifting cultivation is a traditional land-use system to ensure livelihood in the Northern
Amazon. Here, we evaluated how intensification of shifting cultivation (SC) affects secondary …

Abstract The Atlantic rainforest of Brazil harbors outstanding species richness and levels of
endemism, representing one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. Yet, a lot is still …

Under the UN-Decade of Ecosystem Restoration and Bonn Challenge, second-growth forest
is promoted as a global solution to climate change, degradation and associated losses of …

Maintaining plant biodiversity and important ecosystem services depend on the species'
ability to survive and disperse after anthropogenic disturbance, loss of natural habitat, and …

Habitat fragmentation is considered as major threat to biodiversity worldwide. Biodiversity
can be described as taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity. However, the effect of …

Tropical forests are threatened due to forest clearing and fragmentation which lead to a
decrease in forest cover area and landscape connectivity, while also increasing edge …

As tropical cattle ranching continues to expand, successful conservation will require an
improved understanding of the relative impacts of different livestock systems and landscape …