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Protected areas do not reduce the fragmentation rate.

Protected areas do not promote forest regrowth.

High concentration of rural settlements promote forest loss.

Reserves in contexts with greater non-farm occupation endure lower forest loss.

Local non-farm economic activities may help to conserve forest cover in protected areas.

Science needs diversity to be more innovative and creative but women are still greatly underrepresented in many fields.

Brazilian female ecologists get half the amount of grant funding and higher scholarship rejections compared to men.

In Brazil, Ecology Post-Graduate programs show a strong decrease in women presence at the highest academic levels.

Lower access to project funding, maternity, implicit bias, harassment, no role models can lead to women leaving academia.

Involving more women and more people from underrepresented groups will lead to better science and conservation practices.

Fires affect the ant communities in the Brazilian Pantanal wetland.

Flooding, at a local scale, does not interact with fire to determine ant community structure.

Ant communities were resilient, and the observed effect of fire on their structure decreased after one year and was not noticed after four years.

Ant community recovery takes years, and there is a need for long intervals between fires to maintain the original ant community structure.

The observed increase in fire frequency can be detrimental to the ant community structure recovery, threatening the conservation of ants.

Two genetic populations (inland and coastal) were found, reflecting the two major forested blocks.

Population genetic structure was better explained by elevation.

Low effective population size was found in both genetic populations.

The largest rainforest continuum is not totally permeable to gene flow of large mammals.

Lowland tapir conservation efforts should be taken even for populations living in large continuous areas.

Conserving ∼80% of the Brazilian Amazon is still feasible

Conservation areas are essential for a new regional development model

The cost of establishing.1.3 million km2 of new conservation areas is USD 1.0–1.6 billion

The annual cost of 3.5 million km2 of conservation areas is USD 1.7–2.8 billion

A new ambitious, decentralized, and agile fund mechanism is required

Phylogenetic diversity is lower in rehabilitating minelands than at reference sites.

Phylogenetic structure switches from clustering to overdispersion with stand age.

Phylogenetic overdispersion at older sites indicates the recovery of biological interactions.

Phylogenetic measures are associated with the environmental quality of rehabilitating sites.

Long-term monitoring of different drivers of changes increases the effectiveness of protected areas.

Long-term Ecological Research Program helps detecting complex environmental changes.

The effects of disturbances on biodiversity and ecosystems were explored over 22 years in the central Cerrado.

Even in Protected Areas, changes in surroundings affect biodiversity and ecosystems.

Significant ecological changes were detected in responses to long-term stressors.

We reviewed the use of network science in sustainable agriculture.

Network science can be used to understand, harness and restore ecological processes in agricultural systems.

Social, economic and ecological aspects of agriculture can be incorporated using novel methods.

Agricultural systems can be managed using a network-based framework.

The abundance-suitability relationship differs between protected and unprotected populations of Euterpe edulis.

The magnitude and direction of the relationship is modulated by population density.

The abundance-suitability relationship is positive only outside protected areas and in low-density populations.

Protection status and density-dependence should be incorporated into abundance-suitability models of threatened species.