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We investigated the strength of trophic cascades through bird exclusion.
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Trophic cascades are three times stronger in forest interior than modified habitats.
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Leaf damage, however, does not change with habitat modification.
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Functional redundancy of birds may offset loss in their ecological function.
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Riparian deforestation may strongly affect stream functioning, with consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem services.
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We evaluated the effects of riparian deforestation on 1. measures of community structure using aquatic benthic invertebrates, and 2. an aspect of ecosystem functioning, aquatic leaf processing.
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Both structural and functional measures changed with riparian deforestation: invertebrate diversity decreased and metrics changed as expected of a negative impact, and leaf processing decreased.
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Thus both types of bioindicators were useful for monitoring changes and relating them to loss of biodiversity and ecosystem function.
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As forest habitat loss progresses, functional overdispersion increases among related species.
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The loss of forest habitat causes the local extinction of functionally similar bird species.
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Removing functionally similar species leads to a reduction in functional redundancy.
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Competition is more important than neutral processes in small forest habitat.
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Measuring objectively the ecological integrity of an ecosystem is a complex task.
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Deviation of an indicator variable from a reference relationship is a measure of integrity.
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Plant biomass (indicator) is constrained by vegetation height (context variable).
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Fragmentation (indicator) is constrained by the amount of habitats (context variable).
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In the anthropocene, conservation goals must be set without pristine reference states.
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Salix × rubens (hybrid crack willow) is invading Brazilian riparian ecosystems
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Most individuals occurred exclusively along watercourses and floodplains
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Water transport can facilitate hybrid crack willow dissemination
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Cultivation and transport must include measures to prevent biological invasions
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Such measures have still not been established by the government
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Large herbivores cause genetic diversity loss between cohorts in a desert shrub.
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Parental and offspring cohorts showed increasing inbreeding.
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Livestock reduced seed set, seedling emergence and increased offspring mortality.
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Unmanaged large exotic herbivores seriously affect dryland vegetation structure.
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Disturbance jeopardize plant evolutionary potential thought complex effects.
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The replacement of natural vegetation to agriculture, pastures or urban matrices decreased genetic diversity in the Palla’s long-tongued bat.
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Pallas’s long-tongued bat had a quasi-stable range distribution since the last Glacial Maximum.
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The Quaternary climate changes had no significant effects on the genetic diversity of the Palla’s long-tongued bat.
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Populations of the Palla’s long-tongued bat was differentiated by isolation-by-distance, but not by environment.
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Our findings point to the maintenance of large areas of natural vegetation to conserve genetic diversity in the Palla’s long-tongued bat.
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Local communities cooperate and participate in CBTH programs due to power-imbalance between strong governments and weak communities who neighbor or live closely with wildlife.
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Contingency propositions that help practitioners and governments to understand and implement projects that seek environmental conservation in collaboration with local communities.
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Key components of community-based trophy hunting programs identified and defined.
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Factors affecting CBTH program’s process that determine the outcomes of CBTH programs.
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Identifying specific and quantitative objectives and linking them to timeframes and budgets.
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Developing strategic monitoring and evaluation programs focussed on MPA performance.
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Enabling local stakeholders to participate in planning processes.
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Explicitly considering MPA costs and leveraging existing sources of funding.
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Decentralizing resource management and empowering local stakeholders to manage resources sustainably.
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Brazilian government liberates the sugarcane plantations in the Pantanal and the Amazon.
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This non-sanctioned crop is likely to become the newest driver of deforestation in these biomes.
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Direct and indirect conversion of forests can create a carbon balance debt that could take centuries to offset.
