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The conservation potential of road verges in the savannas of Brazil: Challenges and opportunities
Monize Altomare, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos, Vagner Santiago do Vale, Imma Oliveras Menor
10.1016/j.pecon.2025.03.001
Highlights

  • Cerrado road verges hold 32% of native vegetation.

  • Store 600,000 tons of carbon.

  • Conservation efforts should prioritize law enforcement to protect these areas.

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Available online 17 March 2025
What is the role of fire in rewilding? Synthesising peer-reviewed literature into four thematic discourses
Francisco Navarro-Rosales, Chloë Strevens, Immaculada Oliveras Menor
10.1016/j.pecon.2025.02.002
Highlights

  • Biodiversity conservation through rewilding should recognise the importance of fire.

  • Opinions on the role of fire in rewilding can be synthesised into four discourses.

  • Discourses consistently reappear in the expanding body of peer-reviewed literature.

  • Common themes imply integrating fire management and rewilding has strong potential.

  • Moving forwards requires addressing rewilding definitions and context dependence.

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Available online 10 March 2025
Belo Monte Dam impacts: Protagonism of local people in research and monitoring reveals ecosystem service decay in Amazonian flooded vegetation
A. Quaresma, G. Zuquim, L.O. Demarchi, C.C. Ribas, F. Wittmann, A.M. Assunção, C.C Carneiro, P.P. Ferreira, ... R. Cruz e Silva
10.1016/j.pecon.2025.02.001
Highlights

  • Belo Monte Dam diverted water from Xingu River, drastically reducing the high-water season.

  • This triggered an Independent Monitoring of flooded forests led by Xingu inhabitants.

  • Monitoring provided evidence of ecosystem services decay in flooded forests.

  • Some examples are high vegetation mortality, invasive species, and phenological disruption.

  • Current hydrological conditions are threatening the environment and people's livelihoods.

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Available online 5 March 2025
Passando a boiada: degazettement and downsizing threaten protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon
Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Thadeu Sobral-Souza, Tiago Shizen Pacheco Toma, Aretha Franklin Guimaraes, Thiago Junqueira Izzo, Marcos Penhacek, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Neucir Szinwelski, ... Philip Martin Fearnside
10.1016/j.pecon.2025.01.001
Highlights

  • Biodiversity conservation requires the protection and maintenance of protected areas

  • Protected areas store carbon and regulate ecosystem processes

  • Protected areas prevent deforestation and conserve ecosystems and biodiversity

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Available online 24 February 2025
From silos to solutions: Navigating transdisciplinary conservation research for early career researchers
Alice J. Twomey, Jayden Hyman, Karlina Indraswari, Maximilian Kotz, Courtney L. Morgans, Kevin R. Bairos-Novak
10.1016/j.pecon.2024.12.002
Highlights

  • Global conservation problems often require holistic, transdisciplinary solutions.

  • Transdisciplinary ECRs face major challenges in collaboration and career growth.

  • Current metrics fail to capture the real-world impact of transdisciplinary research.

  • Transforming metrics and recognising transdisciplinary scientists is key.

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Available online 24 February 2025
Birds in agroscapes: effects of forest cover and landscape heterogeneity on dryland bird diversity and composition
Mônica da Costa Lima, Fredy Alvarado, Helder F.P. de Araujo
10.1016/j.pecon.2024.12.004
Highlights

  • α and β-diversity of birds is mainly influenced by forest cover.

  • Landscape heterogeneity is important for generalist and open-habitat bird species.

  • The heterogeneity of landscapes on productive land fosters the conservation of biodiversity.

  • Agricultural landscapes must conserve native habitat and diversify crops.

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Available online 19 February 2025
Ensuring the quality of historical data for wildlife conservation: A methodological framework
Norma I. Díaz, Paulo Corti
10.1016/j.pecon.2024.12.003
Highlights

  • Written historical records are crucial for enhancing wildlife knowledge.

  • Significant limitations and biases are detected in historical sources.

  • A seven-step process is provided to enhance the accuracy and reliability of historical information.

  • This approach improves the efficiency and effectiveness of conservation research.

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Available online 19 December 2024
High-diversity Atlantic Forest restoration plantings fail to represent local floras
Crislaine de Almeida, J. Leighton Reid, Renato A. Ferreira de Lima, Luis Fernando Guedes Pinto, Ricardo Augusto Gorne Viani
10.1016/j.pecon.2024.12.001
Highlights

  • Forest restoration plantings have lower beta diversity than remnant forests.

  • Plantings are more floristically similar to one another than to regional forests.

  • Trees planted to restore the Atlantic Forest poorly represent local floras.

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Available online 9 December 2024
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation