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Pandemics can become a new indirect driver of tropical deforestation.

Halting illegal deforestation should be considered an essential activity during the pandemic.

Forest fires could aggravate the health risks of COVID-19.

Tropical deforestation will increase the risks of emerging zoonotic diseases.

Indigenous people should be especially protected during the current pandemic.

Campo Rupestre (CR) occurs in the ecotone Cerrado-Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspots.

CR epitomizes the conflicts between exploitative and sustainable socioeconomic models.

We propose and describe the Action Plan for the Campo Rupestre (APCR).

The APCR aims to reconcile the socio-economic and environmental values in the CR.

Over 77% of bird species tended to reduce their distributional ranges in Neotropical seasonally dry forests for years 2050 and 2070 (regardless climate and dispersal scenarios).

This trend includes includes several potential species extirpations from the Neotropical seasonally dry forests.

Uneven structural reorganization and biotic heterogeneity throughout the Neotropical seasonally dry forests.

A new disaster in Brazil involving the rupture of a tailings dam reopened the discussions about socio-environmental impact.

The absence of actions by the companies and the lack of a management plan can imperil the efforts for environmental recovery.

The slowdown of Brazilian environmental legislation can generate a future darker scenario.

Climate change will affect species distribution via variation in suitable area amount, displacement of optimal conditions, and/or exposure to non-analog conditions.

We found that Amazon primates will face a plethora of effects of climate change on their geographic ranges.

Even in cases that the species range could increase, Amazonian primates will be exposed to novel climates and might not be able to track their preferred environments.

Remaining populations might also become fragmented and are forecasted to occupy sub-optimal conditions at the periphery of their future ranges.

Conservation assessments should consider the multiple dimensions of climate change.

For the first time, we used the tick species Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato (distributed in different areas around the world) to characterize its global geographic distribution using ecological niche modeling, and explore the uncertainty involved in transferring models in space and time.

The global model (the one calibrated in all calibration areas together) predicted broad suitable areas for the species around the world.

Models based on each calibration area separately showed the potential geographic distribution of R. sanguineus sensu lato under current-day conditions with high agreement across the eastern United States, southern Mexico, northern South America, Brazil, Europe, North Africa, sub-Saharan countries, Asia, and Australia.

The global potential distributions of R. sanguineus sensu lato under future conditions were very similar between the two RCPs, but GCMs, model replicates, and model parametrizations contributed importantly to the overall variation detected.

The density of organisms associated with rhodoliths in the euphotic zone is higher than in the mesophotic zone.

Drivers of macrofauna associated to rhodoliths were depth zone, average diameter, biomass of macroalgae and density of rhodoliths.

The biodiversity associated with the SW Atlantic mesophotic rhodolith beds seems to be much higher as previous works had shown for other rhodolith beds.

Fire induces the establishment of a savanna-like state in abandoned pastures impairing the recovery of the Atlantic Forest.

Vegetation structure and plant functional traits in abandoned pastures were more similar to savannas than to the Atlantic Forest.

The establishment of a savanna-like state reveal a worrying future for the Atlantic Forest because the ongoing climate change.

Riparian deforestation may strongly affect stream functioning, with consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem services.

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.

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.

Thus both types of bioindicators were useful for monitoring changes and relating them to loss of biodiversity and ecosystem function.

Climate and land-use changes threatens Brazilian Cerrado birds.

Only 13% of the Cerrado could serve as refugia for the bird species.

Refugia areas do not coincide with current species-rich areas.

∼11% of the refugia areas overlapped with protected areas.

Different conservation strategies must be adopted to protect species.