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Wetlands function as the “kidneys of the planet”, assuring water supply and quality.

Cerrado wetlands have distinct vegetation types playing equivalent ecological roles.

All types of Cerrado wetlands should have the same status of legal protection.

The maximum water-table elevation defines the wetlands’ limit, biota and functioning.

All human actions threatening the hydrology of Cerrado wetlands must be regulated.

The impact of future climate change on narrow-ranging species is poorly documented.

We used a combination of techniques and high-resolution predictors to fill this gap.

We predict a complete extirpation of suitable conditions across their range by 2070.

Climate risk may be higher than expected in tropical narrow-ranging species.

Proactive conservation actions are needed in tropical heterogeneous environments.

Multi-temporal cropland mask allows accurate classification of grassland remnants.

Grasslands of Uruguayan Eastern Plains are in an advanced stage of fragmentation.

Suitability for rice crop establishment drives the grassland fragmentation.

Anthropization drives directional changes on functional traits of bird communities of Neotropical seasonal forests.

Birds within anthropized habitat have short life cycles, rapid development, high fecundity, and broad ecological niches.

According to the Ecological Strategies Theory, birds could show the ruderal strategy within the perturbed anthropic habitat.

Climate change is unlikely to modify relative habitat suitability for birds at a landscape scale in the Atlantic Forest (AF).

AF landscapes with higher forest cover will remain more suitable regardless of climate change.

Predicted impacts of climate change are minor regardless the spatial scale at which climatic suitability is quantified.

Most AF landscapes have low habitat suitability for birds due to extensive deforestation.

Neotropical governments and their environmental agencies have generally poor governance.

Poor governance can be influencing human-top predator conflicts in the Neotropics.

Forty percent of interviewees disapproved the current top-down local management.

Disapproval of top-down local management influenced human tolerance independently.

Neotropics need a better balance between bottom-up and top-down governance.

Non-climatic variables improve ecological niche models (ENMs).

Addition of vegetation cover constrains predicted suitable areas.

Estimated areas differ most for birds with high and medium forest dependency.

ENM provides useful information to support quick decisions at broad scale.

Nautical charts indicate historical decline in reef extension in the Abrolhos Bank.

Coastal reefs lost between 20–49% of their extension in the last 160 years.

Reef declines are linked to coral extraction for lime and coastal degradation.

77% of oceanic islands show low levels of protection and a high human modification.

Most islands harboring a high richness of threatened vertebrates are located in developing countries.

Most large islands in a critical situation harbor the highest numbers of threatened vertebrates.

We identified 58 large islands where conservation actions are urgent.

Few studies empirically estimated the impact of roadkill on wildlife populations.

Giant anteaters inhabiting road vicinity areas have lower survival rates.

20% of the anteaters inhabiting road vicinity areas are road-killed.

Roads are sink areas for giant anteaters.