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Mining triggered cumulative impacts in a biodiverse region in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest.
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Raw materials and carbon sequestration are the least impacted ecosystem services.
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Pollination and freshwater provision are the most impacted ecosystem services.
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Biodiverse areas would be less impacted in future in contrast to areas with net demand for ecosystem services.
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Tailored conservation actions are needed to balance ecosystem services budget.
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We assess the effect of forest loss on bird diversity in the whole landscape mosaic.
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Forest loss decreased forest-specialist and habitat-generalist bird diversity.
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Forest loss restricted forest birds to a few sites in the landscape.
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Preserving forest cover is paramount for bird diversity in anthropogenic landscapes.
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Combining visual, vocal and sign allow to survey all region’s important game species.
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Data collected by local hunters proved efficient for detecting the species composition.
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Sightings/vocalisations are crucial to monitor primates and terrestrial game birds.
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Tapir and deer can be well monitored using camera trap and track and sign surveys.
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Camera traps are the most effective method to record carnivores.
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Jaguar densities ranged from 0.44 to 1.6 individuals/100 km2.
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Density was significantly lower in more deforested sites vs. less deforested sites.
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Landscape resistance for jaguars increased by ∼12% per 10% loss of forest.
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More jaguar research in working landscapes is needed to understand land use effects.
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Edges are hotspots of forest cover change in an Atlantic Forest landscape.
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Main determinants of both deforestation and regrowth were biophysical factors.
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Strictly Protected Areas was the unique socioeconomic determinant of deforestation.
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Biophysical determinants may indicate socioeconomic processes involved in forest cover changes.
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Private Legal Reserves (LRs) can retain part of the alpha and beta diversity
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There are a strong turnover of species between LRs and soybean crops
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The composition of ants differs among Cerrado, Amazon and transitional vegetation
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The similarity among samples decay with geographic distance (300 km) only in LRs
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Cerrado LRs shares more species with crops than LRs in any other landscape