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Cerrado wetlands: multiple ecosystems deserving legal protection as a unique and irreplaceable treasure
Giselda Durigan, Cássia Beatriz Munhoz, Maria José Brito Zakia, Rafael S. Oliveira, Natashi A.L. Pilon, Raul Silva Telles do Valle, Bruno M.T. Walter, Eliane A. Honda, Arnildo Pott
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2022;20:185-96
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Highlights

  • 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.

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Are narrow-ranging species doomed to extinction? Projected dramatic decline in future climate suitability of two highly threatened species
Nicolas Dubos, Frederique Montfort, Clovis Grinand, Marie Nourtier, Gregory Deso, Jean-Michel Probst, Julie Hanta Razafimanahaka, Raphali Rodlis Andriantsimanarilafy, Eddie Fanantenana Rakotondrasoa, Pierre Razafindraibe, Richard Jenkins, Angelica Crottini
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2022;20:18-28
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Highlights

  • 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.

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Natural grassland remnants in dynamic agricultural landscapes: identifying drivers of fragmentation
C. Ríos, F. Lezama, G. Rama, G. Baldi, S. Baeza
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2022;20:205-15
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Highlights

  • 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.

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Trait shifts in bird communities from primary forest to human settlements in Mexican seasonal forests. Are there ruderal birds?
Leopoldo D. Vázquez-Reyes, Horacio Paz-Hernández, Héctor O. Godínez-Álvarez, María del Coro Arizmendi, Adolfo G. Navarro-Sigüenza
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2022;20:117-25
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Highlights

  • 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.

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Macroscale climate change predictions have little influence on landscape-scale habitat suitability
Luara Tourinho, Jayme A. Prevedello, Bruno M. Carvalho, Diogo S.B. Rocha, Mariana M. Vale
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2022;20:29-37
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Highlights

  • 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.

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Top-down local management, perceived contribution to people, and actual detriments influence a rampant human‒top predator conflict in the Neotropics
Santiago Zuluaga, F. Hernán Vargas, Sebastián Kohn, Juan M. Grande
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2022;20:91-102
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Highlights

  • 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.

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Vegetation cover restricts habitat suitability predictions of endemic Brazilian Atlantic Forest birds
Anna Elizabeth de Oliveira-Silva, Augusto João Piratelli, Damaris Zurell, Fernando Rodrigues da Silva
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2022;20:1-8
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Highlights

  • 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.

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Sailing into the past: Nautical charts reveal changes over 160 years in the largest reef complex in the South Atlantic Ocean
Carine O. Fogliarini, Guilherme O. Longo, Ronaldo B. Francini-Filho, Loren McClenachan, Mariana G. Bender
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2022;20:231-9
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Highlights

  • 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.

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Insufficient protection and intense human pressure threaten islands worldwide
Javier Nori, Fabricio Villalobos, Luis Osorio-Olvera, Rafael Loyola
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2022;20:223-30
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Highlights

  • 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.

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Assessing the impact of roadkill on the persistence of wildlife populations: A case study on the giant anteater
Fernando Ascensão, Arnaud L.J. Desbiez
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2022;20:272-8
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Highlights

  • 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.

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