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Primate, carnivores and cetacean are more prone to SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Mutations of viral spike protein can produce virus variants favoring the spillover.

We suggest prioritizing monitoring efforts on susceptible species here mentioned.

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.

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.

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.

Volunteer divers recorded data for all species selected for the monitoring protocol.

Diving experience did not affect data collection.

Volunteer divers estimated abundance and size similarly to trained scientific divers.

Volunteer divers recorded flagship species, complementing traditional surveys.

Recreational divers enjoyed the citizen-science experience, attesting its potential.

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.

Best practice could increase beef production without increasing its impacts.

There are trade-offs between GHG reduction and other impacts.

Interventions in the cow-calf stage have more potential to increase production.

Birds use scattered trees mainly as stepping stones and feeding sites.

Their use as stepping stones depends on tree size and distance to a forest patch.

Bird are able to move greater distances and at higher frequencies across a landscape using stepping stones.

Both forest cover and tree aggregation increase tree visits under predation risk.

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.