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Volunteer divers recorded data for all species selected for the monitoring protocol.
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Diving experience did not affect data collection.
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Volunteer divers estimated abundance and size similarly to trained scientific divers.
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Volunteer divers recorded flagship species, complementing traditional surveys.
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Recreational divers enjoyed the citizen-science experience, attesting its potential.
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Fire induces the establishment of a savanna-like state in abandoned pastures impairing the recovery of the Atlantic Forest.
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Vegetation structure and plant functional traits in abandoned pastures were more similar to savannas than to the Atlantic Forest.
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The establishment of a savanna-like state reveal a worrying future for the Atlantic Forest because the ongoing climate change.
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Best practice could increase beef production without increasing its impacts.
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There are trade-offs between GHG reduction and other impacts.
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Interventions in the cow-calf stage have more potential to increase production.
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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).
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This trend includes includes several potential species extirpations from the Neotropical seasonally dry forests.
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Uneven structural reorganization and biotic heterogeneity throughout the Neotropical seasonally dry forests.
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The density of organisms associated with rhodoliths in the euphotic zone is higher than in the mesophotic zone.
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Drivers of macrofauna associated to rhodoliths were depth zone, average diameter, biomass of macroalgae and density of rhodoliths.
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The biodiversity associated with the SW Atlantic mesophotic rhodolith beds seems to be much higher as previous works had shown for other rhodolith beds.
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We tested the accuracy of biological attributes to predict reef fish species’ vulnerability to extinction.
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Megafauna, carnivorous, mobile invertivorous, habitat specialists, highly mobile species and Elasmobranchii have greater extinction risks.
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Reef sites along southestern Brazil have greater proportions and richness of threatened species.
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Biological attributes may be a tool to predict the vulnerability of reef fishes.
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Two geographically partitioned haplotypes reported.
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No recent gene flow between islands.
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Results indicate good chances of Rata Island remaining rat-free after eradication.
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Birds use scattered trees mainly as stepping stones and feeding sites.
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Their use as stepping stones depends on tree size and distance to a forest patch.
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Bird are able to move greater distances and at higher frequencies across a landscape using stepping stones.
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Both forest cover and tree aggregation increase tree visits under predation risk.
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Climate change will affect species distribution via variation in suitable area amount, displacement of optimal conditions, and/or exposure to non-analog conditions.
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We found that Amazon primates will face a plethora of effects of climate change on their geographic ranges.
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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.
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Remaining populations might also become fragmented and are forecasted to occupy sub-optimal conditions at the periphery of their future ranges.
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Conservation assessments should consider the multiple dimensions of climate change.
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Afforestation of grasslands does not alter taxonomic diversity and functional diversity in a similar manner.
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The association of some traits with post-cutting stage demonstrates the plasticity of many typical open-area species that return to planted areas shortly after cutting.
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Afforestation of southern grasslands does not result in reduced functional diversity.
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The combination of species traits and use of functional space are relatively similar across habitats.
