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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.

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.

Functional and taxonomic composition of bird assemblages inside cities vary with the surrounding habitat.

A landscape matrix mainly composed of native habitat may mitigate the urban impact on native communities.

Species and traits turnover was more evident in the agricultural than in the forest landscape matrix.

Urban areas should be managed to maintain a forest component and sure successful bird breed.

Here we demonstrated that large mammalian herbivores play a fundamental role in plant consumption and trampling.

Because large herbivore activities are associated to palm fruit patches, we found that palm-herbivore association is an important component to understand forest productivity.

Defaunation and palm harvesting can lead to important changes in forest structure, biomass and diversity in tropical forests.

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.

Small forest-steppe parches are embedded in pine plantation matrix in Central-Europe.

Species turnover was higher for steppes than for forests, steppes are more isolated.

Habitat type, fragments size and matrix quality affects plants spiders and ants.

The habitat-specific matrix quality effects call for a situation-specific management.

Establishing native tree plantation and extensive grasslands conserve the biota.

We compared the 8 components of the Human Influence Index (HII) on cause-specific mortality of North American mammals.

Human population density had greatest positive influence on proportion of anthropogenic mortality.

Conservation programs may be enhanced by more strongly considering the effects of human population density to conserve mammal populations.

Caatinga dry forests are becoming increasingly drier and chronically disturbed.

Herb communities negatively respond to rainfall reduction and increase disturbance.

Responses may be mediated by the local density of woody plants.

Multiple successional pathways should emerge with the new environmental conditions.

Management and conservation actions are urgent to protect Caatinga herb diversity.

Agriculture-frontier classification allows organizing social-ecological processes.

Forest exploitation and real-estate transactions are daily drivers in the early stages.

Global agribusiness and livestock are drivers dominating the advanced stages.

Only crop replacement takes place during mature frontier stages.

Extra-regional people and governments are mentioned as the responsible social actors.

Climate change threatens Cerrado anurans.

∼70% of anuran species tend to lose potential distribution areas.

Not all species are likely to be equally affected by climate change.

Anurans’ responses to climate change are mediated by biogeographic character.