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Most native species produced stems of reasonable quality in restoration plantations.

Tree growth limited the potential for timber production in ecological restoration.

Silviculture operations and improvement are crucial for producing native timber.

Logging based on growth optimized the timber production vs time relation.

Species-specific growth models can maximize timber production and guide harvesting.

There is room for expansion in the academic engagement with businesses in Brazil, notably in issues related to biodiversity and sustainability.

To tackle existing issues: offsets, licensing, and private reserves are fronts for engagement between academia and businesses in Brazil.

To tap into new opportunities: sustainable bioeconomy, access and benefit sharing, and environmental, social, and corporate governance are topics whereby academia-businesses partnerships in Brazil can innovate.

A mindset shift in academia and corporations will be required to foster sustainable businesses from a biodiversity perspective.

We identified 52 community-based monitoring projects on game terrestrial fauna in the tropics.

Most of these initiatives (86%) were interrupted due the lack of funding.

The absence of spatio-temporal data analyses prevented the provision of information on monitored resource.

The empowerment and management actions were hampered by the lack of local participation.

Community-based approaches will be more efficient if they engage local people at all stages of the monitoring.

The role of intraspecific variation across levels of biological organization is an unanswered question in invaded and non-invaded pollination networks.

Significant intraspecific variation was detected in the pollen loads and pollen deposition of the invasive plant Impatiens glandulifera.

Only a few individual pollinators carried large amounts of alien pollen grains, potentially function as super-spreaders driving the invading process.

Node and structural specialization were higher for individual-based and pollen-transfer networks in comparison to species-level and pollen-transport networks.

These findings shed light on the mechanisms of the (re)organization of population niches and the invasion biology dynamics scaling-up to community and ecosystem functioning.

Power lines are a major cause of bird mortality due to electrocutions and collisions.

This threat has been poorly studied in South America.

Scientific and grey literature suggest this threat is present in this subcontinent.

A total of 85 bird species from 34 families affected by power lines were identified.

More studies assessing bird mortality due to this threat in South America are needed.

Damage costs from biological invasions and natural hazards are of similar magnitude.

Global biological invasion costs increased by 702% from 1980–1999 to 2000–2019.

Invasion costs increased faster than natural hazard damages over time (1980–2019).

Protecting further 6.75% of the Cerrado doubles representation of endemic tetrapods.

Larger priority areas for conservation are concentrated in northern Cerrado.

Small and m edium priority areas are scattered across southern Cerrado.

Our ability to represent endemic terrestrial vertebrates decreased with recent habitat loss.

Habitat loss precludes the representation of tetrapods in large top priority areas.

IFM can reduce Carbon emissions.

Carbon credits from the emissions avoided could worth 100 million USD annually.

The money from avoided emissions could finance IFM programs and restoration in the Pantanal.

The intensification of extreme climate events is already a reality throughout the world.

The state of Acre recorded 202 extreme events between 1987 and 2022.

The year 2010 marked a breaking point in the trend of extreme events.

We may be experiencing the tipping point for climate disasters.

These data show the urgency of implementing actions to adapt to climate extremes.

We extracted hummingbird-plant data from an online photograph platform.

Data were compared with expert collected data, available in the literature.

There were some similarities between citizen and expert data.

For the hummingbirds, overlap in plant species interacting was generally low.

Unstructured citizen science data can be a rich source of interaction information.

The Neotropical cascabel has been expanding its range since the 1950’.

A number of hypothesis to explain the expansion have been raised, but none tested.

We show that land use change is the main driver of this expansion.

Climate change also has a (smaller) role on the phenomenon.

Secondary and old-growth subtropical Brazilian Atlantic Forests are acting as carbon sink.

Biodiversity is not related to net carbon change in this region.

Subtropical Brazilian Atlantic Forests should be conserved irrespective to their ages to maintain carbon sink.

Biodiversity and carbon-related processes should be taken as conservation targets.

About 82% of Brazilian mammals deliver at least one of the 11 ecosystem services (ES).

About 24% of the species are endemic to Brazil, where 75% them deliver at least one ES.

These ES are at risk, as 57% of the species have lost their ES role are endemic.

ES provision does not mirror the spatial patterns of mammal richness.

References are key to restoration, especially in highly threatened ecosystems.

Optimal references connect conservation and restoration.

Small remnants that serve as references can lead to landscape-scale benefits.

A detailed habitat classification is needed for adequate protection and restoration.

Ensuring optimal references protection will benefit future restoration initiatives.

Severe decline of taxonomic and functional richness of Atlantic Forest anurans are expected.

The negative effects (losses) will be more pronounced for taxonomic richness.

Forest and open habitat species will decline, calling for landscape conservation.

High-altitude coastal habitats, potential climatic refuges, will require dynamic conservation strategies.

We reviewed 712 papers related to the conservation of 397 primate species.

Conservation research efforts are driven by time since species description, locomotion type, and body mass, but not by threat status.

Most studies were led by researchers based in countries without native non-human primate populations, mainly focusing on primate-rich regions.

Phylogenetically related primates receive similar conservation research efforts.

Significant threats to primates, like hunting and animal trade, are understudied.

Estimated ant species richness is higher in the tropical region.

Estimated ant species richness was best explained by annual rainfall and mean temperature.

The direction and effect of abiotic determinants are relative to the zoogeographic realm analyzed, highlighting regional effects.

Peruvian Protected Areas do not adequately protect NCPs and biodiversity hotspots.

Multiple hotspot areas cannot be conserved in the same areas.

A conservation plan only focused on biodiversity may not be sufficient to preserve NCPs.

Identifying hotspots is the first step for achieving multifunctionality in Peruvian PAs.

Multifunctional PAs require to analyze overlap and relationships of NCPs and biodiversity.

More than 12% of the watersheds of the Brazilian Amazon already have or are approaching natural forest cover below 30% and more than a third have below 80%.

Regions of the Amazon already forest cover below the average of the Atlantic Forest.

We propose learning policy lessons from the Atlantic Forest to avoid the same trajectory as the Amazon.

They need to be implemented urgently to stop the route towards its tipping point, address the climate emergency and assure the provision of ecosystem services.

A country-level database of useful native plants is provided.

Plant families with high species richness have a high number of useful species.

Plant species with great cultural importance are frequent in the landscape.

70% of useful native plant species are used exclusively in one region.

Differences in the plants used reflect the biogeographical affinities between regions.