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A deforestation hotspot emerges in a region planned for agricultural development in the - Amazon rainforest.
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Deforestation grows in all land tenure classes, especially after the project became widespread, in 2018.
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Forest loss increased in protected areas after 2018, except in Indigenous Lands, which resist as protective shields.
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Contrary to economic development, it can trigger socioeconomic losses and affect essential edaphoclimatic conditions for agricultural activity.
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Environmental impact studies need to be concluded before establishing the zone for agricultural development.
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Since 1990, the intense threat faced by the Atlantic Forest pushed the enactment of dedicated laws safeguarding its native vegetation.
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Current successional stages’ parameters are subjective and imprecise, hindering environmental permitting and related offset policies.
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We highlight the current classification’s main limitations, propose specific improvements, and suggest creating a new inclusive framework.
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It is urgent to review, clarify, simplify, and increase the scientific reliability of the classification of successional stages.
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Shade coffee plantations favor the presence of some pollinators such as hummingbirds.
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Late forests and shade coffee plantations had the highest number of species, pairs of interactions and modularity.
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The cattle pastures network presented the greatest robustness due to a greater presence of generalist hummingbirds.
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Hummingbird visits are influenced by plant traits such as foliage height but not by the number of flowers.
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Conversion of natural habitats causes changes in the hummingbird-plant interaction, affecting ecological process such as pollination.
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Bird sensitivity varies across distribution ranges and environmental gradients, shaping distinct population patterns.
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Four patterns: edge, equal, core, and varying sensitivity to landscape changes.
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Dispersal ability, habitat specialization, and distribution range do not fully explain sensitivity patterns.
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Species' intraspecific sensitivity variations call for adaptive conservation strategies.
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eDNA metabarcoding allows cost-effective biodiversity analysis and monitoring.
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eDNA focuses on defining MOTUs/ASVs, but more information is intrinsic to such data.
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α and β diversity patterns from eDNA are enhanced by explicit phylogenetic analyses.
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Diversity gradients of microeukaryotes in Araguaia River illustrate these patterns.
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Data collection can deplete conservation resources.
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This can be circumvented by making better use of readily available data.
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We provide a roadmap for how researchers can make better use of existing data.
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Doing so will make conservation research more efficient and effective.
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Dry-forest regeneration mechanisms respond to both natural and human drivers.
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Caatinga regeneration relies on low-density and taxonomically impoverished regenerating assemblages.
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Resprouts rather than seedlings and saplings support Caatinga regeneration.
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Chronic human disturbances pose negative effect on regeneration mechanisms such as seed rain and seedling abundance.
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Agricultural better practices are required to improve Caatinga resilience.
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Overlap of priority areas for bird conservation based on three diversity components is low.
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The current Protected Areas network does not cover the most important areas.
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Climate change can have a low impact on priority areas for conservation.
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We show priority areas where the current Protected Areas network could be expanded.
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The federal grants and scholarships are uneven distributed between Brazilian regions.
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The North region receives the least number of scholarships and grants per km² in Brazil.
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The current federal budget is insufficient to cover large-scale research in the Amazon.
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New national and international funds need to be created to improve Amazon biodiversity research.
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We recorded 605 mammalian carnivorans (10 spp.) across 368 Brazilian urban areas.
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Hotspots of carnivorans in urban areas were in Atlantic Forest and Cerrado.
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Key predictions include human development index and human population density.
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Road extension, municipality size and elevation also are crucial factors.
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We design a multi-objective Integer Linear Programming model for MPA selection.
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The model maximizes ecological habitat and connectivity along the Kuroshio current.
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We simulate larval drift from Batanes, Philippines to settlement areas in Taiwan.
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We feed estimated travel time to the optimization model.
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Our framework can inform a potential transboundary MPA network.
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Ceratophrys ornata is not recorded in Uruguay since 1982.
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We report the last documented record for Brazil, made in 1992.
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Distance to grasslands and afforestation negatively affect the C. ornata occurrence.
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Water body cover and sandy soils positively influence the occurrence of C. ornata.
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The Amazon basin is approaching a tipping point, and is therefore of paramount concern for biodiversity conservation.
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While attention is paid to the protection of terrestrial ecosystems, freshwater efforts lag behind, despite rising threats.
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Basin-wide conservation policy development, implementation, and enforcement requires commitments across all scales.
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Stakeholder's participation in the system could be facilitated by supporting cross-border and cross-scalar capacity-building.
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Open biomes cover ∼60% of land worldwide, and are associated with many biodiversity hotspots.
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There, plants typically allocate most biomass belowground, yet functional roles of belowground coarse organs are overlooked.
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Perenniality and decomposability of belowground coarse organs can differ greatly from that of fine roots.
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We call for the inclusion of belowground coarse organs and their functions, especially in carbon cycling research.
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Such inclusive approach can refine mitigation policies and our view on the functioning and conservation of open biomes.
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Expanding protected areas is likely to have high economic costs and exacerbate inequalities.
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OECMs can provide a cheaper more equitable alternative to meeting area-based conservation targets.
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Effort and funds should focus on improving existing protected areas and designating new OECMs.
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Thermal mismatch can increase susceptibility of tropical amphibians to chytridiomycosis.
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Cold- and warm-adapted amphibian hosts had a higher risk of infection under abnormally warm and cool conditions, respectively.
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Overall, cool-adapted frogs displayed a greater risk of disease regardless of temperature.
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Multiple facets of biodiversity should be considered to understand phytoplankton dynamics.
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Anthropogenic effects operate through the regulation of phytoplankton abundance, which in turn mediates species richness, and through it, functional evenness.
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Connectivity to water, resource availability, pond size and design are key factors in understanding phytoplankton dynamics in livestock farm ponds.
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Pond design should be considered for the construction and management of livestock farm ponds in the tropics.
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Shark recovery in Brazilian Marine Protected Areas has concerned managers.
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Shark culling has been proposed and scientific-diving banned after incidents.
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Decisions should not be based on fear but grounded in scientific research.
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Both conservation goals and economic benefits can be achieved with shark recovery.
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CUs and ILs help regulate energy balance components, with lower LST and albedo and higher ET than multiple-use areas.
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External pressures (deforestation, burned areas) have led to significant changes in LST and albedo over the past two decades, particularly in MUs.
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The main predictors of changes in LST, ET, and albedo were the CUs and ILs, burned area, % native vegetation, NDVI, water deficit , and precipitation.
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Results showed significant differences between biomes, with higher daytime LST and lower ET in the Cerrado compared with the Amazon.
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The conversion rates of native vegetation were higher in MUs than in protected areas, , particularly in the Amazon region of Mato Grosso state.
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Campos Sulinos are neglected in terms of conservation and biodiversity studies.
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We recovered 58 works about population genetics and phylogeography in Campos Sulinos.
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High genetic variability and population structure were found in plants from Campos Sulinos.
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There is a gap in genetics and genomics data availability in Campos Sulinos to apply in biodiversity conservation.
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Genetics and genomics data are critical to address goals for CBD post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework in Campos Sulinos.
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