Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation

ISSN: 2530-0644

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation (PECON) is a scientific journal devoted to improving theoretical and conceptual aspects of conservation science. It has the main purpose of communicating new research and advances to different actors of society, including researchers, conservationists, practitioners, and policymakers. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation publishes original papers on biodiversity conservation and restoration, on the main drivers affecting native ecosystems, and on nature¿s benefits to people and human wellbeing. This scope includes studies on biodiversity patterns, the effects of habitat loss, fragmentation, biological invasion and climate change on biodiversity, conservation genetics, spatial conservation planning, ecosystem management, ecosystem services, sustainability and resilience of socio-ecological systems, conservation policy, among others.

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation is the official scientific journal of the Brazilian Association for Ecological Science and Conservation. It is an open access journal, supported by the Boticário Group Foundation for Nature Protection, and thus without any charge for authors. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation was previously published, between 2003 and 2016, as 'Natureza & Conservação'.

Indexed in:

Periodica, CABI International, Latindex, Hapi, ISI

•
The Brazilian protected area network plays a key role in biodiversity conservation.
•
Systematic conservation planning determines the existing conservation gaps.
•
Conservation gaps correspond to 16.5% of the Brazilian territory.
•
Conservation gaps are unevenly distributed among the Brazilian biomes.
•
The Brazilian protected area network should be further expanded.

Open access

Threats for bird population restoration: A systematic review

Guilherme Fernando Gomes Destro, Paulo De Marco, Levi Carina Terribile

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2018;16:68-73

Highlights

•
The largest number of restoration attempts was performed in New Zealand.
•
The most frequent species were Grus americana and Notiomystis cincta.
•
Thirteen drivers were pointed out by researchers and practitioners.
•
Considering only environmental causes, predation was the most remarkable driver.

Open access

Thinking about super-dominant populations of native species – Examples from Brazil

Vânia Regina Pivello, Marcus Vinicius Vieira, Maria Tereza Grombone-Guaratini, Dalva Maria Silva Matos

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2018;16:74-82

Highlights

•
Native species populations may become overabundant and cause serious harm.
•
Super-dominant species are poorly considered in the scientific literature.
•
We highlight 16 Brazilian plant species with extreme super-dominant behaviour.
•
Human activities trigger super-dominance, which shall intensify with climate change.
•
Scientists and decision-makers must work closer to identify and manage super-dominant species.

Open access

Vocal dialects and their implications for bird reintroductions

Bruno Araujo Martins, Giovanna Soares Romeiro Rodrigues, Carlos Barros de Araújo

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2018;16:83-9

Highlights

•
We investigated geographical variation of the vocalizations of the Cactus Conure.
•
A method for determining the best releasing areas is proposed based on bioacoustics.
•
A multinomial model was used to classify the locality of traffic-seized specimens’ calls among natural populations.
•
The method can reduce vocal differences among released and natural populations, and thus improve reintroduction efficiency.

Open access

Research letters

Habitat fragmentation narrows the distribution of avian functional traits associated with seed dispersal in tropical forest

Alex A.A. Bovo, Katia M.P.M.B. Ferraz, Marcelo Magioli, Eduardo R. Alexandrino, Érica Hasui, Milton C. Ribeiro, Joseph A. Tobias

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2018;16:90-6

Highlights

•
Reduction in patch size affects functional trait composition of bird communities.
•
Functional richness is directly and positively related to habitat patch size.
•
Large-bodied and large-beaked frugivores are most sensitive to patch size reduction.
•
Loss of sensitive species potentially hinders seed dispersal for large-fruited trees.
•
Conserving large inter-connected patches is key to sustaining ecological processes.

Open access

Geographic range-scale assessment of species conservation status: A framework linking species and landscape features

Ludmila Rattis, Ricardo Dobrovolski, Maurício Talebi, Rafael Loyola

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2018;16:97-104

Highlights

•
We integrate biogeography and landscape ecology to understand the scale dependence of habitat predictors.
•
In straightforward approach, we modeled how the habitat is distributed across the species range.
•
Metrics accounting only for landscape structure presented the same pattern across all scales.
•
When accounting for biological features, local scale analyses do not capture habitat patterns important for species conservation.
•
The landscape carrying capacity is lower for all the species at the range scale.
•
The effect of habitat loss could be even worse when we consider the total area where the species inhabit.
•
Movement ability could mitigate the fragmentation effect at range scale, since connectivity is higher at the range scale.

Open access

Restoring Brazil's road margins could help the country offset its CO2 emissions and comply with the Bonn and Paris Agreements

G.W. Fernandes, A. Banhos, N.P.U. Barbosa, M. Barbosa, H.G. Bergallo, C.G. Loureiro, G.E. Overbeck, R. Solar, ... M.M. Vale

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2018;16:105-12

Highlights

•
The restoration of usually degraded roadsides is proposed.
•
Thousands of hectares are readily available for restoration in Brazil.
•
This corresponds to US$ 26.5 billion in the carbon market.
•
The restoration of these wasted public lands can stimulate ecological restoration.

Open access

The crab harvest in a mangrove forest in south-eastern Brazil: Insights about its maintenance in the long-term

Laura Helena de Oliveira Côrtes, Camilah Antunes Zappes, Ana Paula Madeira Di Beneditto

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2018;16:113-8

Highlights

•
Crab harvest system in the mangrove of Paraíba do Sul River estuary is fragile.
•
Continuity of harvest in last 14 years does not represent management efficiency.
•
Integrative local-based proposals are necessary to crab harvest maintenance.

Open access

Book review

Forest dynamics from an environmental history perspective

Simone R. Freitas

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2018;16:119-20

Full text access

Indexed in:

Follow us:

Subscribe to our newsletter