Identifying specific and quantitative objectives and linking them to timeframes and budgets.

Developing strategic monitoring and evaluation programs focussed on MPA performance.

Enabling local stakeholders to participate in planning processes.

Explicitly considering MPA costs and leveraging existing sources of funding.

Decentralizing resource management and empowering local stakeholders to manage resources sustainably.

The replacement of natural vegetation to agriculture, pastures or urban matrices decreased genetic diversity in the Palla’s long-tongued bat.

Pallas’s long-tongued bat had a quasi-stable range distribution since the last Glacial Maximum.

The Quaternary climate changes had no significant effects on the genetic diversity of the Palla’s long-tongued bat.

Populations of the Palla’s long-tongued bat was differentiated by isolation-by-distance, but not by environment.

Our findings point to the maintenance of large areas of natural vegetation to conserve genetic diversity in the Palla’s long-tongued bat.

Large herbivores cause genetic diversity loss between cohorts in a desert shrub.

Parental and offspring cohorts showed increasing inbreeding.

Livestock reduced seed set, seedling emergence and increased offspring mortality.

Unmanaged large exotic herbivores seriously affect dryland vegetation structure.

Disturbance jeopardize plant evolutionary potential thought complex effects.

The zooplankton was the most studied taxon, followed by mollusks and crabs, and it was also dominant across the hydrographic regions.

Cases about microplastics were reported only in three regions.

The hydrographic region of Paraná comprised the largest number of cases for the three invertebrate groups.

It was detected a disproportionately low increase of number of cases in relation to population density in the hydrographic regions.

Measuring objectively the ecological integrity of an ecosystem is a complex task.

Deviation of an indicator variable from a reference relationship is a measure of integrity.

Plant biomass (indicator) is constrained by vegetation height (context variable).

Fragmentation (indicator) is constrained by the amount of habitats (context variable).

In the anthropocene, conservation goals must be set without pristine reference states.

Salix × rubens (hybrid crack willow) is invading Brazilian riparian ecosystems

Most individuals occurred exclusively along watercourses and floodplains

Water transport can facilitate hybrid crack willow dissemination

Cultivation and transport must include measures to prevent biological invasions

Such measures have still not been established by the government