Combining visual, vocal and sign allow to survey all region’s important game species.

Data collected by local hunters proved efficient for detecting the species composition.

Sightings/vocalisations are crucial to monitor primates and terrestrial game birds.

Tapir and deer can be well monitored using camera trap and track and sign surveys.

Camera traps are the most effective method to record carnivores.

Edges are hotspots of forest cover change in an Atlantic Forest landscape.

Main determinants of both deforestation and regrowth were biophysical factors.

Strictly Protected Areas was the unique socioeconomic determinant of deforestation.

Biophysical determinants may indicate socioeconomic processes involved in forest cover changes.

Grassland ant community composition and body size do not change with fire.

Ant richness increased 1 and 12 months post-fire.

Ant richness was positively driven by plant richness in burned patches.

Seed removal by ants increased 1 month post-fire.

Private Legal Reserves (LRs) can retain part of the alpha and beta diversity

There are a strong turnover of species between LRs and soybean crops

The composition of ants differs among Cerrado, Amazon and transitional vegetation

The similarity among samples decay with geographic distance (300 km) only in LRs

Cerrado LRs shares more species with crops than LRs in any other landscape

Spatial knowledge of Atlantic Forest primates has biases that vary according to the study scale and grid cell resolution;

In broad-scale perspectives (regional and global) the primate’s spatial knowledge is unbiased;

At narrow-scale perspectives, the knowledge may have bias, depending on grid cell resolution;

The central region of the Atlantic Forest is well sampled;

The São Francisco region and ecotone zones need to be further sampled.

The literature other than scientific journals (non-journals) is a rarely explored resource in predator conservation.

Non-journals are important for some predator species and countries.

The use of non-journals should become a habitual practice to seek solutions for mitigation of human-predator conflicts.

The list of publications and online resources with valuable non-journals is provided.

Raptor species richness increased in tropical cities.

Raptor species richness increased with increasing urban green area size.

Raptor body size increased with increasing urban green area size.

Urban green space size is fundamental for the conservation of raptor communities.

The use of species richness and range size is useful to identify priority regions for the conservation of phyllostomid bats.

The richness-rarity hotspot covered most of the Andean region and up to Panama, with a greater portion in Colombia.

The poorness-rarity hotspot was located in North America, with a major portion in the arid region of Mexico.

Richness-rarity hotspot has a greater proportion of Conservation Units and a greater number of DD species.

In the poorness-rarity hotspot, the conservation of phyllostomid species is at risk due to the lack of Conservation Units.

Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity comprise multidimensional diversity.

Multidimensional diversity patterns can be mapped to detect conservation priorities.

Protected areas do not always include sites with high multidimensional biodiversity.

Indigenous communities have a fundamental role in the conservation of biodiversity.

Areas with high multidimensional diversity may have high or low ecological integrity.

Jaguar densities ranged from 0.44 to 1.6 individuals/100 km2.

Density was significantly lower in more deforested sites vs. less deforested sites.

Landscape resistance for jaguars increased by ∼12% per 10% loss of forest.

More jaguar research in working landscapes is needed to understand land use effects.

We assess the effect of forest loss on bird diversity in the whole landscape mosaic.

Forest loss decreased forest-specialist and habitat-generalist bird diversity.

Forest loss restricted forest birds to a few sites in the landscape.

Preserving forest cover is paramount for bird diversity in anthropogenic landscapes.

We examined the activity and sonotypes of aerial insectivorous bats present in a human-modified landscape in Southeast Brazil.

Bats exhibited reduced activity and richness in Eucalyptus plantations.

Forest canopy density had a negative effect on overall activity and sonotypes richness of aerial insectivorous bats.

This study reinforce the importance of maintaining preserved areas of native vegetation in agropastoral landscapes.

Mining triggered cumulative impacts in a biodiverse region in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest.

Raw materials and carbon sequestration are the least impacted ecosystem services.

Pollination and freshwater provision are the most impacted ecosystem services.

Biodiverse areas would be less impacted in future in contrast to areas with net demand for ecosystem services.

Tailored conservation actions are needed to balance ecosystem services budget.