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The effect of past defaunation on ranges, niches, and future biodiversity forecasts
; Galetti, Mauro
; ; ; ; (Global Change Biology, 2022) [Artigo]
Humans have reshaped the distribution of biodiversity across the globe, extirpating species from regions otherwise suitable and restricting populations to a subset of their original ranges. Here, we ask if anthropogenic ... -
Altitude and temperature drive anuran community assembly in a Neotropical mountain region
Matavelli, Rodrigo; Oliveira, Juliano Machado ; ; Ribeiro, Milton Cezar ; (Biotropica, 2022) [Artigo]
Understanding the spatial variation in species richness and the mechanisms that limit species range sizes along geographical gradients belong to the central research issues in macroecology. Here, we aim to test the topographic ... -
Best of both worlds: Combining ecological and social research to inform conservation decisions in a Neotropical biodiversity hotspot
(Journal for Nature Conservation, 2022) [Artigo]Conservation decision is a challenging and risky task when it aims at prioritizing species or protected areas (PAs) to prevent extinction while ensuring fair treatment of all stakeholders. Better conservation decisions are ... -
Predicting resilience and stability of early second-growth forests
; ; ; ; Ribeiro, Milton Cezar; ; (Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2022) [Artigo]
Identifying deforested areas with high potential for natural forest recovery can be used as an aid for ecological restoration projects at large-scale. However, accurate predictions that infer the resilience (i.e. recovery ... -
Large mammalian herbivores modulate plant growth form diversity in a tropical rainforest
Souza, Yuri; Villar, Nacho ; Zipparro, Valesca ; Nazareth, Sérgio ; Galetti, Mauro (Journal of Ecology, 2022) [Artigo]
The world’s terrestrial biomes are broadly classified according to the dominant plant growth forms that define ecosystem structure and processes. Although the abundance and distribution of different plant growth forms can ... -
Edge contrast modulates ant community responses to edge distance in agricultural landscapes
; ; ; Barão, Thamilin; Ribeiro, Milton Cezar (Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 2022) [Artigo]
Although edge influence has been studied extensively, there is no consensus on how insect communities respond to edge environments. Studies highlight the importance of an experimental design that considers samples in ... -
Functional roles of frugivores and plants shape hyper-diverse mutualistic interactions under two antagonistic conservation scenarios
Fuzessy, Lisieux; ; ; ; ; ; Galetti, Mauro ; ; ; Culot, Laurence et al. (Biotropica, 2022) [Artigo]
Disentangling the structure of plant–animal mutualisms shed light on how species are organized, and allow us to infer about resilience, specificity, and ultimately the consequences of the loss of functions to the ecosystem. ... -
Large herbivore-palm interactions modulate the spatial structure of seedling communities and productivity in Neotropical forests
Villar, Nacho; Rocha-Mendes, Fabiana ; ; Galetti, Mauro (Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 2022) [Artigo]
Top-down control by large herbivores is a well-known driver of plant diversity structure and productivity. Yet, for forest ecosystems the sign and magnitude of herbivore control across resource gradients is not well ... -
Bamboo shapes the fine-scale richness, abundance, and habitat use of small mammals in a forest fragment
André, Clariana Lima; Côrtes, Marina Corrêa ; ; Galetti, Mauro ; Alves, Rafael Souza Cruz ; Bovendorp, Ricardo Siqueira (Mammal Research, 2022) [Artigo]
A classic question in community ecology is how species coexist within a community. Studies have sought to understand how species occurrence vary according to habitat structure, space, food, predators, and competitors. Small ... -
The individual-based network structure of palm-seed dispersers is explained by a rainforest gradient
; Côrtes, Marina Corrêa; ; Galetti, Mauro ; ; (Oikos, 2022) [Artigo]
How species interactions change in space and time is a major question in ecology. In tropical forests, plant individuals share mutualistic partners (pollinators or seed dispersers), yet we have little understanding of the ... -
Landscape composition regulates the spillover of beneficial insects between forest remnants and adjacent coffee plantations
Reis Medeiros, Hugo; ; ; ; ; ; Ribeiro, Milton Cezar (Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 2021) [Artigo]
Cross-habitat movements are crucial for persistence of beneficial insects in agricultural landscapes; however, much remains unknown on how landscape structure affects the spillover of beneficial insects between crop and ... -
Landscape structure and local variables affect plant community diversity and structure in a Brazilian agricultural landscape
Silveira dos Santos, Juliana; ; ; ; Ribeiro, Milton Cezar ; (Biotropica, 2022) [Artigo]
The biodiversity in agricultural landscapes depends on land-use types, natural elements, and farming intensity. The Brazilian Cerrado is a biodiversity hotspot, however, the native vegetation loss rates have increased in ... -
Invasive wild boar's distribution overlap with threatened native ungulate in Patagonia
Bercê, William; Bello, Carolina ; Mendes, Calebe P ; Vancine, Maurício H ; Galetti, Mauro ; (Journal of Mammalogy, 2021) [Resenha]
Wild boar (Sus scrofa) is one of the most damaging invasive species in the world and can have a profound impact on the distribution of native species. Nevertheless, there still are limitations on the species' current ... -
Setting priority conservation management regions to reverse rapid range decline of a key neotropical forest ungulate
Oshima, Júlia Emi de Faria; ; Sobral-Souza, Thadeu ; ; ; ; Vancine, Maurício Humberto ; ; Ribeiro, Milton Cezar (Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021) [Artigo]
Mammals are important components of biodiversity that have been drastically and rapidly impacted by climate change, habitat loss, and anthropogenic pressure. Understanding key species distribution to optimize conservation ... -
Trophic and spatial complementarity on seed dispersal services by birds, wild mammals, and cattle in a Mediterranean woodland pasture
Bueno, Rafael da Silveira; ; Galetti, Mauro ; (Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021) [Artigo]
Most earth surfaces have undergone intensive land-use changes, creating habitat mosaics. Seed dispersal by animals is a crucial process in such mosaics, but community-wide studies comparing the functional complementarity ... -
Size-related seed use by rodents on early recruitment of Quercus serrata in a subtropical island forest
; Galetti, Mauro; ; ; ; (Forest Ecology and Management, 2022) [Artigo]
Rodents are ubiquitous seed predators in nature and their size-related seed choice plays an important role in the plant's community structure. However, to understand how size-related seed predation by rodents affects plant ... -
Valuing the economic impacts of seed dispersal loss on voluntary carbon markets
Bello, Carolina; Culot, Laurence ; ; Galetti, Mauro (Ecosystem Services, 2021) [Artigo]
Seed dispersal is an ecosystem service strongly affected by the loss of mutualist dispersers, with economic consequences in terms of carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation policies. Especially, large frugivores ... -
Combined impacts of climate and land use change and the future restructuring of Neotropical bat biodiversity
Gonçalves, Fernando; ; Galetti, Mauro ; (Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 2021) [Artigo]
Forecasting the effects of global change on biodiversity is necessary to anticipate the threats operating at different scales in space and time. Climate change may create unsuitable environmental conditions, forcing species ... -
Ecosystem roles and conservation status of bioturbator mammals
; ; Galetti, Mauro; (Mammal Review, 2022) [Resenha]
The action of biological reworking of soils is referred to as bioturbation, and many species of mammals globally have an important role in soil disturbance, modifying ecosystem characteristics. We examined global patterns ... -
Different scales determine the occurrence of aquatic macrophyte species in a tropical stream
Mori, Gisele Biem; ; ; ; Cancian, Leonardo Farage ; Camargo, Antonio Fernando Monteiro (Acta Botanica Brasilica, 2021) [Artigo]
Distributions of aquatic macrophyte species are commonly associated with water chemistry characteristics. However, other environmental factors that can lead to the occurrence of aquatic plants in lotic ecosystems, such as ...