A dark scenario for Cerrado plant species: Effects of future climate, land use and protected areas ineffectiveness

New law puts Bolivian biodiversity hotspot on road to deforestation

(2018) Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Future effects of climate and land-use change on terrestrial vertebrate community diversity under different scenarios

(2018) Tim Newbold   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mining code changes undermine biodiversity conservation in Brazil

(2017) SARA VILLÉN-PÉREZ et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Bat species vulnerability in Cerrado: integrating climatic suitability with sensitivity to land-use changes

(2017) POLIANA MENDES et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

The role of soybean production as an underlying driver of deforestation in the South American Chaco

(2017) Verena Fehlenberg et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Deforestation dynamics and drivers in different forest types in Latin America: Three decades of studies (1980–2010)

(2017) Dolors Armenteras et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Using worldwide edaphic data to model plant species niches: An assessment at a continental extent

(2017) Santiago José Elías Velazco et al.   PLoS One

Deforestation and cattle expansion in the Paraguayan Chaco 1987–2012

(2017) Matthias Baumann et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being

(2017) Gretta T. Pecl et al.   SCIENCE

Opportunities drive the global distribution of protected areas

(2017) Germán Baldi et al.   PeerJ

Moment of truth for the Cerrado hotspot

(2017) Bernardo B. N. Strassburg et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning

(2017) Tomislav Hengl et al.   PLoS One

Biodiversity conservation gaps in the Brazilian protected areas

(2017) Ubirajara Oliveira et al.   Scientific Reports

Tree species of South America central savanna: endemism, marginal areas and the relationship with other biomes

(2016) Renata D. Françoso et al.   Acta Botanica Brasilica

A framework for prioritizing conservation translocations to mimic natural ecological processes under climate change: A case study with African antelopes

(2016) Benjamin Luke Payne et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Deforestation scenarios for the Bolivian lowlands

(2016) Graciela Tejada et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Land-use policies and corporate investments in agriculture in the Gran Chaco and Chiquitano

(2016) Yann le Polain de Waroux et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment

(2016) Tim Newbold et al.   SCIENCE

Reasons to Conserve Nature

(2016) Richard G. Pearson   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Local biodiversity is higher inside than outside terrestrial protected areas worldwide

(2016) Claudia L. Gray et al.   Nature Communications

Should I stay or should I go? Climate change effects on the future of Neotropical savannah bats

(2016) Ludmilla M.S. Aguiar et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

An Objective Approach to Select Climate Scenarios when Projecting Species Distribution under Climate Change

(2016) Nicolas Casajus et al.   PLoS One

Conservation biogeography of the Cerrado's wild edible plants under climate change: Linking biotic stability with agricultural expansion

(2015) G. de Oliveira et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Conservation in Brazil needs to include non-forest ecosystems

(2015) Gerhard E. Overbeck et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Performance metrics and variance partitioning reveal sources of uncertainty in species distribution models

(2015) James I. Watling et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Land use and land cover change impacts on the regional climate of non-Amazonian South America: A review

(2015) Alvaro Salazar et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Transformation dynamics of the natural cover in the Dry Chaco ecoregion: A plot level geo-database from 1976 to 2012

(2015) María Vallejos et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity

(2015) Y. Hautier et al.   SCIENCE

Optimal sampling of seeds from plant populations for ex-situ conservation of genetic biodiversity, considering realistic population structure

(2014) Sean Hoban et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Global protected area expansion is compromised by projected land-use and parochialism

(2014) Federico Montesino Pouzols et al.   NATURE

Mapping Species Distributions with MAXENT Using a Geographically Biased Sample of Presence Data: A Performance Assessment of Methods for Correcting Sampling Bias

(2014) Yoan Fourcade et al.   PLoS One

The taxonomic name resolution service: an online tool for automated standardization of plant names

(2013) Brad Boyle et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Effects of global climate changes on geographical distribution patterns of economically important plant species in cerrado

(2013) Lorena Mendes Simon et al.   REVISTA ARVORE

Protected Areas and Effective Biodiversity Conservation

(2013) S. Le Saout et al.   SCIENCE

Changes in Ecologically Critical Terrestrial Climate Conditions

(2013) N. S. Diffenbaugh et al.   SCIENCE

Edge artefacts and lost performance in national versus continental conservation priority areas

(2012) Atte Moilanen et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Variation in niche and distribution model performance: The need for a priori assessment of key causal factors

(2012) E.E. Saupe et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Intensive agriculture erodes β-diversity at large scales

(2012) Daniel S. Karp et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Protected areas facilitate species' range expansions

(2012) C. D. Thomas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How does climate change cause extinction?

(2012) A. E. Cahill et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate Change and Species Range Dynamics in Protected Areas

(2011) Javier Monzón et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The representative concentration pathways: an overview

(2011) Detlef P. van Vuuren et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands

(2011) G. C. Hurtt et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

The crucial role of the accessible area in ecological niche modeling and species distribution modeling

(2011) Narayani Barve et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Failure to migrate: lack of tree range expansion in response to climate change

(2011) Kai Zhu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate, climate change and range boundaries

(2010) Chris D. Thomas   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Niche and area of distribution modeling: a population ecology perspective

(2010) Jorge M. Soberón   ECOGRAPHY

Critical thresholds associated with habitat loss: a review of the concepts, evidence, and applications

(2009) Trisha L. Swift et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS