The impact of downsizing protected areas: How a misguided policy may enhance landscape fragmentation and biodiversity loss

Brazil's vegetation ravage may be encouraged by law

(2020) Gustavo H. Zaia Alves et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Integrating Environmental, Geographical and Social Data to Assess Sustainability in Hydrographic Basins: The ESI Approach

(2020) Edivando Vitor do Couto et al.   Sustainability

Endangered species account for 10% of Brazil’s documented timber trade

(2020) Arno Fritz das Neves Brandes et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

High-risk infrastructure projects pose imminent threats to forests in Indonesian Borneo

(2019) Mohammed Alamgir et al.   Scientific Reports

Landscape pattern changes over 25 years across a hotspot zone in southern Brazil

(2019) Igor José Malfetoni Ferreira et al.   Southern Forests

Brazil in the mud again: lessons not learned from Mariana dam collapse

(2019) Vivian M. Cionek et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Significance of forest fragments for conservation of endangered vascular plant species in southern Brazil hotspots

(2019) Leonardo da Silva Tomadon et al.   ECOSCIENCE

Fire increases the productivity of sugarcane, but it also generates ashes that negatively affect native fish species in aquatic systems

(2019) Gabriel M.R. Gonino et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Insights on the functional composition of specialist and generalist birds throughout continuous and fragmented forests

(2019) Luiz dos Anjos et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The uncertain future of protected lands and waters

(2019) Rachel E. Golden Kroner et al.   SCIENCE

The global tree restoration potential

(2019) Jean-Francois Bastin et al.   SCIENCE

The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C

(2019) O. Hoegh-Guldberg et al.   SCIENCE

Caves Geodiversity Evaluation as an Instrument to the Management of the Campos Gerais National Park, Southern Brazil

(2018) Henrique Simão Pontes et al.   Geoheritage

Neotropical freshwater fishes imperilled by unsustainable policies

(2017) Fernando M Pelicice et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Fire and edge effects in a fragmented tropical forest landscape in the southwestern Amazon

(2017) Izaya Numata et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Relative roles of spatial processes, natural factors and anthropogenic stressors in structuring a lake macroinvertebrate metacommunity

(2017) Yongjiu Cai et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

A review on effectiveness of best management practices in improving hydrology and water quality: Needs and opportunities

(2017) Yaoze Liu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Moment of truth for the Cerrado hotspot

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

Biodiversity conservation gaps in the Brazilian protected areas

(2017) Ubirajara Oliveira et al.   Scientific Reports

The “Tilapia Law” encouraging non-native fish threatens Amazonian River basins

(2016) André A. Padial et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) in the Amazon

(2016) Shalynn M. Pack et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers

(2016) Sean L. Maxwell et al.   NATURE

Misguided strategy for mosquito control

(2016) V. M. Azevedo-Santos et al.   SCIENCE

Brazil's Amazonian fish at risk by decree

(2016) R. M. Tófoli et al.   SCIENCE

Reducing the global environmental impacts of rapid infrastructure expansion

(2015) William F. Laurance et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Dynamics of global forest area: Results from the FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015

(2015) Rodney J. Keenan et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

An assessment of the terrestrial mammal communities in forests of Central Panama, using camera-trap surveys

(2015) Ninon F.V. Meyer et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Habitat loss and the effectiveness of protected areas in the Cerrado Biodiversity Hotspot

(2015) Renata D. Françoso et al.   Natureza & Conservacao

Downgrading, Downsizing, Degazettement, and Reclassification of Protected Areas in Brazil

(2014) E. BERNARD et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Köppen's climate classification map for Brazil

(2014) Clayton Alcarde Alvares et al.   METEOROLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT

Experiences from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: ecological findings and conservation initiatives

(2014) Carlos A. Joly et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Core concepts of spatial prioritisation in systematic conservation planning

(2012) Aija S. Kukkala et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Protected Areas and Local Communities: an Inevitable Partnership toward Successful Conservation Strategies?

(2012) Gustavo S. M. Andrade et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Does flagship species tourism benefit conservation? A case study of the golden snub-nosed monkey in Shennongjia National Nature Reserve

(2011) ZuoFu Xiang et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Very Large Protected Areas and Their Contribution to Terrestrial Biological Conservation

(2010) Lisette Cantú-Salazar et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Do riparian zones qualify as critical habitat for endangered freshwater fishes?

(2010) John S. Richardson et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

Planning and design of ecological networks in urban areas

(2010) Maria Ignatieva et al.   Landscape and Ecological Engineering

Beyond the Fragmentation Threshold Hypothesis: Regime Shifts in Biodiversity Across Fragmented Landscapes

(2010) Renata Pardini et al.   PLoS One

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

(2010) S. H. M. Butchart et al.   SCIENCE

Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) and its conservation implications

(2010) Michael B. Mascia et al.   Conservation Letters

The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: How much is left, and how is the remaining forest distributed? Implications for conservation

(2009) Milton Cezar Ribeiro et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Boom-and-Bust Development Patterns Across the Amazon Deforestation Frontier

(2009) A. S. L. Rodrigues et al.   SCIENCE