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Birds in Anthropogenic Landscapes: The Responses of Ecological Groups to Forest Loss in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest by Morante-Filho, José Carlos, Faria, Deborah, Mariano-Neto, Eduardo, Rhodes, Jonathan

“…Habitat loss is the dominant threat to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in terrestrial environments. In this study, we used an a priori classification of…”
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Designing optimal human‐modified landscapes for forest biodiversity conservation by Arroyo‐Rodríguez, Víctor, Fahrig, Lenore, Tabarelli, Marcelo, Watling, James I., Tischendorf, Lutz, Benchimol, Maíra, Cazetta, Eliana, Faria, Deborah, Leal, Inara R., Melo, Felipe P. L., Morante‐Filho, Jose C., Santos, Bráulio A., Arasa‐Gisbert, Ricard, Arce‐Peña, Norma, Cervantes‐López, Martín J., Cudney‐Valenzuela, Sabine, Galán‐Acedo, Carmen, San‐José, Miriam, Vieira, Ima C. G., Slik, J.W. Ferry, Nowakowski, A. Justin, Tscharntke, Teja, Jordan, Ferenc

“…Agriculture and development transform forest ecosystems to human‐modified landscapes. Decades of research in ecology have generated myriad concepts for the…”
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Phyllostomid bats of a fragmented landscape in the north-eastern Atlantic forest, Brazil by Faria, Deborah

“…This paper addresses the effects of habitat fragmentation on the phyllostomid bats of the Atlantic rain forest in Brazil, by comparing community structure…”
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Combining species distribution modeling and field surveys to reappraise the geographic distribution and conservation status of the threatened thin-spined porcupine (Chaetomys subspinosus) by Giné, Gastón Andrés Fernandez, Faria, Deborah

“…The threatened thin-spined porcupine (Chaetomys subspinosus), a forest-specialist endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic forest, was rarely detected in the wild…”
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Functional decay in tree community within tropical fragmented landscapes: Effects of landscape-scale forest cover by Rocha-Santos, Larissa, Benchimol, Maíra, Mayfield, Margaret M, Faria, Deborah, Pessoa, Michaele S, Talora, Daniela C, Mariano-Neto, Eduardo, Cazetta, Eliana

“…As tropical rainforests are cleared, forest remnants are increasingly isolated within agricultural landscapes. Understanding how forest loss impacts on species…”
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Tropical forest loss and geographic location drive the functional genomic diversity of an endangered palm tree by Santos, Alesandro Souza, Cazetta, Eliana, Faria, Deborah, Lima, Thâmara Moura, Lopes, Maria Teresa Gomes, Carvalho, Carolina da Silva, Alves‐Pereira, Alessandro, Morante‐Filho, José Carlos, Gaiotto, Fernanda Amato

“…Human activity has diminished forests in different terrestrial ecosystems. This is well illustrated in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, which still hosts high…”
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Impacts of landscape-scale forest loss and a dry event on the demographic structure of the endangered palm Euterpe edulis Mart. in the Atlantic Forest by Leal, Adrielle, Benchimol, Maíra, Costa, Hugo C. M., Faria, Deborah, Cazetta, Eliana

“…Forest loss is one of the most serious threats to biodiversity in the tropics and mainly occurs due to the conversion of native forests by the expansion of…”
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Implications of Habitat Loss on Seed Predation and Early Recruitment of a Keystone Palm in Anthropogenic Landscapes in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest by Soares, Leiza Aparecida S S, Faria, Deborah, Vélez-Garcia, Felipe, Vieira, Emerson M, Talora, Daniela C, Cazetta, Eliana

“…Habitat loss is the main driver of the loss of global biodiversity. Knowledge on this subject, however, is highly concentrated on species richness and…”
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Screening of Brazilian medicinal plants for antiviral activity against rotavirus by Cecílio, Alzira Batista, Faria, Déborah Behr de, Oliveira, Pollyana de Carvalho, Caldas, Sérgio, Oliveira, Dario Alves de, Sobral, Marcos Eduardo Guerra, Duarte, Maria Gorette Resende, Moreira, Carolina Paula de Souza, Silva, Cláudia Gontijo, Almeida, Vera Lúcia de

“…Brazilian medicinal plants traditionally used for the treatment of diarrhoea were investigated for their in vitro antiviral activity against the simian…”
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Landscape composition is more important than local vegetation structure for understory birds in cocoa agroforestry systems by Cabral, Júlia Perez, Faria, Deborah, Morante-Filho, José Carlos

“…•Bird assemblages in cocoa agroforests are mainly shaped by landscape composition.•Pasture amount at the landscape exerts severe effect on all bird ecological…”
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Landscape composition is the strongest determinant of bird occupancy patterns in tropical forest patches by Morante-Filho, José Carlos, Benchimol, Maíra, Faria, Deborah

“…Context Biodiversity in tropical region has declined in the last decades, mainly due to forest conversion into agricultural areas. Consequently, species…”
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Landscape forest cover and local vegetation structure mediate multitrophic relationships but not the leaf damage in cacao trees by Morato, Karla Vieira, Morante-Filho, José Carlos, Cabral, Julia Perez, Heming, Neander Marcel, Faria, Deborah

“…Cacao is the most important agricultural product in the southern region of Bahia state, Brazil, with 70 % of its production occurring under the traditional…”
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Landscape-scale forest loss shapes demographic structure of the threatened tropical palm Euterpe edulis mart. (Arecaceae) by Leal, Adrielle, Benchimol, Maíra, Faria, Deborah, Dodonov, Pavel, Cazetta, Eliana

“…•Landscape-scale habitat loss affects the persistence processes of plant species.•Forest cover in scale of landscape determines demographic patterns for…”
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Shade cacao plantations (Theobroma cacao) and bat conservation in southern Bahia, Brazil by Faria, Deborah, Baumgarten, Julio

“…Nearly 40% of the remaining Atlantic Forest in southern Bahia state, Brazil, is a rustic agroforest of cacao (Theobroma cacao). These traditional shade…”
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Direct and cascading effects of landscape structure on tropical forest and non-forest frugivorous birds by Morante-Filho, José Carlos, Arroyo-Rodríguez, Víctor, de Souza Pessoa, Michaele, Cazetta, Eliana, Faria, Deborah

“…Global biodiversity is increasingly threatened by land-use change, but the direct and indirect drivers of species diversity in human-modified tropical…”
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Cabruca agroforestry systems reduce vulnerability of cacao plantations to climate change in southern Bahia by Heming, Neander Marcel, Schroth, Goetz, Talora, Daniela C., Faria, Deborah

“…In southern Bahia, Brazil’s traditional cacao region, cacao is mostly grown under the shade of thinned Atlantic Forest (known as cabruca ). These agroforestry…”
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Patterns and predictors of β‐diversity in the fragmented Brazilian Atlantic forest: a multiscale analysis of forest specialist and generalist birds by Morante‐Filho, José Carlos, Arroyo‐Rodríguez, Víctor, Faria, Deborah, Chapman, Jason

“…Biodiversity maintenance in human‐altered landscapes (HALs) depends on the species turnover among localities, but the patterns and determinants of β‐diversity…”
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Extinction filters mediate the global effects of habitat fragmentation on animals by Betts, Matthew G, Wolf, Christopher, Pfeifer, Marion, Banks-Leite, Cristina, Arroyo-Rodríguez, Víctor, Ribeiro, Danilo Bandini, Barlow, Jos, Eigenbrod, Felix, Faria, Deborah, Fletcher, Jr, Robert J, Hadley, Adam S, Hawes, Joseph E, Holt, Robert D, Klingbeil, Brian, Kormann, Urs, Lens, Luc, Levi, Taal, Medina-Rangel, Guido F, Melles, Stephanie L, Mezger, Dirk, Morante-Filho, José Carlos, Orme, C David L, Peres, Carlos A, Phalan, Benjamin T, Pidgeon, Anna, Possingham, Hugh, Ripple, William J, Slade, Eleanor M, Somarriba, Eduardo, Tobias, Joseph A, Tylianakis, Jason M, Urbina-Cardona, J Nicolás, Valente, Jonathon J, Watling, James I, Wells, Konstans, Wearn, Oliver R, Wood, Eric, Young, Richard, Ewers, Robert M

“…Habitat loss is the primary driver of biodiversity decline worldwide, but the effects of fragmentation (the spatial arrangement of remaining habitat) are…”
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Jackfruit trees as seed attractors and nurses of early recruitment of native plant species in a secondary forest in Brazil by Gomes, Milena, Cazetta, Eliana, Bovendorp, Ricardo, Faria, Deborah

“…The Atlantic Forest is one of the most threatened tropical forests in the world, being drastically reduced, fragmented, and disturbed. The drastic process of…”
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Landscape structure shapes activity levels and composition of aerial insectivorous bats at different spatial scales by Falcão, Fábio, Dodonov, Pavel, Caselli, Christini B., dos Santos, Juliana Silveira, Faria, Deborah

“…Tropical forests are being lost and modified at an unprecedented rate, with extant biodiversity increasingly restricted to human-modified landscapes. Resulting…”
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