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Multiple successional pathways in human‐modified tropical landscapes: new insights from forest succession, forest fragmentation and landscape ecology research by Arroyo‐Rodríguez, Víctor, Melo, Felipe P. L., Martínez‐Ramos, Miguel, Bongers, Frans, Chazdon, Robin L., Meave, Jorge A., Norden, Natalia, Santos, Bráulio A., Leal, Inara R., Tabarelli, Marcelo

“…ABSTRACT Old‐growth tropical forests are being extensively deforested and fragmented worldwide. Yet forest recovery through succession has led to an expansion…”
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Forest fragmentation drives Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil to biotic homogenization by Lôbo, Diele, Leão, Tarciso, Melo, Felipe P. L., Santos, André M. M., Tabarelli, Marcelo

“…Aim To examine whether the tree flora of the Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil has experienced detectable taxonomic homogenization via the proliferation…”
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Conserving tropical tree diversity and forest structure: the value of small rainforest patches in moderately-managed landscapes by Hernández-Ruedas, Manuel A, Arroyo-Rodríguez, Víctor, Meave, Jorge A, Martínez-Ramos, Miguel, Ibarra-Manríquez, Guillermo, Martínez, Esteban, Jamangapé, Gilberto, Melo, Felipe P L, Santos, Bráulio A

“…Rainforests are undergoing severe deforestation and fragmentation worldwide. A huge amount of small forest patches are being created, but their value in…”
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Maintenance of tree phylogenetic diversity in a highly fragmented rain forest by Arroyo‐Rodríguez, Víctor, Cavender‐Bares, Jeannine, Escobar, Federico, Melo, Felipe P. L, Tabarelli, Marcelo, Santos, Bráulio A

“…1. Deforestation and forest fragmentation can drive species to local extinction, potentially changing the phylogenetic community structure and diversity of…”
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On the hope for biodiversity-friendly tropical landscapes by Melo, Felipe P.L., Arroyo-Rodríguez, Víctor, Fahrig, Lenore, Martínez-Ramos, Miguel, Tabarelli, Marcelo

“…With the decreasing affordability of protecting large blocks of pristine tropical forests, ecologists have staked their hopes on the management 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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Beyond COP28: Brazil must act to tackle the global climate and biodiversity crisis by de Figueiredo Machado, Flávia, Terra, Marcela C N S, Rodrigues, André Ferreira, Fearnside, Philip M, Guedes Pinto, Luís Fernando, da Conceição Bispo, Polyanna, Faleiro, Frederico V, Coutinho, André G, Regolin, André Luis, Jaramillo-Giraldo, Carolina, Melo, Fabiano R, Melo, Felipe P L, Vieira, Ima C G, Monteiro, Lara M, Barboza, Luís G A, Venzon, Madelaine, Vieira, Raísa R S, Corrêa, Rosângela, Pessoa, Sheila M, Pelicice, Fernando M

“…Extreme weather has made 2023 virtually certain to be the warmest year on record, signaling unprecedented climate and biodiversity crises. Brazil, the world’s…”
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Forest fragmentation reduces recruitment of large-seeded tree species in a semi-deciduous tropical forest of southern Mexico by Melo, Felipe P. L., Martínez-Salas, Esteban, Benítez-Malvido, Julieta, Ceballos, Gerardo

“…This study tested whether the reduction in the number of large-bodied seed dispersers is correlated with shifts in the taxonomic and functional (e.g. dispersal…”
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Plant β-diversity in fragmented rain forests: testing floristic homogenization and differentiation hypotheses by Arroyo-Rodríguez, Victor, Rös, Matthias, Escobar, Federico, Melo, Felipe P. L., Santos, Bráulio A., Tabarelli, Marcelo, Chazdon, Robin

“…1. Land-use change is the main driver of global biodiversity loss, but its relative impact on species turnover (β-diversity) across multiple spatial scales…”
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Leaf-cutting ants alter seedling assemblages across second-growth stands of Brazilian Atlantic forest by Silva, Paulo S. D., Leal, Inara R., Wirth, Rainer, Melo, Felipe P. L., Tabarelli, Marcelo

“…Secondary forests promote an increased abundance of leaf-cutting ants (LCA) but the consequences on forest dynamics have been poorly addressed. Here we examine…”
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Phylogenetic impoverishment of Amazonian tree communities in an experimentally fragmented forest landscape by Santos, Bráulio A, Tabarelli, Marcelo, Melo, Felipe P L, Camargo, José L C, Andrade, Ana, Laurance, Susan G, Laurance, William F

“…Amazonian rainforests sustain some of the richest tree communities on Earth, but their ecological and evolutionary responses to human threats remain poorly…”
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Seed-dispersal ecology of tropical montane forests by Chapman, Hazel, Cordeiro, Norbert J., Dutton, Paul, Wenny, Dan, Kitamura, Shumpei, Kaplin, Beth, Melo, Felipe P. L., Lawes, Michael J.

“…Seed-dispersal ecology in tropical montane forests (TMF) differs in some predictable ways from tropical lowland forests (TLF). Environmental, biogeographic and…”
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The Nature of Seedling Assemblages in a Fragmented Tropical Landscape: Implications for Forest Regeneration by Santo-Silva, Edgar E., Almeida, Wanessa R., Melo, Felipe P. L., Zickel, Carmen S., Tabarelli, Marcelo

“…Whether aging forest fragments are able to recover original assemblages or progressively move toward impoverished successional stages remains as an open…”
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Winner–Loser Species Replacements in Human-Modified Landscapes by Filgueiras, Bruno K.C., Peres, Carlos A., Melo, Felipe P.L., Leal, Inara R., Tabarelli, Marcelo

“…Community assembly arguably drives the provision of ecosystem services because they critically depend on which and how species coexist. We examine conspicuous…”
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Multidimensional tropical forest recovery by Poorter, Lourens, Craven, Dylan, Jakovac, Catarina C, van der Sande, Masha T, Amissah, Lucy, Bongers, Frans, Chazdon, Robin L, Farrior, Caroline E, Kambach, Stephan, Meave, Jorge A, Muñoz, Rodrigo, Norden, Natalia, Rüger, Nadja, van Breugel, Michiel, Almeyda Zambrano, Angélica María, Amani, Bienvenu, Andrade, José Luis, Brancalion, Pedro H S, Broadbent, Eben N, de Foresta, Hubert, Dent, Daisy H, Derroire, Géraldine, DeWalt, Saara J, Dupuy, Juan M, Durán, Sandra M, Fantini, Alfredo C, Finegan, Bryan, Hernández-Jaramillo, Alma, Hernández-Stefanoni, José Luis, Hietz, Peter, Junqueira, André B, N'dja, Justin Kassi, Letcher, Susan G, Lohbeck, Madelon, López-Camacho, René, Martínez-Ramos, Miguel, Melo, Felipe P L, Mora, Francisco, Müller, Sandra C, N'Guessan, Anny E, Oberleitner, Florian, Ortiz-Malavassi, Edgar, Pérez-García, Eduardo A, Pinho, Bruno X, Piotto, Daniel, Powers, Jennifer S, Rodríguez-Buriticá, Susana, Rozendaal, Danaë M A, Ruíz, Jorge, Tabarelli, Marcelo, Teixeira, Heitor Mancini, Valadares de Sá Barretto Sampaio, Everardo, van der Wal, Hans, Villa, Pedro M, Fernandes, Geraldo W, Santos, Braulio A, Aguilar-Cano, José, de Almeida-Cortez, Jarcilene S, Alvarez-Davila, Esteban, Arreola-Villa, Felipe, Balvanera, Patricia, Becknell, Justin M, Cabral, George A L, Castellanos-Castro, Carolina, de Jong, Ben H J, Nieto, Jhon Edison, Espírito-Santo, Mário M, Fandino, Maria C, García, Hernando, García-Villalobos, Daniel, Hall, Jefferson S, Idárraga, Alvaro, Jiménez-Montoya, Jaider, Kennard, Deborah, Marín-Spiotta, Erika, Mesquita, Rita, Nunes, Yule R F, Ochoa-Gaona, Susana, Peña-Claros, Marielos, Pérez-Cárdenas, Nathalia, Rodríguez-Velázquez, Jorge, Villanueva, Lucía Sanaphre, Schwartz, Naomi B, Steininger, Marc K, Veloso, Maria D M, Vester, Henricus F M, Vieira, Ima C G, Williamson, G Bruce, Zanini, Kátia, Hérault, Bruno

“…Tropical forests disappear rapidly because of deforestation, yet they have the potential to regrow naturally on abandoned lands. We analyze how 12 forest…”
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A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world-wide by Pierce, Simon, Negreiros, Daniel, Cerabolini, Bruno E. L., Kattge, Jens, Díaz, Sandra, Kleyer, Michael, Shipley, Bill, Wright, Stuart Joseph, Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A., Onipchenko, Vladimir G., van Bodegom, Peter M., Frenette-Dussault, Cedric, Weiher, Evan, Pinho, Bruno X., Cornelissen, Johannes H. C., Grime, John Philip, Thompson, Ken, Hunt, Roderick, Wilson, Peter J., Buffa, Gabriella, Nyakunga, Oliver C., Reich, Peter B., Caccianiga, Marco, Mangili, Federico, Ceriani, Roberta M., Luzzaro, Alessandra, Brusa, Guido, Siefert, Andrew, Barbosa, Newton P. U., Chapin, Francis Stuart, Cornwell, William K., Fang, Jingyun, Fernandes, Geraldo Wilson, Garnier, Eric, Le Stradic, Soizig, Peñuelas, Josep, Melo, Felipe P. L., Slaviero, Antonio, Tabarelli, Marcelo, Tampucci, Duccio

“…Summary Competitor, stress‐tolerator, ruderal (CSR) theory is a prominent plant functional strategy scheme previously applied to local floras. Globally, the…”
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Adding forests to the water–energy–food nexus by Melo, Felipe P. L., Parry, Luke, Brancalion, Pedro H. S., Pinto, Severino R. R., Freitas, Joaquim, Manhães, Adriana P., Meli, Paula, Ganade, Gislene, Chazdon, Robin L.

“…Forest and landscape restoration is a promising strategy for improving water, energy and food securities. We advocate that ‘forest security’ should form a…”
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Tradeoffs and synergies between food security and forest cover in Brazilian drylands by Alencar, Lucas, Baldauf, Cristina, Manhães, Adriana Pellegrini, Melo, Felipe P. L.

“…Abstract Global food demand is expected to increase in the next decades, pushing agricultural expansion and deforestation. However, food production in…”
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Fuleco™ revisited: Football, conservation and lessons learned from the 2014 FIFA World Cup by Bernard, Enrico, Melo, Felipe P. L.

“…In 2014, Brazil hosted the FIFA World Cup (FWC), whose mascot was the Brazilian Three‐banded armadillo (Tolypeutes tricinctus). In an article published in…”
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Priority setting for scaling-up tropical forest restoration projects: Early lessons from the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact by Melo, Felipe P.L., Pinto, Severino R.R., Brancalion, Pedro H.S., Castro, Pedro S., Rodrigues, Ricardo R., Aronson, James, Tabarelli, Marcelo

“…•Scaling-up restoration implies increasing the number and average size of projects.•Restoration demands: technology, training, clear laws and economic…”
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