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Effects of forest fragmentation on small mammals in an Atlantic Forest landscape by Pardini, Renata

“…Recent studies on the effects of tropical forest fragmentation indicate that fragmented landscapes are complex and heterogeneous systems influenced by factors…”
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Forest loss and the biodiversity threshold: an evaluation considering species habitat requirements and the use of matrix habitats by Estavillo, Candelaria, Pardini, Renata, da Rocha, Pedro Luís Bernardo

“…Habitat loss is the main driver of the current biodiversity crisis, a landscape-scale process that affects the survival of spatially-structured populations…”
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Using ecological thresholds to evaluate the costs and benefits of set-asides in a biodiversity hotspot by Banks-Leite, Cristina, Pardini, Renata, Tambosi, Leandro R., Pearse, William D., Bueno, Adriana A., Bruscagin, Roberta T., Condez, Thais H., Dixo, Marianna, Igari, Alexandre T., Martensen, Alexandre C., Metzger, Jean Paul

“…Ecological set-asides are a promising strategy for conserving biodiversity in human-modified landscapes; however, landowner participation is often precluded by…”
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Neotropical forest expansion during the last glacial period challenges refuge hypothesis by Leite, Yuri L. R., Costa, Leonora P., Loss, Ana Carolina, Rocha, Rita G., Batalha-Filho, Henrique, Bastos, Alex C., Quaresma, Valéria S., Fagundes, Valéria, Paresque, Roberta, Passamani, Marcelo, Pardini, Renata

“…The forest refuge hypothesis (FRH) has long been a paradigm for explaining the extreme biological diversity of tropical forests. According to this hypothesis,…”
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Beyond the fragmentation threshold hypothesis: regime shifts in biodiversity across fragmented landscapes by Pardini, Renata, Bueno, Adriana de Arruda, Gardner, Toby A, Prado, Paulo Inácio, Metzger, Jean Paul

“…Ecological systems are vulnerable to irreversible change when key system properties are pushed over thresholds, resulting in the loss of resilience and the…”
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Assessing the utility of statistical adjustments for imperfect detection in tropical conservation science by Banks‐Leite, Cristina, Pardini, Renata, Boscolo, Danilo, Cassano, Camila Righetto, Püttker, Thomas, Barros, Camila Santos, Barlow, Jos, Matthiopoulos, Jason

“…In recent years, there has been a fast development of models that adjust for imperfect detection. These models have revolutionized the analysis of field data,…”
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Ecological filtering or random extinction? Beta-diversity patterns and the importance of niche-based and neutral processes following habitat loss by Püttker, Thomas, de Arruda Bueno, Adriana, Prado, Paulo I., Pardini, Renata

“…Although both niche-based and neutral processes are involved in community assembly, most models on the effects of habitat loss are stochastic, assuming neutral…”
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Carbon-focused conservation may fail to protect the most biodiverse tropical forests by Ferreira, Joice, Lennox, Gareth D., Gardner, Toby A., Thomson, James R., Berenguer, Erika, Lees, Alexander C., Mac Nally, Ralph, Aragão, Luiz E. O. C., Ferraz, Silvio F. B., Louzada, Julio, Moura, Nárgila G., Oliveira, Victor H. F., Pardini, Renata, Solar, Ricardo R. C., Vieira, Ima C. G., Barlow, Jos

“…As one of Earth’s most carbon-dense regions, tropical forests are central to climate change mitigation efforts. Their unparalleled species richness also makes…”
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Towards a pragmatic view of theories in ecology by Travassos‐Britto, Bruno, Pardini, Renata, El‐Hani, Charbel N., Prado, Paulo I.

“…Ecology has received many criticisms concerning its theoretical maturity, often on the grounds that it lacks laws and, therefore, a clear and unified…”
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A pragmatic approach for producing theoretical syntheses in ecology by Travassos-Britto, Bruno, Pardini, Renata, El-Hani, Charbel N, Prado, Paulo I

“…It has been proposed that ecological theory develops in a pragmatic way. This implies that ecologists are free to decide what, from the knowledge available to…”
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Habitat Heterogeneity and Geographic Location as Major Drivers of Cerrado Small Mammal Diversity Across Multiple Spatial Scales by Carmignotto, Ana Paula, Pardini, Renata, de Vivo, Mario

“…The Cerrado biome is one of the global hotspots of biodiversity, and non-volant small mammals represent a significant portion of Cerrado species richness (45%)…”
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Fostering inter- and transdisciplinarity in discipline-oriented universities to improve sustainability science and practice by Rocha, Pedro Luís Bernardo da, Pardini, Renata, Viana, Blandina Felipe, El-Hani, Charbel N.

“…Many problems we face today, including sustainability issues, are complex and encompass intertwined systems. As such, they are difficult to understand and…”
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Landscape, Environmental and Social Predictors of Hantavirus Risk in São Paulo, Brazil by Prist, Paula Ribeiro, Uriarte, Maria, Tambosi, Leandro Reverberi, Prado, Amanda, Pardini, Renata, D Andrea, Paulo Sérgio, Metzger, Jean Paul

“…Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) is a disease caused by Hantavirus, which are negative-sense RNA viruses in the family Bunyaviridae that are highly virulent…”
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Performance of camera trapping and track counts for surveying large mammals in rainforest remnants by Espartosa, Karina Dias, Pinotti, Bruno Trevizan, Pardini, Renata

“…Getting information on terrestrial large mammals is particularly difficult in tropical rainforests and in altered landscapes, since the traditionally used…”
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Committing to behavior change: How to prevent dogs from visiting Atlantic Forest remnants? by Tostes Ribeiro, Isabel, Pardini, Renata, Morsello, Carla

“…Behavioral interventions have been applied to induce multiple pro‐environmental changes, yet testing their effects on biodiversity conservation is novel. For…”
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Who Cares about Forests and Why? Individual Values Attributed to Forests in a Post-Frontier Region in Amazonia by Carignano Torres, Patricia, Morsello, Carla, Parry, Luke, Pardini, Renata

“…Understanding the multiple ways people value forests is important, as individual values regarding nature have been shown to partly determine willingness to…”
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Evaluating the legacy of landscape history: extinction debt and species credit in bird and small mammal assemblages in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest by Lira, Paula K., Ewers, Robert M., Banks-Leite, Cristina, Pardini, Renata, Metzger, Jean Paul

“…1. There is now an extensive literature on extinction debt following deforestation. However, the potential for species credit in landscapes that have…”
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Co-occurrence patterns of rodents at multiple spatial scales: competitive release of generalists following habitat loss? by Püttker, Thomas, Barros, Camila S., Pinotti, Bruno T., Bueno, Adriana A., Pardini, Renata

“…Theory predicts that habitat generalist species are excluded by specialist species in optimal habitat for specialists, and empirical data commonly show a shift…”
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The role of forest structure, fragment size and corridors in maintaining small mammal abundance and diversity in an Atlantic forest landscape by Pardini, Renata, de Souza, Sergio Marques, Braga-Neto, Ricardo, Metzger, Jean Paul

“…Using the abundance and distribution of small mammals at 26 sites in an Atlantic forest landscape, we investigated how species abundance and alpha and beta…”
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Immigration rates in fragmented landscapes--empirical evidence for the importance of habitat amount for species persistence by Püttker, Thomas, Bueno, Adriana A, Dos Santos de Barros, Camila, Sommer, Simone, Pardini, Renata

“…The total amount of native vegetation is an important property of fragmented landscapes and is known to exert a strong influence on population and…”
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