Search Results - "Rosa, Isabel M D"
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Global vulnerability of soil ecosystems to erosion
Published in Landscape ecology (01-04-2020)“…Context Soil erosion is one of the main threats driving soil degradation across the globe with important impacts on crop yields, soil biota, biogeochemical…”
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Modeling the Brazilian Cerrado land use change highlights the need to account for private property sizes for biodiversity conservation
Published in Scientific reports (24-02-2024)“…Simulating future land use changes can be an important tool to support decision-making, especially in areas that are experiencing rapid anthropogenic pressure,…”
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Predictive modelling of contagious deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Published in PloS one (18-10-2013)“…Tropical forests are diminishing in extent due primarily to the rapid expansion of agriculture, but the future magnitude and geographical distribution of…”
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transparency, reliability and utility of tropical rainforest land‐use and land‐cover change models
Published in Global change biology (01-06-2014)“…Land‐use and land‐cover (LULC) change is one of the largest drivers of biodiversity loss and carbon emissions globally. We use the tropical rainforests of the…”
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Spatial and temporal dimensions of landscape fragmentation across the Brazilian Amazon
Published in Regional environmental change (01-08-2017)“…The Brazilian Amazon in the past decades has been suffering severe landscape alteration, mainly due to anthropogenic activities, such as road building and land…”
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Using landscape history to predict biodiversity patterns in fragmented landscapes
Published in Ecology letters (01-10-2013)“…Landscape ecology plays a vital role in understanding the impacts of land‐use change on biodiversity, but it is not a predictive discipline, lacking…”
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Classification success of six machine learning algorithms in radar ornithology
Published in Ibis (London, England) (01-01-2016)“…Radar systems have been increasingly used to monitor birds. To take full advantage of the large datasets provided by radars, researchers have implemented…”
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Modelling land cover change in the Brazilian Amazon: temporal changes in drivers and calibration issues
Published in Regional environmental change (01-01-2015)“…Land cover change (LCC) models are used in many studies of human impacts on the environment, but knowing how well these models predict observed changes in the…”
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A Conceptual Framework to Integrate Biodiversity, Ecosystem Function, and Ecosystem Service Models
Published in Bioscience (01-11-2022)“…Global biodiversity and ecosystem service models typically operate independently. Ecosystem service projections may therefore be overly optimistic because they…”
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Changes in Size of Deforested Patches in the Brazilian Amazon
Published in Conservation biology (01-10-2012)“…Different deforestation agents, such as small farmers and large agricultural businesses, create different spatial patterns of deforestation. We analyzed the…”
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Emerging threats from deforestation and forest fragmentation in the Wallacea centre of endemism
Published in Environmental research letters (01-09-2021)“…Abstract The Wallacea biogeographic region of Sulawesi, the Moluccas and Lesser Sunda is globally renowned for exceptional endemism, but is currently emerging…”
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Change versus stability: are protected areas particularly pressured by global land cover change?
Published in Landscape ecology (01-12-2019)“…Context Land cover change is a global multi-scale process affecting ecosystems, with potential implications for ecological processes and for the biological…”
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Influence of landscape features on urban land surface temperature: Scale and neighborhood effects
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-06-2021)“…Higher land surface temperature (LST) in cities than its surrounding areas presents a major sustainability challenge for cities. Adaptation and mitigation of…”
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Identifying priority regions and territorial planning strategies for conserving native vegetation in the Cerrado (Brazil) under different scenarios of land use changes
Published in The Science of the total environment (10-02-2022)“…The Cerrado biome covers approximately 20% of Brazil and it is crucial for the Water, Food, Energy, and Ecosystems (WFEE) nexus. Thus, in recent years, large…”
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Mining threats in high‐level biodiversity conservation policies
Published in Conservation biology (01-08-2024)“…Amid a global infrastructure boom, there is increasing recognition of the ecological impacts of the extraction and consumption of construction minerals, mainly…”
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The Environmental Legacy of Modern Tropical Deforestation
Published in Current biology (22-08-2016)“…Tropical deforestation has caused a significant share of carbon emissions and species losses, but historical patterns have rarely been explicitly considered…”
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The importance of Legal Reserves for protecting the Pantanal biome and preventing agricultural losses
Published in Journal of environmental management (15-04-2020)“…Considering scenarios of future changes in land use have the potential to support policy-makers in drafting environmental laws to reconcile the demands of…”
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A New Approach to Evaluate and Reduce Uncertainty of Model-Based Biodiversity Projections for Conservation Policy Formulation
Published in Bioscience (01-12-2021)“…Biodiversity projections with uncertainty estimates under different climate, land-use, and policy scenarios are essential to setting and achieving…”
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Multiscale scenarios for nature futures
Published in Nature ecology & evolution (01-10-2017)“…Targets for human development are increasingly connected with targets for nature, however, existing scenarios do not explicitly address this relationship…”
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Drivers and projections of vegetation loss in the Pantanal and surrounding ecosystems
Published in Land use policy (01-02-2020)“…•The first study to simulate the loss of vegetation on properties for the Pantanal.•The drivers of vegetation loss of the lowland differed from those for the…”
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