… the conservation debate only on forest ecosystems obscures the staggering pace of agricultural
conversion of Brazil's native non-forest ecosystems … and provide key ecosystem services (…

… The NFA65 produced the largest gains for forest ecosystem services, while BAU favored …
, contributing less to the provision of ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation. …

… Federal Decree 750 of 1993 delimited the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and its associated
ecosystems and determined that any logging, forest cutting, or disturbance requires prior …

… as habitat/community diversity, ecosystem processes, and services. We … Brazilian conservation
gaps and to properly indicate where they are in space is through systematic conservation …

… created in Brazil-… to conserve Brazil's wildlife was still incipient until the first half of the
twentieth century. Only in the past 30 years has Brazil experienced major progress in conservation …

… related to our inclusion of intermediate secondary forests and small fragments (<100 ha), …
guidelines for conservation: (i) large mature forest fragments should be a conservation priority; (…

… of forest peoples on populations of large forest animals. The establishment of pristine, tropical
forest parks is an important conservation … of conservation when it identifies forest residents …

… biome, comprised the highest number of studies (63%), while non-forest … Brazil needs
to consider undersampled taxa and to be urgently extended to increasingly degraded non-forest …

… The formation of edges causes a series of changes in microclimate that leads to death of
large trees that provide most of the structure of forested ecosystems. A second set of effects is …

… is no justification for the use of a few taxa as surrogates for the entire biodiversity spectrum.
Conservation … On the other hand, the recent expansion in PAs in Brazil has not resulted in a …