Summary The Brazilian Atlantic Forest hosts one of the world's most diverse and threatened
tropical forest biota. In many ways, its history of degradation describes the fate experienced …

Natural products continue to provide a diverse and unique source of bioactive lead
compounds for drug discovery, but maintaining their continued eminence as source …

Mapping forest types and tree species at regional scales to provide information for
ecologists and forest managers is a new challenge for the remote sensing community. Here …

Functional biodiversity research explores drivers and functional consequences of
biodiversity changes. Land use change is a major driver of changes of biodiversity and of …

The intrinsic value of biodiversity extends beyond species diversity, genetic heritage,
ecosystem variability and ecological services, such as climate regulation, water quality …

The complex interactions among endangered ecosystems, landowners' interests, and
different models of land tenure and use, constitute an important series of challenges for …

The development of our society has been based on the use of biodiversity, especially for
medicines and nutrition. Brazil is the nation with the largest biodiversity in the world …

We describe herein the design and development of an innovative tool called the NuBBE
database (NuBBEDB), a new Web-based database, which incorporates several classes of …

Ongoing conversion of tropical forests makes it urgent to invest in ecological restoration on
grand scales in order to promote biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services. The 4 …

Over the past 150 years, Brazil has played a pioneering role in developing environmental
policies and pursuing forest conservation and ecological restoration of degraded …