Changing the course of Earth's climate is increasingly urgent, but there is also a concurrent
need for proactive stewardship of the adaptive capacity of the rapidly changing biosphere …

Human activities have altered the abundance and distribution of animals, reshaping
ecosystems into novel and generally more depauperate configurations. Whereas …

Human activities are fundamentally altering biodiversity. Projections of declines at the global
scale are contrasted by highly variable trends at local scales, suggesting that biodiversity …

The object of curiosity and admiration of scientists and conservationists, the Brazilian
Atlantic Forest is scientifically explored in this book. Over the 23 chapters written by 149 …

Land-use changes are a main driver of modifications in tropical ecosystems, leading to the
loss of species and ecological traits and affecting key ecological functions. Although much …

Forest fragmentation and defaunation are considered the main drivers of biodiversity loss,
yet the synergistic effects of landscape changes and biotic interactions on assemblage …

There is a contemporary trend in many major research institutions to de‐emphasize the
importance of natural history education in favor of theoretical, laboratory, or simulation …

Primary data, such as geographical records of species, are base-line for conservation status
assessments. For many years, data on Brazil's threatened butterflies (58 taxa (based on …

Abstract The Atlantic Forest of South America hosts one of the world's most diverse and
threatened tropical forest biota. After five centuries of European human expansion, most …

Our understanding of mammal ecology has always been hindered by the difficulties of
observing species in closed tropical forests. Camera trapping has become a major advance …