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Pathways to positive scenarios for the Amazon forest in Pará state, Brazil [Cam...
Siqueira-Gay, Juliana; Yanai, Aurora Miho; Lessmann, Janeth; Pessôa, Ana Carolina M.; Borja, Danilo; Canova, Moara Almeida; Borges, Rafael CabralInfrastructure projects and agriculture expansion are increasingly threatening forest conservation in Pará state (Brazil). It becomes necessary to address the implications of these activities on the Amazon complex socio-ecological system, considering both material and non-material aspects of Nature´s Contributions to People (NCP). Multiple studies developed future scenarios for the Amazon, but only a few have f...
Validating anthropogenic threat maps as a tool for assessing river ecological i...
Lessmann, Janeth; Troya, Maria J.; Flecker, Alexander S; Funk, W Chris; Guayasamin, Juan M.; Ochoa-Herrera, Valeria; Poff, N LeRoy; Suarez, EstebánAnthropogenic threat maps are commonly used as a surrogate for the ecological integrity of rivers in freshwater conservation, but a clearer understanding of their relationships is required to develop proper management plans at large scales. Here, we developed and validated empirical models that link the ecological integrity of rivers to threat maps in a large, heterogeneous and biodiverse Andean-Amazon watershe...
Freshwater vertebrate and invertebrate diversity patterns in an Andean-Amazon b...
Lessmann, Janeth; Guayasamin, Juan M.; Casner, Kayce L.; Flecker, Alexander S.; Funk, W. Chris; Ghalambor, Cameron K.; Gill, Brian A.The Napo Basin in Ecuador is an important drainage of the Amazon Basin, the most biodiverse ecosystem for freshwater species. At the same time, this basin has conspicuous information gaps on its biodiversity patterns and human threats. Here, we estimated the diversity distribution patterns of freshwater vertebrates and invertebrates in the Napo Basin, as a tool for present and future management and conservation...