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Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research
Carvalho, Raquel L.; Resende, Angelica F.; Barlow, Jos; França, Filipe M.; Moura, Mario R.; Maciel, Rafaella; Alves-Martins, Fernanda; Shutt, JackBiodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain underst...
A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: Th...
Gardner, Toby Alan; Ferreira, Joice Nunes; Barlow, Jos; Lees, Alexander C.; Parry, Luke; Guimarães Vieira, Ima Cèlia; Berenguer, ErikaScience has a critical role to play in guiding more sustainable development trajectories. Here, we present the Sustainable Amazon Network (Rede Amazônia Sustentável, RAS): a multidisciplinary research initiative involving more than 30 partner organizations working to assess both social and ecological dimensions of land-use sustainability in eastern Brazilian Amazonia. The research approach adopted by RAS offers...
Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from...
Solar, Ricardo Ribeiro de Castro; Barlow, Jos; Lennox, Gareth D.; Ferreira, Joice; Berenguer, Erika; Lees, Alexander C.; Nally, Ralph MacConcerted political attention has focused on reducing deforestation1,2,3, and this remains the cornerstone of most biodiversity conservation strategies4,5,6. However, maintaining forest cover may not reduce anthropogenic forest disturbances, which are rarely considered in conservation programmes6. These disturbances occur both within forests, including selective logging and wildfires7,8, and at the landscape le...
Assessing the importance of intraspecific variability in dung beetle functional...
Griffiths, Hannah M.; Louzada, Julio; Bardgett, Richard D.; Barlow, JosÍndices de diversidade funcional são usados para facilitar uma compreensão mecanicista de muitas questões teóricas e aplicadas na pesquisa ecológica atual. O uso de valores médios de traço em índices funcionais assume que os traços são robustos, na medida em que existe maior variabilidade entre as espécies. Embora a afirmação de características robustas tenha sido explorada em plantas, existe pouca informação...
Factors influencing the production of pygidial secretions in the dung roller be...
Louzada, Julio
Towards environmentally sustainable agriculture in Brazil: challenges and oppor...
Louzada, Julio