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Açaí palm management and the multidimensional erosion of beta diversity across tree assemblages in the Amazon estuarine forest
Madson Antonio Benjamin Freitas, Arleu Barbosa Viana-Junior, Maria Fabíola Barros, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, Elâine Maria dos Santos Ribeiro, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Marcelo Tabarelli
10.1016/j.pecon.2025.06.002
Highlights

  • Increments in açaí palm density through management reduce the taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional beta diversity of the assemblages.

  • Increments support no winner tree species.

  • The Amazon estuarine forest is highly sensitive to increments on açaí palm density.

  • The promises by non-timber forest products can be fragilized by commercial demands.

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Available online 24 July 2025
Heterogeneity in mesocarnivore occupancy highlights the complexity of biodiversity changes in a threatened ecoregion
Marília Marques, Marcelo Magioli, Pedro Monterroso, Gonçalo Curveira-Santos, Camila Righetto Cassano
10.1016/j.pecon.2025.06.006
Highlights

  • Mesocarnivores are a heterogeneous group with distinct responses to environmental and anthropogenic factors.

  • Species’ occupancy exhibited strong interspecific and temporal variation in two protected areas.

  • Anthropogenic disturbances can benefit some mesocarnivores, but is disruptive for the overall mammal assemblage.

  • Forest structure on sampling sites is a key driver of mesocarnivore occupancy.

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Available online 24 July 2025
Wildfires and their toll on Brazil: Who's counting the cost?
Ernandes Sobreira, Wilkinson Lopes Lázaro, Breno Dias Vitorino, Angélica Vilas Boas da Frota, Carlos Eduardo Frickmann Young, Derick Victor de Souza Campos, Cleverson Ricardo Soares Viana, Edvagner de Oliveira, ... Juliano A. Bogoni
10.1016/j.pecon.2025.06.003
Highlights

  • Wildfires in Brazil cause billion-dollar losses, harming biodiversity, health, and the economy.

  • Wildfire spreads toxic smoke across South America, straining the healthcare system.

  • Wildfires cause massive biodiversity loss, and we barely know how to measure it.

  • Despite substantial economic losses in tropical habitats, the Global South remains a low priority.

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Available online 18 June 2025
Legally protected, practically overlooked: The neglect of diffuse seeps in the conservation of Cerrado non-floodplain wetlands
Alessandra Bassani, Natashi A.L. Pilon, Franciele Parreira Peixoto, Caio R.C. Mattos, Fernando A.O. Silveira, Luciano Soares da Cunha, Rafael S. Oliveira
10.1016/j.pecon.2025.06.001
Highlights

  • Non-floodplain wetlands form where groundwater emerges to the surface, forming seeps.

  • Cerrado’s non-floodplain wetlands are key for regional and continental water security.

  • Brazil faces challenges to identify and protect diffuse seeps in wetlands.

  • Despite existing legal protection, Cerrado diffuse seep wetlands face severe threats.

  • Science-policy alignment is key to protecting non-floodplain wetlands effectively.

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Available online 16 June 2025
Ecosystem functional meltdown through biological annihilation in the world’s ecoregions
José F. González-Maya, I. Mauricio Vela-Vargas, Gerardo Ceballos
10.1016/j.pecon.2025.05.002
Highlights

  • Ecosystem function depends on species diversity; effects of species loss on functionality remain unclear.

  • Over 65% of functional diversity in Asia, Europe, and America comes from threatened species.

  • Ecosystems with species at high risk are highly vulnerable to ecological meltdown.

  • Ecological meltdown collapse could drastically affect human lifestyles and global environmental systems.

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Available online 12 June 2025
The long-term absence of natural fires restructures the small-bodied mammal assemblages across a Protected Area of Brazilian Cerrado
Marco Rodrigo de Souza, Manoel dos Santos Filho, Mariella Butti de Freitas Guilherme, Juliano A. Bogoni
10.1016/j.pecon.2025.05.003
Highlights

  • Natural fires shape local environment and its biota.

  • Small-bodied mammal assemblages tend to homogenization in response to prolonged natural fire absence.

  • Big-fires are arguably disastrous, but the absence of natural fires reassembles the biotas.

  • Further technical discussions about fire management in Cerrado are needed.

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Available online 12 June 2025
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation