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Climate change threatens Cerrado anurans.

∼70% of anuran species tend to lose potential distribution areas.

Not all species are likely to be equally affected by climate change.

Anurans’ responses to climate change are mediated by biogeographic character.

Agriculture-frontier classification allows organizing social-ecological processes.

Forest exploitation and real-estate transactions are daily drivers in the early stages.

Global agribusiness and livestock are drivers dominating the advanced stages.

Only crop replacement takes place during mature frontier stages.

Extra-regional people and governments are mentioned as the responsible social actors.

Caatinga dry forests are becoming increasingly drier and chronically disturbed.

Herb communities negatively respond to rainfall reduction and increase disturbance.

Responses may be mediated by the local density of woody plants.

Multiple successional pathways should emerge with the new environmental conditions.

Management and conservation actions are urgent to protect Caatinga herb diversity.

Simulations show that neutral processes and reduced dispersal across rivers can maintain two species in allopatry for many generations.

Reduced dispersal maintained allopatry despite repeated river crossings allowing rivers to act as effective secondary barriers.

Neutral processes across contact zones provide a potential mechanism for the maintenance of Amazonian biodiversity.

More understanding of the dispersal characteristics of organisms and factors that limit river crossing are needed to make predictions about the role of rivers in maintaining Amazonian biodiversity.

Anthropization drives directional changes on functional traits of bird communities of Neotropical seasonal forests.

Birds within anthropized habitat have short life cycles, rapid development, high fecundity, and broad ecological niches.

According to the Ecological Strategies Theory, birds could show the ruderal strategy within the perturbed anthropic habitat.

9847 wasps classified into 75 species and 23 genera were recorded.

Inter-habitat dissimilarity decreased with increasing forest cover in the landscape.

Landscape diversity, edge density, and pesticide usage did not affect spillover.

Forested landscapes provide more spillover opportunities than do crop landscapes.

We compared the 8 components of the Human Influence Index (HII) on cause-specific mortality of North American mammals.

Human population density had greatest positive influence on proportion of anthropogenic mortality.

Conservation programs may be enhanced by more strongly considering the effects of human population density to conserve mammal populations.

Neotropical governments and their environmental agencies have generally poor governance.

Poor governance can be influencing human-top predator conflicts in the Neotropics.

Forty percent of interviewees disapproved the current top-down local management.

Disapproval of top-down local management influenced human tolerance independently.

Neotropics need a better balance between bottom-up and top-down governance.

Small forest-steppe parches are embedded in pine plantation matrix in Central-Europe.

Species turnover was higher for steppes than for forests, steppes are more isolated.

Habitat type, fragments size and matrix quality affects plants spiders and ants.

The habitat-specific matrix quality effects call for a situation-specific management.

Establishing native tree plantation and extensive grasslands conserve the biota.

Here we demonstrated that large mammalian herbivores play a fundamental role in plant consumption and trampling.

Because large herbivore activities are associated to palm fruit patches, we found that palm-herbivore association is an important component to understand forest productivity.

Defaunation and palm harvesting can lead to important changes in forest structure, biomass and diversity in tropical forests.