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Relevance of ecological and phylogenetic structure of hummingbird-plant relationships in the face of global climate change
Daniela Remolina-Figueroa, David A. Prieto-Torres, Wesley Dáttilo, Luis G. Quijano-Cuervo, Lorena I. Saldaña-Reyes, Adolfo G. Navarro-Sigüenza, María del Coro Arizmendi Arriaga
10.1016/j.pecon.2026.02.004
Highlights

  • Climate change could reduce >50% of hummingbird and plant ranges in Mexico.

  • Sites with high hummingbird phylogenetic diversity show fewer network shifts.

  • Climate seasonality shapes community phylogenetic structure and complexity.

  • Conserving mutualistic networks requires actions at multiple biodiversity levels.

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Available online 16 February 2026
Comparing local ecological knowledge and camera traps to estimate the abundance of mammals and game birds in the Eastern Amazon
Otávio Augusto Pereira Leão-Vulcão, Francesca Belem Lopes Palmeira, Elildo Alves Ribeiro de Carvalho Junior, Juarez Carlos Brito Pezzuti
10.1016/j.pecon.2026.02.008
Highlights

  • The use of signs and tracks can detect ungulate species as efficiently as camera traps.

  • Common species such as deer and agouti are detected efficiently by both methods.

  • Body mass and sociability have little influence on the detection of mammals and birds by local hunters.

  • Signals can contribute to monitoring species with large home ranges and vagility, such as the White-lipped Peccary.

  • The use of signals requires greater sampling effort to reduce variation in detection rates.

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Available online 13 February 2026
Topographic drivers of anthropization in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Guilherme Machado, Caryne Braga, Marcos de Souza Lima Figueiredo, Maria Lucia Lorini, Jayme Augusto Prevedello
10.1016/j.pecon.2026.02.011
Highlights

  • Overall anthropization decreases with increasing slope and elevation.

  • Anthropization is strongly constrained by slope; elevation effects are moderate and variable.

  • Farming drives most anthropization and follows overall constraints.

  • Urbanization responds to slope and ecoregions but not to elevation.

  • Protected areas are concentrated in steeper terrain.

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Available online 9 February 2026
Partitioning autochthonous and allochthonous carbon in mangroves of the Brazilian Amazon coast
Gabriel Carvalho Coppo, Francisco Ruiz, Rodolfo Fagundes Costa, J. Boone Kauffman, Tiago Osório Ferreira, Angelo Fraga Bernardino
10.1016/j.pecon.2026.02.007
Highlights

  • Strong spatial differences in mangrove organic sources due to the Amazon River.

  • Autochthonous carbon predominates (>54%) in estuarine mangroves.

  • Allochthonous carbon makes up 34–38% of surface soil organic carbon.

  • Mangroves in deltaic settings have a 30% lower restoration value.

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Available online 6 February 2026
Nature's rights for threatened tropical coasts
Stephannie Fernandes, Thiago B.A. Couto, Geraldo W. Fernandes, Angelo F. Bernardino, Cecília G. Leal, José Amorim Reis-Filho, Marcelo Oliveira Soares, Clinton N. Jenkins, ... Tommaso Giarrizzo
10.1016/j.pecon.2026.01.001
Highlights

  • Marine ecosystems are increasingly threatened by climate change, rising sea levels and coastal infrastructure development.

  • PEC 3/2022 aims to reform the Brazilian Law to transfer ownership of part of the coastal areas, currently under federal jurisdiction, to the Brazilian states and municipalities.

  • Public opposition to PEC 3/2022 has been surprisingly strong in comparison to other antienvironment regulations proposed recently.

  • Amid these legal and political debates, the Rights of Nature (RoN) framework emerges as a potential tool for strengthening marine ecosystem protection.

  • RoN implementation requires more than legal reform: it needs broad coalitions, including public mobilization and democratic engagement.

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Available online 23 January 2026
Multiscale drivers of species number and composition of bees and wasps in shaded cocoa agroforests
José Victor A. Ferreira, José Carlos Morante-Filho, Danielle Storck-Tonon, Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez, Marina G. Figueiredo, Deborah Faria, Alexandre Somavilla, José Augusto dos Santos-Silva, ... Maíra Benchimol
10.1016/j.pecon.2026.01.002
Highlights

  • Forest cover determines bee species number in cocoa agroforests

  • Shade tree diversity influences bee species composition

  • The intensity of management may favor the number of wasp species

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Available online 20 January 2026
Spatial and temporal changes in the amount of shorebird foraging and roosting habitats in Brazil
Laura Facci Torezan, José Carlos Morante-Filho
10.1016/j.pecon.2026.01.004
Highlights

  • A sharp loss of shorebird foraging habitat was detected in Brazil’s Midwest region.

  • The conversion from wet to dry ecosystems was the primary cause of habitat loss.

  • Consistent spatial reconfiguration occurred in habitats of all Brazilian regions since 1996.

  • Assessing only the total habitat area masks important spatial patterns of change.

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Available online 20 January 2026
Tropical and temperate ecology: How historical geopolitical relations have influenced the structure of knowledge
María Clerici Hirschfeld, Carlos Roberto Fonseca
10.1016/j.pecon.2025.12.005
Highlights

  • We compare tropical and temperate ecology through a scientometric analysis of approximately 500,000 articles.

  • The pattern of collaborations and authorship reveals the consequences of historical geopolitical relations.

  • The BRICS countries play a prominent role in tropical and global ecological research in the 21st century.

  • Temperate and tropical ecology have different conceptual structures.

  • We demonstrated the existence of a temperate bias in ecology.

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Available online 19 January 2026
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation