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High-diversity Atlantic Forest restoration plantings fail to represent local floras
Crislaine de Almeida, J. Leighton Reid, Renato A. Ferreira de Lima, Luis Fernando Guedes Pinto, Ricardo Augusto Gorne Viani
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2025;23:6-11
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  • Forest restoration plantings have lower beta diversity than remnant forests.

  • Plantings are more floristically similar to one another than to regional forests.

  • Trees planted to restore the Atlantic Forest poorly represent local floras.

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Passando a boiada: degazettement and downsizing threaten protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon
Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Thadeu Sobral-Souza, Tiago Shizen Pacheco Toma, Aretha Franklin Guimaraes, Thiago Junqueira Izzo, Marcos Penhacek, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Neucir Szinwelski, ... Philip Martin Fearnside
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 2025;23:1-5
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  • Biodiversity conservation requires the protection and maintenance of protected areas

  • Protected areas store carbon and regulate ecosystem processes

  • Protected areas prevent deforestation and conserve ecosystems and biodiversity

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Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation