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South Brazilian and North American tallgrass grasslands show botanical similarity.
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Fire appears to have a similar ecological role in both regions.
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Fire as ecological process and conservation tool is undervalued in Brazil.
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Brazilian grassland conservation might benefit from North American experiences.
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Comparative ecological studies will improve our understanding of grassland ecology.
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The largest number of restoration attempts was performed in New Zealand.
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The most frequent species were Grus americana and Notiomystis cincta.
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Thirteen drivers were pointed out by researchers and practitioners.
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Considering only environmental causes, predation was the most remarkable driver.
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The restoration of usually degraded roadsides is proposed.
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Thousands of hectares are readily available for restoration in Brazil.
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This corresponds to US$ 26.5 billion in the carbon market.
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The restoration of these wasted public lands can stimulate ecological restoration.
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Monitoring is a challenge for assessing targets for biodiversity agendas.
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Biomonitoring systems can be linked in a network structure.
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Biomonitoring initiatives in Brazil usually lack a clear conceptual framework.
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The Network of Networks approach can promote the articulation of biomonitoring iniciatives.
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Pond systems provide essential and unique landscape functions.
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Unsustainable policies threaten to collapse pond functions in Brazil.
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Emergency measures are necessary to prevent pond extirpation.
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Brazil needs a national policy for wetland conservation.
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High-resolution remote sensing data reveals 28%, or 32 million hectares (Mha), of native vegetation cover in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.
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There are 7.2Mha of degraded riparian areas, of which 5.2Mha at least must be restored before 2038 by landowners for legislation compliance.
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Restoring this existing legal debt could increase native vegetation cover in the biome up to 35%.
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Six mammal pet species were assessed, all resulting in very high risk of invasion.
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Rodents resulted the highest risk level among our analyses.
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Reproductive traits account for the major part of the high risk of evaluated species.
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Food group and ecological interactions were the main traits increasing risk scores of carnivores.
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Aichis Target 11 has not been adequately met.
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Quality of the management of Conservation Units was poor for all indicators.
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The only biome properly covered by Conservation Units in Brazil is the Amazon.
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Areas of Environmental Protection offer poor protection and predominate in the system.
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The funds for management should be at least 3.4 times bigger than current budget.
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Reduction in patch size affects functional trait composition of bird communities.
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Functional richness is directly and positively related to habitat patch size.
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Large-bodied and large-beaked frugivores are most sensitive to patch size reduction.
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Loss of sensitive species potentially hinders seed dispersal for large-fruited trees.
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Conserving large inter-connected patches is key to sustaining ecological processes.
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Brazil fought poverty, environmental destruction, and education shortfalls.
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Succeeding in social and environmental issues made Brazil a leader by example.
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Crisis resulted in drastic cuts of social and environmental funding in Brazil.
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Crisis is justifying a wider gap between science and policy in Brazil.
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To boost the engagement of people in decision-making is mandatory to defeat crisis.
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We simulate different levels of extinctions of fishes following Mariana disaster.
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We asked how extinctions lead to shifts in taxonomic and functional beta-diversity.
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Simulations point to taxonomic subtractive heterogenization after the disaster.
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For functional beta-diversity, functional homogenization prevails.
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The contribution of nestedness increased for taxonomic and functional beta diversity.
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Cats & rodents are widely introduced and damaging mammals on islands around the world.
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Eradication is possible on uninhabited small to medium but not inhabited large islands.
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Management on inhabited islands focuses on agriculture, livelihoods and animal welfare.
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Reticence to management leads to conservation inaction & ultimately biodiversity loss.
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Fernando de Noronha shows the conflict in cat and rodent management on inhabited islands.
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The Brazilian protected area network plays a key role in biodiversity conservation.
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Systematic conservation planning determines the existing conservation gaps.
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Conservation gaps correspond to 16.5% of the Brazilian territory.
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Conservation gaps are unevenly distributed among the Brazilian biomes.
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The Brazilian protected area network should be further expanded.
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We looked into eight Cerrado National Parks and their surroundings.
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Objective landscape biophysical attributes revealed different tourism potentials.
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Rugged terrain offer more opportunities to explore long panoramic views.
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Areas with flat relief are more suited for water recreational activities.
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The study contributes to reduce the gap on cultural ES research in South America.
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Ecology has witnessed a strong conceptual shift.
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Its not realistic to predict the future of ecosystems ignoring human being.
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Ecologists have sought to understand the consequences of more subtle human actions.
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The Niche Construction Theory can help to understand human influences on environment.
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Dogs are not resident, invading the area from surrounding areas.
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Domestic dogs are distributed in the whole area with 0.74–1.37individuals/km2.
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Distance from Park's limits or presence of paved roads do not affect dogs’ occurrence.
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Dogs’ activity was diurnal and native animals with the same pattern would probably be more susceptible to dog's impacts.
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Management strategies should consider the engagement of local people to be successful.
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Native species populations may become overabundant and cause serious harm.
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Super-dominant species are poorly considered in the scientific literature.
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We highlight 16 Brazilian plant species with extreme super-dominant behaviour.
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Human activities trigger super-dominance, which shall intensify with climate change.
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Scientists and decision-makers must work closer to identify and manage super-dominant species.
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Marine Seismic Surveys are a major threat to marine biodiversity worldwide.
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In Brazil, regulation through environmental licensing has 18 years of practice.
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Brazilian mitigation guidelines are recognized among world's most advanced.
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Environmental licensing has commissioned important marine research in Brazil.
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Ongoing institutional reforms jeopardize environmental control of MSS in Brazil.
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Evolution education is critical for current and future natural resources managers.
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Evolutionary theory allows consideration of actions and consequences.
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Natural resources management is practically and legally complex.
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Undergraduate and post-graduate evolutionary theory education is recommended.