Publications
A global map of species at risk of extinction due to natural hazards
This study explores the global overlap between species distributions and the occurrences of earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and volcanoes, to show that 10% of all 34,035 assessed terrestrial vertebrates are at risk due to at least one natural hazard, while 5.4% are at high risk. Species at high risk are mainly found in the tropics and on islands. Exposure to natural hazards can augment anthropogenic drivers, thereby compounding their impacts.
Communal tapir latrines are foraging sites for tropical forest vertebrates
Our study describes a novel foraging pattern performed by different species from a variety of habits, sizes, and groups using communal latrines as foraging sites. In the Atlantic Forest, lowland tapir latrines provide an important food resource for some omnivorous, insectivorous, and frugivorous animal species, which frequently visit and spend a substantial amount of time exploiting resources found on latrines.
Frugivory and seed dispersal by the Red-footed Tortoise Chelonoidis carbonaria
Here, we assessed the maximum width of seeds this species could ingest, the mean gut retention time (GRT), and the post-consumption germination capacity for tropical fruit species.
Large mammalian herbivores modulate plant growth form diversity in a tropical rainforest
Here, we experimentally evaluate how large mammalian herbivores affect the dominance, diversity and coexistence of these major tropical forest plant growth forms, by monitoring communities of saplings on the understorey in 43 paired exclusion plots in a long-term replicated exclusion experiment in the understorey of the Atlantic forest of Brazil.
Causes and consequences of large-scale defaunation in the Atlantic forest
In this chapter, we describe the causes and consequences of large-scale defaunation in the Atlantic Forest of South America. We identify and quantify the magnitude of the main anthropogenic drivers of defaunation and stimulate a debate on how to revert the loss of fauna to restore biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services.
ATLANTIC MAMMALS: a data set of assemblages of medium-and large-sized mammals of the Atlantic Forest of South America
Here, we present the ATLANTIC MAMMALS, an open data set on information on medium- and large-sized mammal assemblages in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. A total of 129 studies were compiled, including published and in press peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, theses and unpublished data.
ATLANTIC AMPHIBIANS: a data set of amphibian communities from the Atlantic Forests of South America
Here we present a data set containing information about amphibian communities sampled throughout the Atlantic Forest Biome in South America. The data were extracted from 389 bibliographic references (articles, books, theses, and dissertations) representing inventories of amphibian communities from 1940 to 2017.
Temporal analysis of biological invasion by Pinus spp. in humid area of Cerrado domain
Considering the importance of life history knowledge for the mitigation of exotic species, here we sought to investigate the history of invasion by Pinus in wetlands at the Ecological Station of Itirapina, SP, using near infrared reflectance (NIR) and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for the period 1985–2011.