A5068836825- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Forest ecology and management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Rural Development and Agriculture
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Agricultural and Food Sciences
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Environmental and biological studies
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Sustainable Industrial Ecology
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
Prague Botanical Garden
2024
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
2021-2023
Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
2022
Forest Science and Research Institute
2018-2021
Universidade de São Paulo
2011-2021
Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento
2017
Little is known about the potential of restoration plantations to provide appropriate understory conditions support establishment seeds arriving from neighboring native forests. In this article, we investigated how seedling affected in sites different ages and assessed some environmental factors controlling ecological process. We first compared density richness tree seedlings among 10‐, 22‐, 55‐year‐old within Atlantic Forest region southeastern Brazil. Then, undertook a seed addition...
Abstract International forest landscape restoration commitments have promoted the of millions hectares degraded and deforested lands globally, but few approaches provide both ecologically‐sound financially‐viable solutions for achieving spatial scale proposed. One potential revenue source is selective harvesting timber, a product which there clear global market increasing demand. The use commercially valuable exotic trees may attract farmers to restoration, can be major concern ecologists....
Abstract The central motivation to restore ecosystems at a planetary scale has been reverse degradation and provide multiple environmental benefits, but key global players like governments may be more interested in social outcomes from undertaking restoration, such as job creation. Assessing the opportunities stemming ongoing restoration programmes can leverage additional investments for their implementation support long‐term maintenance. Here, we aimed understand quantify current potential...
Assessing the persistent impacts of fragmentation on aboveground structure tropical forests is essential to understanding consequences land use change for carbon storage and other ecosystem functions. We investigated influence edge distance fragment size canopy structure, woody biomass (AGB), AGB turnover in Biological Dynamics Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) central Amazon, Brazil, after 22+ yr isolation, by combining variables collected with portable profiling lidar airborne laser...
Monitoring ecological restoration has been historically dependent on traditional inventory methods based detailed information obtained from field plots. New paradigms are now needed to successfully achieve as a large‐scale, long‐lasting transformative process. Fortunately, advances in technology allow for unprecedented shifts the way planned, implemented, and monitored. Here, we describe our vision how use of new technologies by generation ecologists may revolutionize monitoring coming...
Edaphic macrofauna must be better studied if we want to take advantage of their full potential for the restoration tropical ecosystems. We investigated changes in edaphic density and diversity along a secondary succession chronosequence Atlantic Forest. Our results show some clear patterns change soil chronosequence. Density did not increase succession, but was correlated with canopy cover. Diversity characterized by high dominance social insects evenness among other groups. conclude has...
Restoring tropical forests still relies on expensive tree planting. Timber production from native trees offers a promising opportunity to make restoration financially viable, but species growth data are lacking. We assessed the potential of forest plantations for producing timber in Atlantic Forest. For that we inventoried chronosequence unmanaged plantation sites with ten commercial species. Then developed models and used Growth-Oriented Logging (GOL) method inform targeted management...
Ecological restoration aims to recover an ecosystem a state before degradation. Comparison reference ecosystems (old‐growth forests) is key component define if goals have been achieved (“success”). Nevertheless, it still unknown how the functional composition of initial community influences trajectory through time. Here, we evaluated success based on six 20‐year‐old forest communities planted in Brazilian Atlantic Forest with distinct combinations ecological groups (pioneers, secondary, and...
Abstract: The lack of implementation well-designed public policies aimed at the conservation natural ecosystems has resulted, a global level, in decline ecosystem functioning and, consequently, contributions they make to people. poor enforcement important environmental legislation Brazil - for instance, “Atlantic Forest Law” (Law n.11.428/2006) and “Forest Code” n.12.651/2012) could compromise overall maintenance services provide. To explore implications different levels federal laws’ within...
Abstract The initiation of a new plant community in restoration area hinge on the performance seedlings post-planting. This study aimed to evaluate impact species functional traits—specific leaf (SLA), wood density (WD), seed dry mass (SDM), and potential height (H)—on seedling after 18 months planting, comparing two planting designs (rows clusters) influence fertilization addition clusters. is riparian tropical forest located at Caraguatatuba municipality, São Paulo, Brazil. We monitored...