Forests flanking Brazil's rivers act as "highways" that ... They found 16–20 "dispersal events" when species arrived in the Atlantic forest from the Amazon, and successfully established themselves.

Brazil lost 400 thousand hectares of water surface in 2024. The country’s territory covered by water bodies and reservoirs ...

The Pantanal lies in the west of Brazil. It is hot all year round, with wet and dry seasons. A range of plants grow here, from tropical rainforest trees to grasses. The Atlantic Forest runs along ...

In their study published in the journal Nature Sustainability, the group analyzed a decade's worth of satellite imagery of Brazil's Atlantic Forest region. Finding more time on their hands during ...

The Atlantic Forest initially spanned 500,000 square kilometres, shared between Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. However, only 7.4% of the forest is left today – or about 35,000 square ...

The researchers highlighted two major deforestation hotspots: a northern area covering Bahia and Minas Gerais, where eucalyptus plantations and pasture expansions dominated; and a southern hotspot in ...

Despite having been deforested to the extent that only 10% of its original expanse remains, the Atlantic Forest is still literally in most Brazilians’ back yard. One in every seven people in Brazil ...

Large animals have become scarcer and smaller ones are now predominant, but there have been virtually no global extinctions in the Atlantic Forest according to studies based on the Atlantic Series, a ...

Such challenges, and the opportunities to address them, are exemplified in Brazil’s Amazon and Atlantic Forest biomes. These two tropical forests are of global significance: they sequester and store ...

We offer Global Seminar: Conservation Biology & Practice in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, Global Intensive: Ecology & Evolution in the Galapagos, and Global Intensive: Coral Reef Ecology & Conservation in ...