Arlete Silva de Almeida

TL;DR: This work assesses how tree species richness and composition recover during secondary succession across gradients in environmental conditions and anthropogenic disturbance in an unprecedented multisite analysis for the Neotropics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied a municipality in northeastern Para, Brazil, that has been settled for over a century and where numerous cycles of slash and burn agriculture have occurred, and grouped the forests into young (3-6 years), intermediate (10-20 years), advanced (40-70 years), and mature successional stages using 1999 Landsat 7 ETM imagery.

TL;DR: How the abundance of Leguminosae is affected by both recovery from disturbance and large-scale rainfall gradients is shown through a synthesis of forest inventory plots from a network of 42 Neotropical forest chronosequences.

TL;DR: It is found that oil palm plantations retained impoverished avian communities with a similar species composition to pastures and agrarian land-uses and did not offer habitat for most forest-associated species, including restricted range species and species of conservation concern.

TL;DR: A Floresta Amazonica representa a ultima grande extensao de florestas tropicais do planeta and o Brasil detem a maior part of the floresta as discussed by the authors.