Paulo Inácio Prado
University of São Paulo
109 Papers
421 Citations
Paulo Inácio Prado is an academic researcher from University of São Paulo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species richness & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 105 publications. Previous affiliations of Paulo Inácio Prado include Federal University of Rio de Janeiro & State University of Campinas.
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Papers
Habitat split and the global decline of amphibians
Carlos Guilherme Becker,Carlos Fonseca,Célio F. B. Haddad,Rômulo Fernandes Batista,Paulo Inácio Prado +4 more
TL;DR: In the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, it is found that habitat split negatively affects the richness of species with aquatic larvae but not the richnessof species with terrestrial development (the latter can complete their life cycle inside forest remnants).
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Beyond the fragmentation threshold hypothesis: regime shifts in biodiversity across fragmented landscapes.
TL;DR: In this article, a new conceptual model was proposed to describe the mechanisms and consequences of biodiversity change in fragmented landscapes, identifying the fragmentation threshold as a first step in a positive feedback mechanism that has the capacity to impair ecological resilience, and drive a regime shift in biodiversity.
How Many Species Are There in Brazil
TL;DR: For taxa lacking information on total known species, this article produced estimates based on bootstrap resampling from a set of 87 taxa with checklists for Brazil and the world.
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Associations of Forest Cover, Fragment Area, and Connectivity with Neotropical Understory Bird Species Richness and Abundance
Alexandre Camargo Martensen,Milton Cezar Ribeiro,Milton Cezar Ribeiro,Cristina Banks-Leite,Cristina Banks-Leite,Paulo Inácio Prado,Jean Paul Metzger +6 more
TL;DR: The results demonstrated a rapid loss of species at relatively high levels of forest cover (30-50%) and highly sensitive species were 3-4 times more common above the 30-50% threshold than below it; however, the results do not support a unique fragmentation threshold.
The erosion of biodiversity and biomass in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot.
Renato A. F. de Lima,Renato A. F. de Lima,Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira,Gregory R. Pitta,André Luís de Gasper,Alexander Christian Vibrans,Jérôme Chave,Hans ter Steege,Hans ter Steege,Paulo Inácio Prado +9 more
TL;DR: An unprecedented dataset of 1819 field surveys covering the entire Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot is used, showing that biomass erosion across the Atlantic Forest remnants is equivalent to the loss of 55−70 thousand km2 of forests or US$2.3−2.6 billion in carbon credits.