• The Atlantic Forest of South America: Spatiotemporal dynamics of the vegetation and implications for conservation 

      Vancine, Maurício Humberto; Muylaert, Renata L.; Niebuhr, Bernardo Brandão; Oshima, Júlia Emi Faria; Tonetti, Vinicius; Bernardo, Rodrigo; de Angelo, Carlos; Rosa, Marcos Reis; Grohmann, Carlos Henrique; Ribeiro, Milton Cezar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      The Atlantic Forest in South America (AF) is one of the world's most diverse and threatened biodiversity hotspots. We present a comprehensive spatiotemporal analysis of 34 years of AF landscape change between 1986 and 2020. ...
    • Habitat functionality: Integrating environmental and geographic space in niche modeling for conservation planning 

      Van Moorter, Bram; Kivimäki, Ilkka; Panzacchi, Manuela; Saura, Santiago; Niebuhr, Bernardo Brandão; Strand, Olav; Saerens, Marco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Niche modeling is typically used to assess the effects of anthropogenic landuse and climate change on species distributions and to inform spatial conser-vation planning. These models focus on the suitability of local biotic ...