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  1. Climate change and biodiversity in Brazil: What we know, what we don’t, and Paris Agreement’s risk reduction potential

    Article • Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, April 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  2. A Cidade do Rio de Janeiro: Hotspot Dentro de um Hotspot de Biodiversidade

    Article • October 2024, Cerceau

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  3. A Floresta da Janela

    Article • October 2024, Cerceau

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  4. A Natureza como Fonte de Soluções para os Desafios da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro: Síntese das Recomendações dos Capítulos

    Article • October 2024, Cerceau

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  5. Identificação dos Fragmentos Florestais para a Conectividade da Paisagem Carioca

    Article • October 2024, Cerceau

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  6. O Papel das Unidades de Conservação e do Reflorestamento na Atenuação das Ilhas de Calor na Cidade do Rio de Janeiro

    Article • October 2024, Cerceau

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  7. O Papel das Unidades de Conservação e do Reflorestamento na Redução do Risco de Enchentes na Cidade do Rio de Janeiro

    Article • October 2024, Cerceau

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  8. O Papel dos Habitats Naturais na Proteção Costeira da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro

    Article • October 2024, Cerceau

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  9. Serviços Ecossistêmicos Culturais das Unidades de Conservação da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro: O Caso do Parque Bondinho Pão de Açúcar

    Article • October 2024, Cerceau

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  10. Um Novo Modelo de Gestão para as Unidades de Conservação Municipais da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro

    Article • October 2024, Cerceau

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  11. Ecosystem services delivered by Brazilian mammals: spatial and taxonomic patterns and comprehensive list of species

    Article • Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, October 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  12. Juçara palm ecological interactions threatened by climate and land‐cover changes

    Article • Biotropica, September 2023, Wiley

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  13. Nature as a solution for shoreline protection against coastal risks associated with ongoing sea-level rise

    Article • Ocean & Coastal Management, March 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  14. Roadless areas in Brazil: land cover, land use, and conservation status

    Article • Regional Environmental Change, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  15. Integrating climate, ecophysiology, and forest cover to estimate the vulnerability of sloths to climate change

    Article • Journal of Mammalogy, June 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  16. Nature-based solutions promote climate change adaptation safeguarding ecosystem services

    Article • Ecosystem Services, June 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  17. Want to prevent pandemics? Stop spillovers

    Article • Nature, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  18. Achieving the Paris Agreement would substantially reduce climate change risks to biodiversity in Central and South America

    Article • Regional Environmental Change, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  19. Impact of invasive marmosets (Primates, Callitrichidae) on bird acoustic diversity in a large neotropical urban forest

    Article • Biological Invasions, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  20. The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics

    Article • Science Advances, February 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Mariana M. Vale, Ted Loch-Temzelides

  21. Choosing among correlative, mechanistic, and hybrid models of species’ niche and distribution

    Article • Integrative Zoology, January 2022, Wiley

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  22. The effectiveness of climate action and land recovery across ecosystems, climatic zones and scales

    Article • Regional Environmental Change, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  23. Macroscale climate change predictions have little influence on landscape-scale habitat suitability

    Article • Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  24. Heading back into the perfect storm: increasing risks for disease emergence in Brazil?

    Article • Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, January 2022, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  25. A less data demanding ecophysiological niche modeling approach for mammals with comparison to conventional correlative niche modeling

    Article • Ecological Modelling, October 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  26. Global land-use and land-cover data for ecologists: Historical, current, and future scenarios

    Article • Biodiversity Informatics, August 2021, The University of Kansas

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  27. Reforestation can compensate negative effects of climate change on amphibians

    Article • Biological Conservation, August 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  28. Endemism increases species' climate change risk in areas of global biodiversity importance

    Article • Biological Conservation, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  29. Are invasive marmosets harmful to Atlantic Forest birds?

    Article • Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, April 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  30. The COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to weaken environmental protection in Brazil

    Article • Biological Conservation, March 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  31. The Program for Biodiversity Research in Brazil: The role of regional networks for biodiversity knowledge, dissemination, and conservation

    Article • Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, January 2021, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  32. NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics

    Article • Ecology, November 2020, Wiley

    Dr octavio monroy-vilchis, Dr Mariana M. Vale, Dr Diego Astúa, Professor Carlos A. Peres, Dr. Raone Beltrão-Mendes

  33. NEOTROPICAL ALIEN MAMMALS: a data set of occurrence and abundance of alien mammals in the Neotropics

    Article • Ecology, November 2020, Wiley

    Dr Mariana M. Vale, Dr. Raone Beltrão-Mendes

  34. Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention

    Article • Science, July 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Ted Loch-Temzelides, Dr Mariana M. Vale

  35. Planning forest restoration within private land holdings with conservation co-benefits at the landscape scale

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, May 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  36. Evolution of altitudinal migration in passerines is linked to diet

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, March 2020, Wiley

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  37. Anomalous Pigmentation in Invasive and Native Marmosets, Callithrix jacchus, Callithrix penicillata (Primates, Callitrichidae), and Their Hybrids in Brazil

    Article • Folia Primatologica, October 2019, Brill

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  38. Can forests buffer negative impacts of land-use and climate changes on water ecosystem services? The case of a Brazilian megalopolis

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  39. A macroecological approach to evolutionary rescue and adaptation to climate change

    Article • Ecography, March 2019, Wiley

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  40. Climate change is likely to affect the distribution but not parapatry of the Brazilian marmoset monkeys (Callithrixspp.)

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, December 2018, Wiley

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  41. Effects of Brazil's Political Crisis on the Science Needed for Biodiversity Conservation

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, October 2018, Frontiers

    Luiz Malabarba, Dr Mariana M. Vale

  42. Endemic birds of the Atlantic Forest: traits, conservation status, and patterns of biodiversity

    Article • Journal of Field Ornithology, September 2018, Wiley

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  43. Planning protected areas network that are relevant today and under future climate change is possible: the case of Atlantic Forest endemic birds

    Article • PeerJ, May 2018, PeerJ

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  44. Entomological surveys of Lutzomyia flaviscutellata and other vectors of cutaneous leishmaniasis in municipalities with records of Leishmania amazonensis within the Bragança region of Pará State, Brazil

    Article • Journal of Vector Ecology, May 2018, Society for Vector Ecology

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  45. Restoring Brazil's road margins could help the country offset its CO2 emissions and comply with the Bonn and Paris Agreements

    Article • Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, April 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  46. Climate Change in South America

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  47. Altitudinal migration by birds

    Article • Journal of Field Ornithology, November 2017, Wiley

    Luciana Barcante, Dr Mariana M. Vale

  48. Misuse of bird digital distribution maps creates reversed spatial diversity patterns in the Amazon

    Article • Biotropica, July 2017, Wiley

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  49. Dismantling Brazil's science threatens global biodiversity heritage

    Article • Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, July 2017, Elsevier

    Luiz Malabarba, Dr Mariana M. Vale

  50. A global map of roadless areas and their conservation status

    Article • Science, December 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  51. Evaluation of the impacts of climate change on disease vectors through ecological niche modelling

    Article • Bulletin of Entomological Research, December 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  52. NEW SOUTHERNMOST RECORDS OF Callithrix geoffroyi (PRIMATES, CALLITRICHIDAE) EXPAND THE SPECIES KNOWN RANGE, IN SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL

    Article • Oecologia Australis, April 2016, Oecologia Australis

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  53. VALUE OF AN URBAN FRAGMENT FOR THE CONSERVATION OF CERRADO IN THE FEDERAL DISTRICT OF BRAZIL

    Article • Oecologia Australis, April 2016, Oecologia Australis

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  54. Patterns of Vertebrate Diversity and Protection in Brazil

    Article • PLOS One, December 2015, PLOS

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  55. Ecological Niche Modelling Predicts Southward Expansion of Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) flaviscutellata (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae), Vector of Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis in South America, under Climate Change

    Article • PLOS One, November 2015, PLOS

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  56. Publication trends in species distribution modeling and the pioneer contribution of Dr. Rui Cerqueira to ecological biogeography and distribution modeling in Brazil

    Article • Oecologia Australis, October 2015, Oecologia Australis

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  57. Neotropical wild cats susceptibility to climate change

    Article • Oecologia Australis, October 2015, Oecologia Australis

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  58. Missing for the last twenty years: the case of the southernmost populations of the Tropical Mockingbird Mimus gilvus (Passeriformes: Mimidae)

    Article • Zoologia (Curitiba), February 2015, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  59. Combining environmental suitability and habitat connectivity to map rare or Data Deficient species in the Tropics

    Article • Journal for Nature Conservation, August 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Mariana M. Vale, Dr. Roberto Leonan Morim Novaes

  60. New records and a taxonomic review prompts reassessment ofLonchophylla bokermanni, a rare bat endemic to the Brazilian Cerrado

    Article • Oryx, July 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  61. FIRST RECORD OF LONCHOPHYLLA PERACCHII DIAS, ESBÉRARD AND MORATELLI, 2013 (CHIROPTERA, PHYLLOSTOMIDAE) IN SÃO PAULO STATE, SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL

    Article • Oecologia Australis, September 2013, Oecologia Australis

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  62. Increasing strict protection through protected areas on Brazilian private lands

    Article • Environmental Conservation, November 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  63. Across‐taxa incongruence in patterns of collecting bias

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, June 2012, Wiley

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  64. Redistribution of Threatened and Endemic Atlantic Forest Birds Under Climate Change

    Article • Natureza & Conservação, January 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  65. Mudanças Climáticas e a Biodiversidade dos Biomas Brasileiros: Passado, Presente e Futuro

    Article • Natureza & Conservação, January 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  66. Mudanças climáticas: desafios e oportunidades para a conservação da biodiversidade brasileira

    Article • Oecologia Brasiliensis, September 2009, Oecologia Australis

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  67. Conservation Challenges for the Austral and Neotropical America Section

    Article • Conservation Biology, July 2009, Wiley

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  68. Abundance, distribution and conservation of the Restinga Antwren Formicivora littoralis

    Article • Bird Conservation International, June 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  69. Hoary-throated Spinetail (Synallaxis kollari)

    Article • March 2009, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  70. Effects of Future Infrastructure Development on Threat Status and Occurrence of Amazonian Birds

    Article • Conservation Biology, August 2008, Wiley

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  71. Biopiracy: conservationists have to rebuild lost trust

    Article • Nature, April 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mariana M. Vale

  72. Abundance, distribution and conservation of Rio Branco Antbird Cercomacra carbonaria and Hoary-throated Spinetail Synallaxis kollari

    Article • Bird Conservation International, September 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mariana M. Vale