Knowledge gaps hamper understanding the relationship between fragmentation and biodiversity loss: the case of Atlantic Forest fruit-feeding butterflies

Background A key challenge for conservation biology in the Neotropics is to understand how deforestation affects biodiversity at various levels of landscape fragmentation. Addressing this challenge requires expanding the coverage of known biodiversity data, which remain to date restricted to a few w...

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Published in:	PeerJ
Main Authors:	Thadeu Sobral-Souza, Juliana Stropp, Jessie Pereira Santos, Victor Mateus Prasniewski, Neucir Szinwelski, Bruno Vilela, André Victor Lucci Freitas, Milton Cezar Ribeiro, Joaquín Hortal
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	PeerJ Inc. 2021-06-01
Subjects:	Biodiversity data Deforestation Butterflies Habitat fragmentation Atlantic Forest Landscape
Online Access:	https://peerj.com/articles/11673.pdf

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