Conservation issues in the Brazilian Atlantic forest

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Beyond the Fragmentation Threshold Hypothesis: Regime Shifts in Biodiversity Across Fragmented Landscapes (2010, background): “The Atlantic forest is the second largest tropical forest in South America and is characterized by having both an extremely rich and endemic biota, while also being one the most imperilled tropical forest ecosystems in the world [34].”
Fragmentation drives tropical forest fragments to early successional states: A modelling study for Brazilian Atlantic forests (2011, background): “, 2004), but it is still considered a hotspot of biodiversity (Myers et al., 2000; Laurance, 2009;Metzger and Sodhi, 2009).”
Frugivores at higher risk of extinction are the key elements of a mutualistic network (2014, background): “We studied three networks of plants and fruit-eating birds in the Atlantic forest of southeastern Brazil, one of the most threatened biodiversity hotspots (Metzger 2009).”
Resource degradation, marginalization, and poverty in small-scale fisheries: threats to social-ecological resilience in India and Brazil (2014, background): “Paraty, on the southeastern coast of Brazil, is a municipality located inside the remnants of the Atlantic Forest, one of the world’s hotspots for biodiversity conservation (Metzger 2009).”
A new genus and species of rodent from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae: Oryzomyini), with comments on oryzomyine biogeography (2011, unknown): “Metzger JP. 2009.”