Conservation in Brazil needs to include non‐forest ecosystems

• Published in: Diversity & distributions Vol. 21; no. 12; pp. 1455 - 1460
• Main Authors: Overbeck, Gerhard E, Vélez‐Martin, Eduardo, Scarano, Fabio R, Lewinsohn, Thomas M, Fonseca, Carlos R, Meyer, Sebastian T, Müller, Sandra C, Ceotto, Paula, Dadalt, Letícia, Durigan, Giselda, Ganade, Gislene, Gossner, Martin M, Guadagnin, Demetrio L, Lorenzen, Katrin, Jacobi, Claudia M, Weisser, Wolfgang W, Pillar, Valério D, Loyola, Rafael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Science 01.12.2015; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; John Wiley & Sons Ltd; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Biodiversity; BIODIVERSITY LETTER; Brazil; Conservation; conservation areas; Ecosystem conservation; Ecosystem management; Ecosystem services; Ecosystems; Forest conservation; Forest ecosystems; forests; governance; grassland; issues and policy; Land use; land use change; megadiverse country; monitoring; Protected areas; savanna; Sustainable use; Brazil

In the past decades, Brazil made important progress in the conservation of forest ecosystems. Non‐forest ecosystems (NFE), in contrast, have been neglected, even though they cover large parts of the country and have biodiversity levels comparable to forests. To avoid losing much of its biodiversity...