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List of works by Maíra Benchimol

AMAZONIA CAMTRAP: A dataset of mammal, bird, and reptile species recorded with camera traps in the Amazon forest

scientific article published in 2022

Anthropogenic modulators of species-area relationships in Neotropical primates: a continental-scale analysis of fragmented forest landscapes

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Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests

scientific article published on 5 March 2025

Deforestation drives functional diversity and fruit quality changes in a tropical tree assemblage

scientific article published on 08 September 2017

Designing optimal human-modified landscapes for forest biodiversity conservation

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Determinants of population persistence and abundance of terrestrial and arboreal vertebrates stranded in tropical forest land-bridge islands

scientific article published on 27 August 2020

Drivers of leafcutter ant populations and their inter‐trophic relationships in Amazonian forest islands

scientific article published on 24 May 2021

Ecological correlates of mammal β-diversity in Amazonian land-bridge islands: from small- to large-bodied species

scientific article published in 2018

Edge-mediated compositional and functional decay of tree assemblages in Amazonian forest islands after 26 years of isolation

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Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on bird functional diversity: A global meta-analysis

scientific article published on 08 May 2020

Effects of forest degradation on Amazonian ferns in a land‐bridge island system as revealed by non‐specialist inventories

scientific article published on 20 January 2022

Emergent properties of species-habitat networks in an insular forest landscape

scientific article published in 2022

Functional biogeography of Neotropical moist forests: Trait–climate relationships and assembly patterns of tree communities

scientific article published on 25 May 2021

Functional decay in tree community within tropical fragmented landscapes: Effects of landscape-scale forest cover

scientific article published on 12 April 2017

Functional diversity and trait filtering of insectivorous bats on forest islands created by an Amazonian mega dam

scientific article published on 20 June 2022

Habitat loss and canopy openness mediate leaf trait plasticity of an endangered palm in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

scientific article published in 2021

Influence of fire regime on the taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of frog communities in a fire-prone Brazilian ecosystem

scientific article published in January 2024

Instability of insular tree communities in an Amazonian mega‐dam is driven by impaired recruitment and altered species composition

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Insularization effects on acoustic signals of 2 suboscine Amazonian birds

scientific article published in 2016

Island size predicts mammal diversity in insular environments, except for land‐bridge islands

scientific article published in 2022

Lessons from a Community-Based Program to Monitor Forest Vertebrates in the Brazilian Amazon

scientific article published on 12 May 2017

Losing our palms: The influence of landscape-scale deforestation on Arecaceae diversity in the Atlantic forest

scientific article published on 15 November 2016

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

scientific article published on 30 August 2020

NEOTROPICAL XENARTHRANS: a data set of occurrence of xenarthran species in the Neotropics

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

Patch and landscape features drive fire regime in a Brazilian flammable ecosystem

scientific article published in 2022

Patterns of local extinction in an Amazonian archipelagic avifauna following 25 years of insularization

Phylogenetic homogenization of Amazonian tree assemblages in forest islands after 26 years of isolation

scientific article published on 22 July 2021

Predicting local extinctions of Amazonian vertebrates in forest islands created by a mega dam

Predicting primate local extinctions within "real-world" forest fragments: a pan-neotropical analysis

scientific article

Preserving 40% forest cover is a valuable and well‐supported conservation guideline: reply to Banks‐Leite et al

scientific article

Seed rain in cocoa agroforests is induced by effects of forest loss on frugivorous birds and management intensity

scientific article published on 26 February 2021

Small mammal responses to Amazonian forest islands are modulated by their forest dependence.

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Soil fertility and anthropogenic disturbances drive mammal species richness and assemblage composition on tropical fluvial islands

scientific article published in 2021

Spatial predictors and species’ traits: evaluating what really matters for medium‐sized and large mammals in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil

scientific article published on 12 November 2021

Terrestrial food web complexity in Amazonian forests decays with habitat loss

scientific article published in December 2022

Testing the habitat amount hypothesis and fragmentation effects for medium- and large-sized mammals in a biodiversity hotspot

scientific article published on 20 March 2021

The role of protected and unprotected forest remnants for mammal conservation in a megadiverse Neotropical hotspot

Translating plant community responses to habitat loss into conservation practices: Forest cover matters

Trends and gaps in the literature on native palms of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

scientific article published on 2 April 2023

Tropical forest loss drives divergent patterns in functional diversity of forest and non‐forest birds

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

Which is worse for the red-billed curassow: habitat loss or hunting pressure?

scientific article

Widespread Forest Vertebrate Extinctions Induced by a Mega Hydroelectric Dam in Lowland Amazonia

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Wild ungulate responses to anthropogenic land use: a comparative Pantropical analysis

scientific article published on 07 May 2021

Woody lianas increase in dominance and maintain compositional integrity across an Amazonian dam-induced fragmented landscape

scientific article published on 17 October 2017

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