Cristina Banks-Leite

Jul 17, 2024 | nature.com | Cristina Banks-Leite

Jun 14, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Federico Riva |Nick Haddad |Lenore Fahrig |Cristina Banks-Leite

Identifying adequate policies to regulate land use is crucial following the 2022 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) because habitat loss and degradation contribute most to ongoing biodiversity loss (Fahrig, 2017; Haddad et al., 2015).

Nov 16, 2023 | besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jack H. Hatfield |Cristina Banks-Leite |Jos Barlow |Alexander Lees

1 INTRODUCTION The degradation and fragmentation of tropical forests, along with their conversion to production landscapes, is driving widespread defaunation (Canale et al., 2012; Dirzo et al., 2014) with large frugivorous birds particularly affected (Bovo et al., 2018; Bregman et al., 2014). This loss of species can disrupt seed-dispersal networks (da Silva & Tabarelli, 2000), thereby limiting forest regeneration (Galetti et al., 2013; Gardner et al., 2019).

Sep 12, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Jack H. Hatfield |Cristina Banks-Leite |Jos Barlow |Alexander Lees

AbstractSeed dispersal – one of the many services supplied by biodiversity – is a critical process underpinning the resilience of tropical forests. Forest loss or degradation typically leads to defaunation, altering seed transfer dynamics and impairing the ability of forested habitats to regenerate or recover from perturbation.