Carlos A. Peres

Research interests

Publications

• Extinction filters mediate the global effects of habitat fragmentation on animals

  Science · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax9387

• The conservation value of human-modified landscapes for the world’s primates

  Nature Communications · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08139-0

• Creation of forest edges has a global impact on forest vertebrates

  Nature · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24457

• Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

  Science · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal0157

• Dispersal limitation induces long-term biomass collapse in overhunted Amazonian forests

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2016 · 10.1073/pnas.1516525113

• Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals

  Royal Society Open Science · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160498

• Linking plant phenology to conservation biology

  Biological Conservation · 2016 · 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.12.033

• Hydropower and the future of Amazonian biodiversity

  Biodiversity and Conservation · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-016-1072-3

• Defaunation affects carbon storage in tropical forests

  Science Advances · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501105

• Brazil's environmental leadership at risk

  Science · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1260194

• Markedly divergent estimates of A mazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

  Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12168

• Pervasive transition of the Brazilian land-use system

  Nature Climate Change · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2056

• Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

  Science · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1243092

• The ‘few winners and many losers’ paradigm revisited: Emerging prospects for tropical forest biodiversity

  Biological Conservation · 2012 · 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.06.020

• Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

  Nature · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10425

• Prospects for biodiversity conservation in the Atlantic Forest: Lessons from aging human-modified landscapes

  Biological Conservation · 2010 · 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.02.005

• Biodiversity conservation in human-modified Amazonian forest landscapes

  Biological Conservation · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2010.01.021

• Priority areas for the conservation of Atlantic forest large mammals

  Biological Conservation · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2009.01.023

• The Potential for Species Conservation in Tropical Secondary Forests

  Conservation Biology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01338.x

• Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human‐modified world

  Ecology Letters · 2009 · 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01294.x

• Fire-mediated dieback and compositional cascade in an Amazonian forest

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2008 · 10.1098/rstb.2007.0013

• Conservation Value of Remnant Riparian Forest Corridors of Varying Quality for Amazonian Birds and Mammals

  Conservation Biology · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00870.x

• The cost‐effectiveness of biodiversity surveys in tropical forests

  Ecology Letters · 2007 · 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01133.x

• Paradox, presumption and pitfalls in conservation biology: The importance of habitat change for amphibians and reptiles

  Biological Conservation · 2007 · 10.1016/j.biocon.2007.04.017

• Quantifying the biodiversity value of tropical primary, secondary, and plantation forests

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2007 · 10.1073/pnas.0703333104

• Basin‐Wide Effects of Game Harvest on Vertebrate Population Densities in Amazonian Forests: Implications for Animal‐Mediated Seed Dispersal

  Biotropica · 2007 · 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00272.x

• Anthropogenic determinants of primate and carnivore local extinctions in a fragmented forest landscape of southern Amazonia

  Biological Conservation · 2005 · 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.01.045

• Demographic Threats to the Sustainability of Brazil Nut Exploitation

  Science · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1091698

• Bushmeat Exploitation in Tropical Forests: an Intercontinental Comparison

  Conservation Biology · 2002 · 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.00275.x

• Synergistic Effects of Subsistence Hunting and Habitat Fragmentation on Amazonian Forest Vertebrates

  Conservation Biology · 2001 · 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2001.01089.x

• Effects of Subsistence Hunting on Vertebrate Community Structure in Amazonian Forests

  Conservation Biology · 2000 · 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.98485.x

• Effects of habitat fragmentation on plant guild structure in the montane Atlantic forest of southeastern Brazil

  Biological Conservation · 1999 · 10.1016/s0006-3207(99)00085-3

Current projects

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