renata cristina batista fonseca

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Departamento de Ciência Florestal, Solos e Ambiente - Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas
Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho"

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  • Network Analysis Highlights the Complementary Roles of Active and Passive Restoration for Birds in a Restored Landscape Mosaic
    Victor R. Antonelli, Caio S. Ballarin, Vagner Cavarzere, Renata C. B. Fonseca
    Austral Ecology, 2025
    Birds are essential in connecting conserved and restored habitats in anthropogenic landscapes, acting as ‘mobile links’ that enhance habitat connectivity. They contribute to key ecological functions that support habitat recovery. Despite their sensitivity to habitat changes, bird assemblages in restored landscapes show varied responses due to factors like the restoration technique employed. This study uses the species–habitat network approach to assess how different restoration techniques and bird functional traits influence bird habitat use and connectivity in the Atlantic Forest. We adapted network metrics—among‐module connectivity and within‐module degree ( c ‐ and z ‐scores, respectively)—to quantify how habitat types contribute to landscape connectivity and to assess how bird functional traits explain patterns of occupancy across restored fragments. We show that actively restored habitats tend to have more exclusive bird species compared to conserved forests, whereas naturally regenerated forests support a broader range of shared bird species. While active restoration often promotes species with specific habitat needs, it may have a more limited role in landscape connectivity, compared to natural regeneration, which better integrates habitat types. These findings suggest that combining active and passive restoration strategies can maximise landscape connectivity, with active restoration providing habitat for species with particular requirements and passive restoration enhancing broader ecosystem recovery through bird occupation. Additionally, our findings indicate that bird functional traits have low explanatory power for patterns of bird habitat use in restored landscapes, emphasising the value of a more detailed network approach that includes species‐specific interactions. Still, the species–habitat network approach revealed key species that help connect different habitat types, highlighting the role of bird species in landscape cohesion. Future research should explore finer network resolutions and larger spatial scales to better capture species movement and habitat dynamics within restoration gradients.
  • The birds of reminiscent and regenerated Semideciduous Atlantic Forest fragments in southeastern Brazil
    Victor Rodrigues Antonelli, Vagner Cavarzere, Renata Cristina Batista Fonseca
    Papeis Avulsos De Zoologia, 2025
    The Botucatu Cuesta region in São Paulo, southeastern Brazil, harbors exceptional avian diversity, with 363 species recorded across just two localities – the Lageado (LEF) and the Edgárdia (EEF) Experimental Farms – representing nearly half of São Paulo’s avifauna. Our study builds upon historical inventories, documenting 32 new species for LEF (bringing the total to 265) and 84 for EEF (now totaling 351). These additions include boreal migrants, such as the Veery Catharus fuscescens, and Atlantic Forest endemics with distributions rarely extending inland, such as the Grey-hooded Attila Attila rufus. Notably, 92% of historically recorded species persist since the 1970s, with losses primarily attributed to wetland degradation (e.g., Rosy-billed Pochard Netta peposaca) and forest-dependent taxa (e.g., Spot-breasted Antvireo Dysithamnus stictothorax). Aquatic species, including the Limpkin Aramus guarauna and Anhinga Anhinga anhinga, have declined due to land-use changes, while others, such as the Spotted Rail Pardirallus maculatus, require further investigation given their likely local rarity. We underscore the urgent need for habitat restoration, particularly wetland management – potentially including the reintroduction of historical rice cultivation – to reestablish suitable habitats for lost species. The Cuesta’s avifauna highlights its conservation priority, yet targeted strategies are essential to counter threats from agricultural expansion and hydrological alterations. This study establishes a critical baseline for future monitoring and emphasizes the region’s pivotal role in conserving Neotropical bird diversity at the Atlantic Forest-Cerrado transition.
  • Atlantic Forest Regeneration Dynamics Following Human Disturbance Cessation in Brazil
    Deicy Carolina Lozano Sivisaca, Celso Anibal Yaguana Puglla, José Raimundo de Souza Passos, Renata Cristina Batista Fonseca, Antonio Ganga, Gian Franco Capra, Iraê Amaral Guerrini
    Environments Mdpi, 2024
    The Brazilian Atlantic Forest (BAF) is one of the most important biodiversity hotspots and species-rich ecosystems globally. Due to human activities, it has been significantly reduced and fragmented. This study examined both biotic (floristic composition, diversity, and structure) and abiotic (topographic and soil) factors in BAF fragments undergoing varying levels and durations of human disturbance cessation: approximately 20 years (20 y), ~30 years (30 y), and over 40 years (>40 y). We aimed to understand the recovery dynamics of floristic composition, diversity, and structure in BAF fragments in relation to abiotic factors. Several statistical tools were employed to examine similarities/differences and relationships. Forests of the 30 y group exhibit significantly greater homogeneity in terms of floristic composition, while forests of the 20 y group are characterized by lower species abundance and diversity. The floristic composition was primarily influenced by soil features and the time of disturbance. Under “Environmental Protection Areas”, soil–vegetation recovery can occur more swiftly than usually observed for BAF. A significant BAF recovery was observed approximately 40 years after the end of human disturbance. A partial recovery featured 30 y disturbed areas, while in 20 y forests, recovery is in its early stages. Human-disturbed BAF can gradually rebound when effective management practices are implemented.
  • Richness and composition of terrestrial mammals vary in eucalyptus plantations due to stand age
    Luís Fernando de Abreu Pestana, Felipe Martello, Renata Cristina Batista Fonseca
    Austral Ecology, 2023
    Plantation forests substitute natural habitats and have rotation cycles of 7 years due to their high growth rates. This variation reflects on local and landscape changes, influencing habitat availability and affecting mammal communities. In this study, our general hypothesis was that the richness and composition of mammals varied in eucalyptus plantations in relation to native forest patches and in relation to the age of eucalyptus plantations. We predicted that (1) there would be lower mammalian richness and compositional differences in eucalyptus plantations compared to native vegetation due to monocultures having simplified environmental characteristics and (2) predicted that the richness and composition would vary according to eucalyptus age and that the highest values of richness would be found in plantations of up to middle age, considering that in these phases there are environmental characteristics that positively qualify these structures for a greater presence of fauna, such as the shrubby aspect of the plantations and the presence of undergrowth. We performed model selection to observe the effect of environmental variables on mammalian richness. We also performed a multivariate permutational analysis of variance, a non‐metric multidimensional scaling and partitioned the beta diversity to observe how the composition was influenced by environmental variables. We found greater richness in the native vegetation compared to eucalyptus plantations. The richness of the plantations varied according to the age, with higher values up to middle age. The composition varied according to the land user/cover, with the eucalyptus age and with the management unit due to the nestedness of species. We suggest that eucalyptus plantations at early ages are more used by mammals due to the shrubby aspect of the stand, generating a positive visual effect for the search of resources and shelter, in addition to the possibility of the occurrence of grasses, some understory and lower anthropogenic disturbance.
  • Human-modified landscapes alter mammal resource and habitat use and trophic structure
    Marcelo Magioli, Marcelo Zacharias Moreira, Renata Cristina Batista Fonseca, Milton Cezar Ribeiro, Márcia Gonçalves Rodrigues, Katia Maria Paschoaletto Micchi de Barros Ferraz
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019
    SignificanceKnowledge of resource and habitat use by wildlife is essential to support conservation actions. Stable isotope analysis (SIA) is a useful method for the acquisition of this type of information. Samples for SIA can be obtained through indirect and noninvasive methods, which is favorable for studies of threatened species. We used SIA to compare the resource and habitat use and trophic structure of mammals between preserved areas and human-modified landscapes in a tropical rainforest. Our study shows that mammals in human-modified landscapes present an altered trophic structure and use food items from the agricultural matrix, while they depend on forest resources in preserved areas. Our findings stress the need for favorable management of the agricultural matrix to support wildlife survival.
  • ATLANTIC BIRD TRAITS: a data set of bird morphological traits from the Atlantic forests of South America
    Rodolpho Credo Rodrigues, Érica Hasui, Julia Camara Assis, João Carlos Castro Pena, Renata L. Muylaert, Vinicius Rodrigues Tonetti, Felipe Martello, André Luis Regolin, Thiago Vernaschi Vieira da Costa, Mauro Pichorim, Eduardo Carrano, Leonardo Esteves Lopes, Marcelo Ferreira de Vasconcelos, Carla Suertegaray Fontana, Andrei Langeloh Roos, Fernando Gonçalves, Cristina Banks‐Leite, Vagner Cavarzere, Marcio Amorim Efe, Maria Alice S. Alves, Alexandre Uezu, Jean Paul Metzger, Paulo de Tarso Zuquim de Antas, Katia Maria Paschoaletto Micchi de Barros Ferraz, Larissa Corsini Calsavara, Arthur Angelo Bispo, Helder F. P. Araujo, Charles Duca, Augusto João Piratelli, Luciano N. Naka, Rafael Antunes Dias, Cassiano A. F. R. Gatto, Marcelo Alejandro Villegas Vallejos, Gregório dos Reis Menezes, Leandro Bugoni, Henrique Rajão, Jairo José Zocche, Guilherme Willrich, Elsimar Silveira da Silva, Lilian Tonelli Manica, André de Camargo Guaraldo, Giulyana Althmann, Patricia Pereira Serafini, Mercival Roberto Francisco, Camile Lugarini, Caio Graco Machado, Fernando Marques‐Santos, Rafaela Bobato, Elivan Arantes de Souza, Reginaldo José Donatelli, Carolina Demetrio Ferreira, José Carlos Morante‐Filho, Natalia Dantas Paes‐Macarrão, Arthur Macarrão, Marcos Robalinho Lima, Lucilene Inês Jacoboski, Carlos Candia‐Gallardo, Vanesa Bejarano Alegre, Alex E. Jahn, Karlla Vanessa de Camargo Barbosa, Cesar Cestari, José Nilton da Silva, Natalia Stefanini Da Silveira, Ana Cristina Vara Crestani, Adeliane Peterle Petronetto, Alex Augusto Abreu Bovo, Anderson Durão Viana, Andrea Cardoso Araujo, Andressa Hartuiq dos Santos, Andreza Clarinda Araújo do Amaral, Ariane Ferreira, Arnaldo Honorato Vieira‐Filho, Bianca Costa Ribeiro, Caio C. C. Missagia, Camila Bosenbecker, Cesar Augusto Bronzato Medolago, Cid Rodrigo Rodriguez Espínola, Claudenice Faxina, Cristiane Estrela Campodonio Nunes, Cristine Prates, Daniela Tomasio Apolinario da Luz, Daniele Janina Moreno, Daniele Mariz, Deborah Faria, Douglas Meyer, Eder Afonso Doná, Eduardo Roberto Alexandrino, Erich Fischer, Fabiane Girardi, Felipe Borba Giese, Felipe Leonardo Santos Shibuya, Fernando Azevedo Faria, Fernando Bittencourt de Farias, Fernando de Lima Favaro, Fernando José Ferneda Freitas, Flávia G. Chaves, Flor Maria Guedes Las‐Casas, Gabriel L. M. Rosa, Gabriel Massaccesi De La Torre, Gabriela Menezes Bochio, Giselle Evelise Bonetti, Glauco Kohler, Guilherme Santos Toledo‐Lima, Gustavo Piletti Plucenio, Ícaro Menezes, Ingrid Maria Denóbile Torres, Ivan Celso Carvalho Provinciato, Ivan Réus Viana, James Joseph Roper, Jaqueline Evelyn Persegona, Jean Júnior Barcik, Jimi Martins‐Silva, João Paulo Gava Just, João Paulo Tavares‐Damasceno, João Ricardo de Almeida Ferreira, Jonas Rafael Rodrigues Rosoni, José Eduardo Teixeira Falcon, Laura Maria Schaedler, Leonardo Brioschi Mathias, Leonardo Rafael Deconto, Licléia da Cruz Rodrigues, Marcela Afonso P. Meyer, Márcio Repenning, Marcos Antônio Melo, Maria Amélia Santos de Carvalho, Marcos Rodrigues, Maria Flavia Conti Nunes, Maria Halina Ogrzewalska, Mariana Lopes Gonçalves, Maurício B. Vecchi, Maurício Bettio, Michelle Noronha da Matta Baptista, Murilo Sérgio Arantes, Nicolás Luciano Ruiz, Paulo Guilherme Bisetto de Andrade, Pedro Henrique Lima Ribeiro, Pedro Manoel Galetti Junior, Phoeve Macario, Rafael de Oliveira Fratoni, Rafael Meurer, Rafael S. Saint‐Clair, Rafael Spilere Romagna, Raquel Caroline Alves Lacerda, Ricardo Augusto Serpa Cerboncini, Ricardo Brioschi Lyra, Ricardo Lau, Roberta Costa Rodrigues, Rogério Rodrigues Faria, Rudi Ricardo Laps, Sérgio Luiz Althoff, Shayana de Jesus, Sumiko Namba, Talita Vieira Braga, Tamara Molin, Thanyria P. França Câmara, Thayz Rodrigues Enedino, Uschi Wischhoff, Vanessa Cristina de Oliveira, Victor Leandro‐Silva, Vitor Araújo‐Lima, Vitor de Oliveira Lunardi, Reginaldo Farias de Gusmão, Jozélia Maria de Souza Correia, Lucas P. Gaspar, Renata Cristina Batista Fonseca, Paulo Affonso Fonseca Pires Neto, Ana Carla Medeiros Morato de Aquino, Bruna Betagni de Camargo, Beatriz Azevedo Cezila, Leonardo Marques Costa, Roberta Montanheiro Paolino, Claudia Zukeran Kanda, Erison C. S. Monteiro, Júlia Emi F. Oshima, Milene Alves‐Eigenheer, Marco Aurelio Pizo, Luís F. Silveira, Mauro Galetti, Milton Cezar Ribeiro
    Ecology, 2019
    Scientists have long been trying to understand why the Neotropical region holds the highest diversity of birds on Earth. Recently, there has been increased interest in morphological variation between and within species, and in how climate, topography, and anthropogenic pressures may explain and affect phenotypic variation. Because morphological data are not always available for many species at the local or regional scale, we are limited in our understanding of intra‐ and interspecies spatial morphological variation. Here, we present the ATLANTIC BIRD TRAITS, a data set that includes measurements of up to 44 morphological traits in 67,197 bird records from 2,790 populations distributed throughout the Atlantic forests of South America. This data set comprises information, compiled over two centuries (1820–2018), for 711 bird species, which represent 80% of all known bird diversity in the Atlantic Forest. Among the most commonly reported traits are sex (n = 65,717), age (n = 63,852), body mass (n = 58,768), flight molt presence (n = 44,941), molt presence (n = 44,847), body molt presence (n = 44,606), tail length (n = 43,005), reproductive stage (n = 42,588), bill length (n = 37,409), body length (n = 28,394), right wing length (n = 21,950), tarsus length (n = 20,342), and wing length (n = 18,071). The most frequently recorded species are Chiroxiphia caudata (n = 1,837), Turdus albicollis (n = 1,658), Trichothraupis melanops (n = 1,468), Turdus leucomelas (n = 1,436), and Basileuterus culicivorus (n = 1,384). The species recorded in the greatest number of sampling localities are Basileuterus culicivorus (n = 243), Trichothraupis melanops (n = 242), Chiroxiphia caudata (n = 210), Platyrinchus mystaceus (n = 208), and Turdus rufiventris (n = 191). ATLANTIC BIRD TRAITS (ABT) is the most comprehensive data set on measurements of bird morphological traits found in a biodiversity hotspot; it provides data for basic and applied research at multiple scales, from individual to community, and from the local to the macroecological perspectives. No copyright or proprietary restrictions are associated with the use of this data set. Please cite this data paper when the data are used in publications or teaching and educational activities.
  • Medium and large-sized mammals in an Atlantic Forest fragment of Brazil: Recording of threatened species
    Vinícius Nunes Alves, Caroline Marques Maia, Telma Regina Alves, Renata Cristina Batista Fonseca
    Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2019
    Deforestation and habitat fragmentation affect to a great extent larger wild mammals, which require large areas to establish their populations. These mammals can have important functions in the structure and dynamics of tropical forests, acting as seed dispersers, herbivory regulators, and umbrella species. In the present paper, we characterize the community of medium and large wild mammals in a semi-deciduous seasonal forest fragment, a denominated IB Forest (Institute of Biosciences) in Edgardia Experimental Farm, UNESP, Botucatu, São Paulo State, Brazil. By adopting sand plots on three trails as the main method, we identified the occurrence of nine species, besides the occurrence of one species by direct visualization. Some of these are in national red lists — Leopardus pardalis and Puma concolor are listed as threatened and Sapajus cf. nigritus as Near Threatened in São Paulo State; Puma concolor is also listed as Vulnerable at the national level. Thus, we emphasize the importance of this forest remnant as a wildlife refuge, which makes it necessary to monitor the occurrence of these animals in the area and conserve similar remnants in the region.
  • Diameter structure and spatial arrangement of the most abundant species in a seasonal semideciduous forest fragment in Botucatu, Southeastern Brazil
    Luiz Alberto Blanco Jorge, Thais Maria Millani, Renata Cristina Batista Fonseca, Aparecido Agostinho Arruda
    Floresta E Ambiente, 2015
    RESUMOFoi feito um estudo sobre a estrutura diamétrica e o arranjo espacial das espécies mais abundantes que ocorrem em um dos cinco fragmentos florestais da Fazenda Experimental Edgardia (1.200 ha), município de Botucatu, SP. A área do remanescente é de 56 ha. Inventariaram-se 185 unidades amostrais contíguas de 100 m2, que compuseram uma amostra de 1,85 ha. Levantou-se a composição florística e estrutura horizontal da vegetação do centro do remanescente. Dentre as dez espécies de maior valor de importância, sete apresentaram abundância que permitiu realizar os estudos sobre distribuição diamétrica e distribuição espacial. O somatório dos índices de valores de importância (IVI) obtidos para as espécies mais abundantes (185,98) mostrou que elas têm uma grande participação na estrutura da vegetação que está se regenerando. Após ajuste das distribuições diamétricas das sete espécies, seis apresentaram um padrão de distribuição na forma de J invertido, refletindo regeneração contínua dos indivíduos dessas espécies. Quatro dessas distribuições foram distinguidas como tipo I (ou distribuição balanceada). As características relacionadas com as distribuições de diâmetros ajustadas auxiliaram na indicação de uma atenuação da perturbação antropogênica. Verificou-se relação direta entre o arranjo espacial e a síndrome de dispersão para Trichilia clausseni e Metrodorea nigra e, dependendo das escalas analisadas, para T. catigua e T. casaretti.
  • Medium and large-sized mammals in a private reserve of natural Heritage in the municipality of Jaú, São Paulo, Brazil
    Ricardo Reale, Renata Fonseca, Wilson Uieda
    Check List, 2014
    Medium and large-sized mammals control invertebrate and vertebrate populations and are important seed dispersers. These animals are losing their territory and living range due to deforestation and the fragmentation of natural areas, particularly in the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado. The Private Reserve of Natural Heritage (PRNH) Amadeu Botelho is isolated from other forest fragments and is thus a wildlife refuge in the region of Jaú, central-western region of state of São Paulo, southeastem Brazil. Animals as such as the puma (Puma concolor), ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) and jaguarundi (Puma yagouaroundi) have been sighted in the reserve by wildlife guards and residents. This reserve, which belongs to “Santo Antônio dos Ipês” farm, is surrounded by several plantations, and is very close to the center of the city of Jaú. In addition to surveying the mammal species in the reserve, this study diagnosed the influence of the farm’s activities and the proximity to the center of the municipality of Jaú on the fauna under study
  • Frugivory and the effects of ingestion by bats on the seed germination of three pioneering plants
    Maria C. de Carvalho-Ricardo, Wilson Uieda, Renata Cristina B. Fonseca, Marcelo N. Rossi
    Acta Oecologica, 2014
  • Medium and large sized mammalians and their relation to habitat patches at the Botucatu cuesta, state of São Paulo, Brazil
    Telma R. Alves, Renata C. B. Fonseca, Vera L. Engel
    Iheringia Serie Zoologia, 2012
  • Structural analysis and aspects of the successional mosaic of a semi-deciduous forest, in Botucatu (São Paulo State, Brazil)
    Scientia Forestalis Forest Sciences, 2000