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Inara R. Leal is affiliated with the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with extensive work in the subfields of Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

Their main research topics include:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
  • Animal and Plant Science Education
  • Insect and Pesticide Research

Among Inara R. Leal's recent published works are:

  • "Designing optimal human-modified landscapes for forest biodiversity conservation" (2020) in Ecology Letters
  • "Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies" (2020) in Ecology Letters
  • "The ecosystem services provided by social insects: traits, management tools and knowledge gaps" (2020) in Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Winner-Loser Species Replacements in Human-Modified Landscapes" (2021) in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Drastic impoverishment of the soil seed bank in a tropical dry forest exposed to slash-and-burn agriculture" (2022) in Forest Ecology and Management

Their frequent coauthors include Marcelo Tabarelli, Fernanda M. P. Oliveira, Rainer Wirth, Xavier Arnán, and Ariadna Valentina Lopes. Collaboration with these researchers highlights a sustained partnership in topics related to environmental science and ecology.

Inara R. Leal has published widely in several academic journals, with a notable concentration of publications in:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Biotropica
  • Journal of Insect Conservation
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Arid Environments

Best Publications

  • Multiple successional pathways in human-modified tropical landscapes: New insights from forest succession, forest fragmentation and landscape ecology research

    Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Felipe P. L. Melo;Miguel Martínez-Ramos;Frans Bongers

  • Changing the Course of Biodiversity Conservation in the Caatinga of Northeastern Brazil

    Inara R. Leal;José Maria Cardoso Da Silva;Marcelo Tabarelli;Thomas E. Lacher

  • Designing optimal human-modified landscapes for forest biodiversity conservation.

    Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Lenore Fahrig;Marcelo Tabarelli;James I. Watling

  • Ecologia e conservação da caatinga

    Felipe Fernando da Silva Siqueira;Fernanda Maria Pereira de Oliveira;José Domingos Ribeiro Neto;Maria Fabíola Barros

  • Mudando o curso da conservação da biodiversidade na Caatinga do Nordeste do Brasil

    Inara R. Leal;Maria C. Da Silva;Marcelo Tabarelli;Thomas E. Lacher

  • Caatinga: The Scientific Negligence Experienced by a Dry Tropical Forest

    Jean Carlos Santos;Inara Roberta Leal;Jarcilene Silva Almeida-Cortez;G. Wilson Fernandes

  • Chronic anthropogenic disturbance drives the biological impoverishment of the Brazilian Caatinga vegetation

    Elâine M. S. Ribeiro;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Bráulio A. Santos;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Caatinga: The largest tropical dry forest region in South America

    Jose Maria Cardoso da Silva;Inara Roberta Leal;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • The Caatinga: Understanding the Challenges

    José Maria Cardoso da Silva;Luis Cláudio Fernandes Barbosa;Inara R. Leal;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies.

    James I. Watling;Victor Arroyo‐Rodríguez;Marion Pfeifer;Lander Baeten

  • Precipitation mediates the effect of human disturbance on the Brazilian Caatinga vegetation

    Kátia F. Rito;Kátia F. Rito;Víctor Arroyo‐Rodríguez;Rubens T. de Queiroz;Inara R. Leal

  • Interactions between Fungus‐Growing Ants (Attini), Fruits and Seeds in Cerrado Vegetation in Southeast Brazil1

    Inara R. Leal;Paulo S. Oliveira

  • Plant Herbivore Interactions at the Forest Edge

    Rainer Wirth;Sebastian T. Meyer;Inara R. Leal;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Effects of habitat fragmentation on ant richness and functional composition in Brazilian Atlantic forest

    Inara R. Leal;Bruno K. C. Filgueiras;Juliana P. Gomes;Luciana Iannuzzi

  • Seed Dispersal by Ants in the Semi-arid Caatinga of North-east Brazil

    Inara R. Leal;Rainer Wirth;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Indirect effects of habitat loss via habitat fragmentation: A cross-taxa analysis of forest-dependent species

    Thomas Püttker;Renato Crouzeilles;Mauricio Almeida-Gomes;Marina Schmoeller

  • Cutting More from Cut Forests: Edge Effects on Foraging and Herbivory of Leaf-Cutting Ants in Brazil

    Pille Urbas;Manoel V. Araújo;Inara R. Leal;Rainer Wirth

  • The Multiple Impacts of Leaf‐Cutting Ants and Their Novel Ecological Role in Human‐Modified Neotropical Forests

    Inara R. Leal;Rainer Wirth;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Habitat fragmentation alters the structure of dung beetle communities in the Atlantic Forest

    Bruno K.C. Filgueiras;Luciana Iannuzzi;Inara R. Leal

  • Increasing densities of leaf-cutting ants (Atta spp.) with proximity to the edge in a Brazilian Atlantic forest

    Rainer Wirth;Sebastian T. Meyer;Walkiria R. Almeida;Manoel Vieira Araújo

  • Foraging ecology of attine ants in a Neotropical savanna: seasonal use of fungal substrate in the cerrado vegetation of Brazil

    I.R. Leal;P.S. Oliveira

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcelo Tabarelli
Marcelo Tabarelli Federal University of Pernambuco
Rainer Wirth
Rainer Wirth Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Alan N. Andersen
Alan N. Andersen Charles Darwin University
Paulo S. Oliveira
Paulo S. Oliveira State University of Campinas
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez National Autonomous University of Mexico
Sebastian T. Meyer
Sebastian T. Meyer Technical University of Munich
Bráulio A. Santos
Bráulio A. Santos Federal University of Paraíba
André V. L. Freitas
André V. L. Freitas State University of Campinas
Felipe P. L. Melo
Felipe P. L. Melo Federal University of Pernambuco
Carlos A. Peres
Carlos A. Peres University of East Anglia

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