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Milton Cezar Ribeiro

Milton Cezar Ribeiro

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
53
Citations
15566
World Ranking
3227
National Ranking
50

Overview

Milton Cezar Ribeiro is affiliated with Sao Paulo State University in Brazil, focusing their research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work involves extensive study within the subfields of Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecological Modeling.

The main topics explored by Ribeiro include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

They have contributed to a number of recent papers, including:

  • The Atlantic Forest of South America: Spatiotemporal dynamics of the vegetation and implications for conservation (2024) published in Biological Conservation
  • Land-use changes lead to functional loss of terrestrial mammals in a Neotropical rainforest (2021) published in Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
  • Noise level and water distance drive resident and migratory bird species richness within a Neotropical megacity (2020) published in Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Urbanization homogenizes the interactions of plant-frugivore bird networks (2020) published in Urban Ecosystems
  • Dispersal movement through fragmented landscapes: the role of stepping stones and perceptual range (2021) published in Landscape Ecology

Frequent co-authors in Ribeiro's research include Júlia Emi de Faria Oshima, Felipe Martello, Bernardo Brandão Niebuhr, Juliana Silveira dos Santos, and Maurício Humberto Vancine, with extensive collaborative publications with each.

They regularly publish in several scientific venues, with the most frequent including:

  • Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Biotropica
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Biological Conservation

Best Publications

  • The Brazilian Atlantic Forest:: how much is left and how is the remaining forest distributed? Implications for conservation

    Milton Cezar Ribeiro;Jean Paul Walter Metzger;Alexandre Camargo Martensen;Flávio Jorge Ponzoni

  • Functional extinction of birds drives rapid evolutionary changes in seed size

    Mauro Galetti;Roger Guevara;Marina C. Côrtes;Rodrigo Fadini

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

    Marcelo Tabarelli;Antonio Venceslau Aguiar;Milton Cezar Ribeiro;Jean Paul Walter Metzger

  • Time-lag in biological responses to landscape changes in a highly dynamic Atlantic forest region

    Jean-Paul Metzger;Alexandre Camargo Martensen;Marianna Botelho de Oliveira Dixo;Luis Carlos Bernacci

  • The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: A Shrinking Biodiversity Hotspot

    Milton Cezar Ribeiro;Milton Cezar Ribeiro;Alexandre Camargo Martensen;Jean Paul Metzger;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • A Framework to Optimize Biodiversity Restoration Efforts Based on Habitat Amount and Landscape Connectivity

    Leandro R. Tambosi;Alexandre C. Martensen;Alexandre C. Martensen;Milton C. Ribeiro;Jean P. Metzger

  • Associations of Forest Cover, Fragment Area, and Connectivity with Neotropical Understory Bird Species Richness and Abundance

    Alexandre Camargo Martensen;Milton Cezar Ribeiro;Milton Cezar Ribeiro;Cristina Banks-Leite;Cristina Banks-Leite;Paulo Inácio Prado

  • The effects of landscape patterns on ecosystem services: meta-analyses of landscape services

    Gabriela Teixeira Duarte;Gabriela Teixeira Duarte;Paloma Marques Santos;Paloma Marques Santos;Tatiana Garabini Cornelissen;Milton Cezar Ribeiro

  • Mammal defaunation as surrogate of trophic cascades in a biodiversity hotspot

    Maria Luiza S. P Jorge;Mauro Galetti;Milton C Ribeiro;Katia Maria Paschoaletto Micchi de Barros Ferraz

  • Long-term carbon loss in fragmented Neotropical forests

    Sandro Pütz;Jürgen Groeneveld;Jürgen Groeneveld;Klaus Henle;Christoph Knogge

  • Functional Redundancy and Complementarities of Seed Dispersal by the Last Neotropical Megafrugivores

    Rafael S. Bueno;Roger Guevara;Milton C. Ribeiro;Laurence Culot

  • Influence of multi-scale landscape structure on the occurrence of carnivorous mammals in a human-modified savanna, Brazil

    Maria Carolina Lyra-Jorge;Milton Cezar Ribeiro;Giordano Ciocheti;Leandro Reverberi Tambosi

  • High mammal species turnover in forest patches immersed in biofuel plantations

    Gabrielle Beca;Maurício H. Vancine;Carolina S. Carvalho;Felipe Pedrosa

  • Street trees reduce the negative effects of urbanization on birds.

    João Carlos de Castro Pena;Felipe Martello;Milton Cezar Ribeiro;Richard A Armitage

  • Space Use and Movement of a Neotropical Top Predator: The Endangered Jaguar

    Ronaldo G Morato;Jared A Stabach;Chris H Fleming;Justin M Calabrese

  • Ecosystem Services Modeling as a Tool for Defining Priority Areas for Conservation

    Gabriela Teixeira Duarte;Milton Cezar Ribeiro;Adriano Pereira Paglia

  • The Atlantic Forest of South America: Spatiotemporal dynamics of the vegetation and implications for conservation

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  • Threshold effect of habitat loss on bat richness in cerrado-forest landscapes

    Renata L. Muylaert;Richard D. Stevens;Milton C. Ribeiro

  • Connectivity maintain mammal assemblages functional diversity within agricultural and fragmented landscapes

    Marcelo Magioli;Katia Maria Paschoaletto Micchi de Barros Ferraz;Eleonore Zulnara Freire Setz;Alexandre Reis Percequillo

  • Human-modified landscapes alter mammal resource and habitat use and trophic structure

    Marcelo Magioli;Marcelo Zacharias Moreira;Renata Cristina Batista Fonseca;Milton Cezar Ribeiro

  • Homogenization and impoverishment of taxonomic and functional diversity of ants in Eucalyptus plantations

    Felipe Martello;Felipe Martello;Francesco de Bello;Maria Santina de Castro Morini;Rogério R. Silva

  • 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;João Carlos Castro Pena

Frequent Co-Authors

Mauro Galetti
Mauro Galetti Sao Paulo State University
Adriano Garcia Chiarello
Adriano Garcia Chiarello Universidade de São Paulo
Jean Paul Metzger
Jean Paul Metzger Universidade de São Paulo
Otso Ovaskainen
Otso Ovaskainen University of Jyväskylä
Carlos A. Peres
Carlos A. Peres University of East Anglia
Mario S. Di Bitetti
Mario S. Di Bitetti National University of Misiones
Nilton C. Cáceres
Nilton C. Cáceres Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Marco Aurélio Pizo
Marco Aurélio Pizo Sao Paulo State University
Nerea Abrego
Nerea Abrego University of Jyväskylä

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