Maíra Benchimol

Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz — Brazil

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(41), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(39), Plant and animal studies(24), Species Distribution and Climate Change(21), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management(19)

Publications101 total

High-yield potential of carbon and biodiversity-rich cocoa agroforests in Bahia, Brazil
Agroforestry Systems·2025
Half-empty forests: defaunation of medium and large-sized mammals in a global biodiversity hotspot
Mammal Research·2025
Mapping Resilient Landscapes to Climate Change in a Megadiverse Country
Global Change Biology·2025Open Access
Effect of Agricultural Matrices on the Biodiversity Metrics of Bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila): A Review
Sociobiology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Deforested tropical landscapes: Unveiling the mechanisms driving tree saplings growth and survival in forest fragments
Global Ecology and Conservation·2025Open Access
Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests
Nature·2025· 17 citedOpen Access
Linking Landscape Features, Anthropogenic Stressors, and Mammal Abundance to Unveil Seed Removal Patterns in Tropical Deforested Landscapes
Biotropica·2025
Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of aerial insectivorous bats decay on forest islands created by a mega Amazonian dam
Global Ecology and Conservation·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
<scp>LandFrag</scp>: A Dataset to Investigate the Effects of Forest Loss and Fragmentation on Biodiversity
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Direct and Indirect Pathways Mediating the Impacts of Non-Native Rats on Cocoa Yield in an African Island
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Species Richness and Abundance of Social Wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) Associated with Shaded Cocoa Agroforests (Theobroma cacao L.) in Southern Bahia State, Brazil
Sociobiology·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Agricultural Expansion and Landscape Heterogeneity Explain Vegetation Degradation in Brazilian Atlantic Forest Landscapes
Land Degradation and Development·2024· 3 cited
Winner–loser plant trait replacements in human-modified tropical forests
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2024· 13 citedOpen Access
Landscape forest cover and regional context shape the conservation value of shaded cocoa agroforests for bees and social wasps
Landscape Ecology·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
A New Species of Nealiolus Mason, 1974 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Traditional Cocoa Agroforestry and Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest
Neotropical Entomology·2024
Linking changes in landscape structure to insect herbivory in forest edges and interiors of Atlantic Forest remnants
Ecological Applications·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Management practices can improve yields of carbon-rich cocoa agroforests in Brazil
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Land‐use homogenization reduces the occurrence and diversity of frugivorous birds in a tropical biodiversity hotspot
Ecological Applications·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Seed-Bird co-occurrence networks in cocoa agroforests: Morphological matching analysis reveals shading effects on network organization
Journal for Nature Conservation·2024
Disentangling the effects of habitat fragmentation and top-down trophic cascades on small mammal assemblages on Amazonian forest islands
Biological Conservation·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Carlos A. Peres(25), Deborah Faria(11), Eliana Cazetta(10), José Carlos Morante‐Filho(9), Eduardo Mariano‐Neto(7), Larissa Rocha‐Santos(7), Ana Filipa Palmeirim(5), Elaine Rios(5), Víctor Arroyo‐Rodríguez(4), Marcelo Tabarelli(4), Felipe P. L. Melo(4), Bráulio Almeida Santos(4), Michaele S. Pessoa(4), Daniela Custódio Talora(4), Danielle Storck‐Tonon(4), Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira(3), Marcelo Schramm Mielke(3), Marcus Vinícius Vieira(3), Jos Barlow(3), Érika Berenguer(3)