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Moment of truth for the Cerrado hotspot

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Despite projections of a severe extinction event, a window of opportunity is now open for a mix of policies to avoid biodiversity collapse in the Cerrado hotspot.

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Figure 1: Land use, deforestation and extinctions in the Cerrado.
Figure 2: The main public and private policies needed to retain and restore key Cerrado habitats while enabling agricultural expansion.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the help of A. Cosenza, A. Oliveira, F. Barros, I. Lorenzini, J. Silveira dos Santos and M. Pereira with the preparation of figures.

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  1. Department of Geography and the Environment, Rio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre (CSRio), Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 22430-060, Brazil

    Bernardo B. N. Strassburg, Alvaro Iribarrem, Renato Crouzeilles & Agnieszka E. Latawiec

  2. International Institute of Sustainability, Rio de Janeiro, 22460-320, Brazil

    Bernardo B. N. Strassburg, Rafael Feltran-Barbieri, Alvaro Iribarrem, Renato Crouzeilles & Agnieszka E. Latawiec

  3. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, 1196, Switzerland

    Thomas Brooks

  4. World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 20002, USA

    Rafael Feltran-Barbieri

  5. Ecosystem Services and Management programme, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, A-2361, Austria

    Alvaro Iribarrem

  6. Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 74001-970, Brazil

    Rafael Loyola

  7. Centro Nacional de Conservação da Flora, Rio de Janeiro, 22470-180, Brazil

    Rafael Loyola

  8. Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Informatics, Faculty of Production and Power Engineering, University of Agriculture in Cracow, Cracow, 31-120, Poland

    Agnieszka E. Latawiec

  9. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK

    Francisco J. B. Oliveira Filho

  10. Brazilian Ministry of Environment, Brasília, 70068-900, Brazil

    Carlos A. de M. Scaramuzza

  11. Fundação Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Rio de Janeiro, 22610-180, Brazil

    Fabio R. Scarano

  12. Department of Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 21941-970, Brazil

    Fabio R. Scarano

  13. Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 31270-901, Brazil

    Britaldo Soares-Filho

  14. Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK

    Andrew Balmford

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Strassburg, B., Brooks, T., Feltran-Barbieri, R. et al. Moment of truth for the Cerrado hotspot. Nat Ecol Evol 1, 0099 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0099

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