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Gustavo Brant Paterno

@paternogbc.bsky.social

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Researcher at University of Göttingen | Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography #EFForTS-BEE Experiment #ecology #restoration #evolution #reproducibility nature, music, science 💜🇧🇷🇧🇪🌎 Father of Rudá and Maria Flor

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Gustavo Brant Paterno @paternogbc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Thank you :)

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Gustavo Brant Paterno @paternogbc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Thanks. So cool 💥

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Patrick Weigelt @patrickweigelt.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Phylogenetic turnover of seed plants 🌱 at a global 🌐 and across phylogenetic scales: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales - Nature Ecology & Evolution

This modelling study integrates comprehensive regional plant inventories, environmental conditions and palaeogeographical reconstructions to assess the relative roles of environmental filtering and di...

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Gustavo Brant Paterno @paternogbc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Large areas under oil palm cultivation are approaching replanting age, meaning they will cut the old palms and start a new cycle. A second wave of biodiversity loss is therefore expected, highlighting the urgent need for effective restoration efforts.

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Gustavo Brant Paterno @paternogbc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

These effects remained consistent after accounting for local properties (e.g., soil fertility and vegetation structure) and the landscape context (scattered trees and distance to forest patches).

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Gustavo Brant Paterno @paternogbc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Planting large tree islands with greater initial planting diversity can enhance the recovery of taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity in oil palm landscapes. They accelerate the natural regeneration of native species, increasing diversity at local and landscape scales

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Gustavo Brant Paterno @paternogbc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

As many native species only occurred on large tree islands (e.g., > 400m2), they are crucial for conserving locally rare, endemic, and forest-associated species that struggle to find suitable habitats within conventional oil palm plantations.

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Gustavo Brant Paterno @paternogbc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Only six years after planting, the tree islands had a high diversity of recruiting trees, represented by 58 woody species from 28 plant families and different ecological strategies, including endemic and forest-associated species.

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Gustavo Brant Paterno @paternogbc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

We used the large-scale restoration experiment #EFForTSBEE to test how the size of tree islands and the diversity of trees planted affect the recovery of functional and phylogenetic diversity through natural regeneration of native wood species. #Restoration #Ecology

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Gustavo Brant Paterno @paternogbc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Tree islands are strategically planted patches of native vegetation in agricultural landscapes that promote forest regeneration.

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Gustavo Brant Paterno @paternogbc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Due to intensive management, such as the use of herbicides and fertilizers, natural regeneration in industrial-scale oil palm plantations is very limited.

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Gustavo Brant Paterno @paternogbc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Motivation: Large-scale conversion of tropical forests into #monocultures is a major threat to the conservation of tropical #biodiversity. While restoring native biodiversity in these ecosystems is a priority, effective #restoration strategies have yet to be identified

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