Rita de Cássia Quitete Portela

The COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to weaken environmental protection in Brazil

Mariana M. Vale, Érika Berenguer, Márcio Argollo de Menezes et al. · Biological Conservation · 2021 · 221 citations · Full text

Virus Epidemiology, Global Health Crisis, Environmental Health +5

Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conservation impact

Molly K. Grace, H. Reşi̇t Akçakaya, Elizabeth L. Bennett et al. · Conservation Biology · 2021 · 101 citations · Full text

Demography of palm species in Brazil’s Atlantic forest: a comparison of harvested and unharvested species using matrix models

Rita de Cássia Quitete Portela, Emilio M. Bruna, Flavio Antônio Maës dos Santos · Biodiversity and Conservation · 2010 · 36 citations

Biodiversity, Engineering, Biogeography +8

Variation in aboveground biomass and necromass of two invasive species in the Atlantic rainforest, southeast Brazil

Rita de Cássia Quitete Portela, Dalva Maria Silva Matos, Ludmila Pugliese de Siqueira et al. · Acta Botanica Brasilica · 2009 · 33 citations · Full text

Southeast Brazil, Engineering, Botany +18

Forest fragmentation and defaunation drive an unusual ecological cascade: Predation release, monkey population outburst and plant demographic collapse

Rita de Cássia Quitete Portela, Rodolfo Dirzo · Biological Conservation · 2020 · 28 citations

Biodiversity, Engineering, Habitat Loss +8