Publications

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

41. Vora N.M., Narayan S., Aluso A., Donatti C.I., Omrani O.E., Hannah L., Mahmood J., Ndembi N., Vale M.M,  Willetts E. 2024. Nature-based solutions are essential for climate and health action. The Lancet, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)01599-X. 


40. Lucas P. Martins et al. Birds optimize fruit size consumed near their geographic range limits. Science 385,331-336 (2024) .DOI:10.1126/science.adj1856 


39. Donatti C.I., Nicholas K., Fedele G., Delforge D., Speybroeck N., Moraga P., Blatter J., Below R., Zvoleff A. 2024. Global hotspots of climate-related disasters. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104488. 


38. Martins, L.P., Stouffer, D.B., Blendinger, P.G. et al. Global and regional ecological boundaries explain abrupt spatial discontinuities in avian frugivory interactions. Nat Commun 13, 6943 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34355-w.

 

37. Donatti, C.I., Andrade, A., Cohen-Shacham, E., Fedele, G., Hou-Jones, X., Robyn, B. 2022. Ensuring that nature-based solutions for climate mitigation address multiple global challenges. One Earth 5(5): 493-504.

 

36. Vignola, R.; Esquivel, M.J.; Harvey, C.; Rapidel, B.; Bautista-Solis, P.; Alpizar, F.; Donatti, C.; Avelino, J. Ecosystem-Based Practices for Smallholders’ Adaptation to Climate Extremes: Evidence of Benefits and Knowledge Gaps in Latin America. Agronomy 2022, 12, 2535. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12102535

 

35. Pascual, U., McElwee, P.D., Diamond, S.E., Ngo, H.T., Bai, X., Cheung, W.W.L., Lim, M., Steiner, N., Agard, J., Donatti, C. I., Duarte, C.M, Leemans, R., Managi, S., Pires, A. P. F., Reyes-García, V. Trisos, C., Scholes, R.J., Pörtner, H.-O. 2022. Governing for transformative change across the biodiversity-climate-society nexus. BioScience. 72. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac031.

 

34. Genes L., Losapio G., Donatti C.I., Guimarães P.R. Jr. and Dirzo R. 2022. Frugivore Population Biomass, but Not Density, Affect Seed Dispersal Interactions in a Hyper-Diverse Frugivory Network. Front. Ecol. Evol. 10:794723. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.794723.

 

33.  Fedele G., Donatti, C.I., Bornacelly, I., Hole, D.G. 2021. Nature-dependent people: Mapping human direct use of nature for basic needs across the tropics. Global Environmental Change. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102368.

 

32. Portner H.O., Scholes R.J., Agard J., Archer E., Arneth A., Bai X., Barnes D., Burrows M., Chan L., Cheung W.L., Diamond S., Donatti C. et al. 2021. Scientific outcome of the IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop on biodiversity and climate change. IPBES Secretariat, Bonn, Germany. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4659158.

 

31.  Fedele G., Donatti, C.I., Harvey C.A., Hannah, L., Hole D.G. 2020.  Limited use of transformative adaptation in response to social-ecological shifts driven by climate change. Ecology & Society 25(1): 25-37. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11381-250125.

 

30. Donatti C.I., Harvey C.A., Hole D., Panfil S. 2019. Measuring the adaptation outcomes of Ecosystem-based adaptation. Climatic Change 158: 413-433.

 

29. Hannah L., Roehrdanz P.R., Bahadur K.C.K., Fraser E.D.G., Donatti C.I., Saenz L., Wright T.M., Hijmans R.J., Mulligan M., Berg A., van Soesbergen A.V. 2020. The environmental consequences of climate-driven agricultural frontiers. PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228305

 

28.  Fedele G., Donatti C.I., Harvey C.A., Hannah L., Hole D. 2019. Transformative adaptation to climate change for sustainable social-ecological systems. Environmental Science and Policy 101: 116-125.

 

27.  Donatti C.I., Martínez -Rodríguez M.R., Vignola R., Harvey C.A. 2018. Vulnerability of smallholder farmers to climate change in Central America and Mexico: current knowledge and research gaps. Climate and development. DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2018.1442796.

 

26. Donatti C. I., Harvey C. A., Martinez-Rodriguez M. R., Vignola R., Rodriguez C. M. 2017. What information do policy makers need to develop climate adaptation plans for smallholder farmers? The case of Central America and Mexico. Climatic Change 141 (1): 127-141.

 

25. Harvey C.A., Martínez -Rodríguez M.R., Cardenas J.M., Avelino J.  Rapidel B., Vignola R., Donatti C.I., Mendoza S.V. 2017. The use of Ecosystem-based Adaptation practices by smallholder farmers in Central America. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 249: 279-290.

 

24. Imbach P., Fung E., Hannah L., Navarro-Racines C.E., Roubik D.W, Ricketts T.H., Harvey C.A, Donatti C.I., Läderach P., Locatelli, B. 2017. Coffee, Bees and Climate: Coupling of pollination services and agriculture under climate change.  PNAS 114(39) 10438-10442.

 

23. Sebastián-González E., Pires M.M., Donatti C.I., Guimarães Jr. P.R., Dirzo R.  2017. Species traits and interaction rules shape a species-rich seed-dispersal interaction network. Ecology and Evolution 7: 4496-4506.

 

22. Imbach P., Beardsley M., Bouroncle C., Medellin C., Läderach P., Hidalgo H., Alfaro E., Van Etten J., Allan R., Hemming D., Stone R., Hannah L., Donatti C.I. 2017.  Climate change ecosystems and smallholder agriculture in Central America: an introduction to the special issue. Climatic Change 141(1): 1-12.

 

21. Hannah L., Donatti C.I., Harvey C.A., Alfaro E., Rodriguez D.A., Bouroncle B., Castellanos E., Diaz F., Fung E., Hidalgo H.G., Imbach P., Läderach P., Landrum J.P., Solano A.L. 2017. Regional modeling of climate change impacts on smallholder agriculture and ecosystems in Central America. Climatic Change 141 (1): 29–45.

 

20. Holland M.B., Shamer S.Z., Imbach P., Zamora J.C., Moreno C.M., Hidalgo E.J.L., Donatti C.I., Martínez-Rodríguez M.R., Harvey C.A. 2017. Mapping adaptive capacity and smallholder agriculture: applying expert knowledge at the landscape scale. Climatic Change 141 (1): 139-153.

 

19. Bourne A., Paquini L., Donatti C.I., Holden P., Scorgie S. 2016. Strengthening the role of local authorities to support community - based adaptation: The case of South Africa. Enhancing Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries.

 

18. Vignola R., Harvey C.A., Bautista-Solis P., Avelino J., Rapidel B., Donatti C.I., Martinez M.R. 2015. Ecosystem-based adaptation for smallholder farmers: definitions, opportunities and constraints. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 211: 126-132.

 

17. Segan D.B., Hole D.G., Donatti C.I., Zganjar C., Martin S., Butchart S.H.M., Watson J.E.M. 2015. Considering the impact of climate change on human communities significantly alters the outcome of species and site-based vulnerability assessments. Diversity and Distributions 21 (9): 1101-1111.


16. Galetti M., Camargo H., Siqueira T., Keuroghlian A., Donatti C.I., Jorge M.L.S.P., Pedrosa F., Kanda C.Z., Ribeiro M.C. 2015. Diet overlap and foraging activity between feral pigs and native peccaries in the Pantanal. PLOS One 10(11): e0141459.

 

15. Harvey C.A., Chacon M., Donatti C.I., Garen E., Hannah L., Andrade A., Bede L., Brown D., Calle A., Chara J., Celment J.C., Gray E., Hoang M.H., Minang P., Rodriguez A.M., Seeberg-Elverfeldt C., Semroc B., Shames S., Smuckler S., Somarriba E., Torquebiau E., van Etten J., Wollenberg. E. 2014. Climate-smart landscapes: Opportunities and challenges for integration adaptation and mitigation in tropical agricultural landscapes. Conservation Letters 7(2): 77-90.

 

14. Pires M.M., Galetti M., Donatti C.I., Pizo M.A., Dirzo R. Guimarães Jr, P.R. 2014. Reconstructing past ecological networks: the reconfiguration of seed-dispersal interactions after megafaunal extinction Oecologia 175 (4): 1247-1256.

 

13. Paglia, A.P., Rezende A.T., Koch I., Kortz A.R., Donatti. C.I. 2012. Species distribution models in biodiversity conservation strategies and climate change ecosystem-based adaptation. Brazilian Journal of Nature Conservation 10(2): 231-234.

 

12. Donatti C.I., Guimarães Jr. P.R., Galetti M., Pizo M. A., Marquitti F.M.D., Dirzo R. 2011. Analysis of a hyper-diverse seed dispersal network: modularity and underlying mechanisms. Ecology Letters 14(8): 773-781.

 

11. Bernardo C.S.S., Rubim P., Bueno R.S., Gobbo S.K., Steffler C. E., Donatti C.I., Denzin C., Marques R.M., Bovendorp R.S., Meirelles F., Begotti R.A., Galetti M. 2011. Density estimates of the endangered Black-fronted piping guan in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 123 (4), 690-698.

 

10.  Pringle E.G., Adams R. I., Broadbent E., Busby P.E., Donatti C.I., Kurten E. L., Renton K., Dirzo R. 2011. Distinct leaf-trait syndromes of evergreen and deciduous trees in a Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest. Biotropica 43(3): 299-308.

 

9. Wang E., Donatti CI., Ferreira V.L., Raizer J., Himmelstein J. 2011. Food habits and notes on the biology of Chelonoides carbonaria (Spix 1824) (Testudinidae, Chelonia) in the Southern Pantanal, Brazil. South American Journal of Herpetology 6(1): 11-19.

 

8. Galetti M., Donatti C.I., Steffler C., Genini J., Bovendorp R.S., Fleury M. 2010. The role of seed mass on the caching decision by agoutis. Brazilian Journal of Zoology 27(3): 472-476.

 

7. Donatti C.I., Guimarães Jr. P.R., Galetti M. 2009. Seed dispersal and predation in the endemic Atlantic Rainforest palm Astrocaryum aculeatissimum across a gradient of seed disperser abundance. Ecological Research 24(6): 1187-1195.

 

6. Galetti M., Giacomini H.C., Bueno R.S., Bernardo C.S.S., Marques R.M., Bovendorp R.S., Steffler C.E., Rubim P., Gobbo S.K., Donatti C.I., Begotti R.A., Meirelles F., Nobre R.A., Chiarello A.G, Peres C.A. 2009. Priority areas for the conservation of Atlantic Forest large mammals. Biological Conservation 142: 1229-1241.


5. Fadini R.F., Fleury M., Donatti C.I., Galetti M. 2009. Effects of frugivore impoverishment and seed predators on the recruitment of a keystone palm. Acta ecologica 35: 188-196.

 

4. Galetti M., Donatti C.I., Pizo M.A., Giacominni H. 2008. Big fish are the best: Seed dispersal of Bactris glaucescens by the pacu fish (Piaractus mesopotamicus) in the Pantanal, Brazil. Biotropica 40(3): 386-389.

 

3. Pizo M.A., Donatti C.I., Guedes N.M.A, Galetti M. 2008. Conservation puzzle: endangered hyacinth  macaw depends on its nest predator for reproduction. Biological Conservation 141:792-796.

 

2. Galetti M., Donatti C.I., Pires A.S., Guimarães Jr. P.R., Jordano P. 2006. Seed survival and dispersal of an endemic Atlantic Forest palm: the combined effects of defaunation and forest fragmentation. Botanical Journal of Linnean Society 151:141-149.

 

1.   Donatti C.I., Galetti M., Pizo M.A., Guimarães Jr. P.R., Jordano P. 2007. Living in a land of ghosts: Fruit traits and the importance of large mammals as seed dispersers in the Pantanal, Brazil. In: Dennis, A., Green, R., Schupp, E.W., and Wescott, D. (eds.). Frugivory and seed dispersal: theory and applications in a changing world. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau International, Wallingford, UK.


POLICY BRIEFS AND TRAININIG MATERIALS

1.      Griswold, D., Goodwin, E., Donatti, C.I.; Pottinger-Glass. 2022. Nature-based solutions and the global goal on adaptation. FEBA issue brief for UNFCCC COP27. Friends of Ecosystem-based adaptation.

2.      Donatti, C.I., Fedele, G., Zvoleff, G., Hannah, L., Munoz, C., Roopsind, A. 2021. Pandemics prevention and recovery through Ecosystem-based adaptation. Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA.

3.      Donatti, C.I., Martinez-Rodriguez, M.R., Fedele, G., Harvey, C.A., Scorgie, S., Andrade, A., Rose, C., Alam, Mahbub. 2021. Guidelines for designing, implementing and monitoring Nature-based solutions for adaptation. Conservation International.

4.      Fedele G., Donatti C.I., Corwin E., Pangilinan M.J., Roberts K., Lewins M., Andrade A., Olvera D., Frazee S., Grover M., Lalaina Rakotobe Z., Rambeloson A. (2019), Nature-based Transformative Adaptation: a practical handbook, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3386441.

5.      Donatti, C.I., Martinez-Rodriguez, M.R., Fedele, G., Harvey, C.A., Scorgie, S., Andrade, A., Rose, C., Alam, Mahbub. 2018. Guidelines for designing, implementing and monitoring ecosystem-based adaptation interventions. Conservation International.

6.  Viguera, B., Martínez-Rodríguez, M.R., Donatti, C.I., Harvey, C.A. y Alpízar, F. 2017.El clima, el cambio climático, la vulnerabilidad y acciones contra el cambio climático: Conceptos básicos. Materiales de fortalecimiento de capacidades técnicas del proyecto CASCADA (Conservación Internacional-CATIE). 44 páginas.

7.  Viguera, B., Martínez-Rodríguez, M.R., Donatti, C.I., Harvey, C.A. y Alpízar, F. 2017. Impactos del cambio climático en la agricultura de Centroamérica, estrategias de mitigación y adaptación. Materiales de fortalecimiento de capacidades técnicas del proyecto CASCADA (Conservación Internacional-CATIE).  46 páginas.

8.  Martínez-Rodríguez, M.R., Viguera, B., Donatti, C.I., Harvey, C.A. y Alpízar, F. 2017. La importancia de los servicios ecosistémicos para la agricultura. Materiales de fortalecimiento de capacidades técnicas del proyecto CASCADA (Conservación Internacional-CATIE). 40 páginas.

9.      Martínez-Rodríguez, M.R., Viguera, B., Donatti, C.I., Harvey, C.A. y Alpízar, F. 2017. Cómo enfrentar el cambio climático desde la agricultura: Prácticas de Adaptación basadas en Ecosistemas. Materiales de fortalecimiento de capacidades técnicas del proyecto CASCADA (Conservación Internacional-CATIE).  44 páginas.

10.   Donatti C.I., Andrade A., Burke L., Chhetri N., Cook J., Fedele G., Friedrich C., Goldstein A., Harvey C.A., Hole D.

, Kontorov A., Leiter T., Mack S., Menazza S., Ndiaye D., Panfil S., Ries F., Rizvi A.R., Schurman H. Indicators to measure the adaptation outcomes of Ecosystem-based adaptation.

11.   Donatti C.I., Alam M., Baião P. et al. 2016. Ecosystem-based Adaptation in marine, terrestrial and coastal regions as a means of improving livelihoods and conserving biodiversity in the face of climate change. Results and lessons learned. Technical report. Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, USA.

12.   Donatti C.I. Hole D., Harvey C.A., Dunlop M., Lavorel S., Locatelli B., Mumba, M., Vignola R., Watson J., Wise R. 2015. Ecosystem-based adaptation: essential for achieving the sustainable development goals.

13.   Bouroncle, C., Imbach, P. Rodríguez, B., Medellín, C., Fung, E., Martínez-Rodríguez, M.R., Donatti, C.I. 2015. La agricultura de Costa Rica y el cambio climático: ¿Dónde están las prioridades para la adaptación? Copenhague, Dinamarca: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).

14.   Bouroncle, C., Imbach, P. Rodríguez, B., Medellín, C., Fung, E., Martínez-Rodríguez, M.R., Donatti, C.I. 2015. La agricultura de Guatemala y el cambio climático: ¿Dónde están las prioridades para la adaptación? Copenhague, Dinamarca: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).

15.   Bouroncle, C., Imbach, P. Rodríguez, B., Medellín, C., Fung, E., Martínez-Rodríguez, M.R., Donatti, C.I. 2015. La agricultura de Honduras y el cambio climático: ¿Dónde están las prioridades para la adaptación? Copenhague, Dinamarca: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).