Jean Paul Metzger is a full Professor of Ecology at the University of São Paulo. He obtained his MSc and Ph.D. in Landscape Ecology at the University of Toulouse, France. Since 1995, he develops research in landscape ecology and biodiversity conservation in highly fragmented landscapes, essentially in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest region. His main research focuses are related to landscape connectivity, ecological thresholds and time-lag responses to landscape changes, and conservation planning. More recently, he is exploring the relationships between landscape structure, ecosystem services, and human well-being, and investigating environmental policies' efficiency to manage multifunctional landscapes. He also uses extensive modeling and scenario approaches to link landscape-level processes with restoration processes. He has published over 200 papers in various journals, including Science, Nature, Landscape Ecology, Ecological Applications, Journal of Applied Ecology, Ecography, Oikos, Biological Conservation, among others. Those manuscripts have accumulated ca. 17,000 citations, resulting in an H-index of 60 (February 2025, Scopus database). He has supervised 31 M.Sc. dissertations, 20 doctoral theses, and 18 post-doctoral projects. He was the founder of the Brazilian Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE-BR) and vice-president of IALE (2013-2015). He was Associate Editor of Biological Conservation (2005-2010), and currently is a member of the editorial board of Landscape Ecology and Current Landscape Ecology Report, and Editor-in-Chief of Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. He was Lead Author in three assessments of The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES): Models and Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Land Degradation and Restoration and Americas. He was also co-chair of the Brazilian Assessment (https://www.bpbes.net.br). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Climate projections indicate that the state of São Paulo will cope with the effects of climate change in several ways. On the one hand, projections point to warming of the atmosphere and all models indicate a reduction in the duration of cold waves, as well as an increase in the duration of heat waves. On the other hand, in relation to annual precipitation and related extreme events, whil…
This proposal seeks to create a nucleus of analysis and synthesis of nature-based solutions (the BIOTA SYNTHESIS) aimed at solving socio-environmental problems presented by the government of the state of São Paulo, with a focus on demands that have been put forward by the Secretariats of Infrastructure and Environment, Agriculture and Supply, and Health. The research approach is inspired …
Landscape change, due to activities such as urban development and expanding agriculture, have far reaching consequences for the sustainable provision of different ecosystem services, such as carbon storage/sequestration, water regulation, and pests/diseases control. Vet, our understanding of the socio-ecological processes that link the structure of landscapes with the provision of ecosyst…
This project is part of the "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Scenarios Network" (ScenNet), which is a large networking project involving nine different countries. The goal of the ScenNet project is to strengthen national and international ties between (AU)
Faced with the challenge of planning multifunctional landscapes to ensure the retention of both original biological diversity and ecosystem functions, as well as agricultural production, this project aims to investigate how parameters of landscape structure directly or indirectly regulates key ecosystem services through influencing a series of distinct ecological processes. As ecosystem s…
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Faced with a growing global population, agriculture is ahead a paradox. On one hand, it must meet the ever-growing demand for food production, driving agricultural intensification. On the other, it must reduce the environmental consequences of such intensification, which jeopardizes ecosystem services and favours disservices to agriculture. In this context, strategies to reconcile agricul…
Translation:Climate projections indicate that the state of São Paulo will have to deal with the effects of climate change in various ways. On one hand, projections point to atmospheric warming, with all models predicting a reduction in the duration of cold waves, as well as an increase in the duration of heat waves. On the other hand, regarding annual precipitation and related extreme eve…
Zoonotic diseases, those transmitted from animals to humans, represent a significant threat to global public health, causing millions of deaths each year and resulting in significant economic losses. Studies have shown that their occurrence and increased incidence are related to climatic factors and anthropic action, especially the conversion of native environments to other uses. For exam…
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Studies have investigated the association between green areas and quality of health and well-being in urban areas, as well as the ability of these areas to retain species diversity in cities. These investigations have, on the one hand, found a negative association between the presence of green areas in urban areas and mortality, cardiovascular diseases and violence; and, on the other hand…
The expansion and intensification promoted by the green revolution doubled the Agriculture production; however, the Agricultural activity is responsible for up to 70% of the terrestrial biodiversity loss. In this regard, the process of ecological intensification, based on the management of organisms providers of Ecosystem Services (ES) important to crops (e.g. pollination), is a valuable …
Environmental compensation is the last step forseen in the mitigation hierarchy, when anthropic impacts could not be avoided or minimized. Offsets, more strict compensations that seek no net loss in biodiversity, have been widely implemented in several countries lately. However, they rarely achieve all their goals, which has generated some mistrust in some sectors of society. Part of the …
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The association between human health and nature is well established in the scientific literature. This positive association is usually attributed to the provision of ecosystem services (ES), particularly cultural ES as recreational and aesthetic services. However, in urban areas, the provision of those services can be limited since the contact with nature can be scarce, leading to the ext…
Socioeconomic changes, driven by trade and human mobility, have exerted a significant influence on the global distribution of vector-borne diseases. Among these vectors, the Aedes mosquito has expanded its distribution due to various anthropogenic factors. In urban areas, Aedes mosquitoes have found favorable conditions for their proliferation, posing a significant risk of arbovirus infec…
Nature-based solutions (NBSs) have gained recognition as interventions that address societal challenges while providing multiple benefits and co-benefits in a sustainable and adaptive manner. As cities face increasing climate change impacts and environmental challenges, urban NBSs have emerged as key allies in climate adaptation efforts. However, a comprehensive understanding of the relat…
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