“…In contrast to the potential of mandatory forest restoration to provide both watershed services and biodiversity conservation, the Native Vegetation Protection Law of 2012, which replaced the 1965 Forest Code, strongly reduced the minimum width of riparian corridors that must be restored along streams and around springs in Brazil (Soares-Filho et al., 2014). The restoration of thin corridors, which are more susceptible to edge effects (Martello, Andrioli, de Souza, Dodonov, & Ribeiro, 2016; Mendes, Ribeiro, & Galetti, 2015), may provide less functional connectivity of the landscape and thus suboptimal levels of biodiversity conservation services (Brancalion, Garcia, et al., 2016a; Rotta, Viani, & Rosario, 2016). In conclusion, there is great potential for incorporating biodiversity conservation objectives into projects primarily designed and funded for improving the provision of water-related ES, a potential that can be optimized by adopting a landscape ecology perspective in the planning and implementation of ecological restoration efforts.…”