Measuring continuous compositional change using decline and decay in zeta diversity

MA McGeoch, G Latombe, NR Andrew, S Nakagawa… - Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Incidence, or compositional, matrices are generated for a broad range of research
applications in biology. Zeta diversity provides a common currency and conceptual …

Amazon tree dominance across forest strata

FC Draper, FRC Costa, G Arellano… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
The forests of Amazonia are among the most biodiverse plant communities on Earth. Given
the immediate threats posed by climate and land-use change, an improved understanding of …

Mapping Atlantic rainforest degradation and regeneration history with indicator species using convolutional network

FH Wagner, A Sanchez, MPM Aidar, ALC Rochelle… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The Atlantic rainforest of Brazil is one of the global terrestrial hotspots of biodiversity. Despite
having undergone large scale deforestation, forest cover has shown signs of increases in …

Geographic distribution, conservation, and genomic resources of cacao Theobroma cacao L

HE Nieves‐Orduña, KV Krutovsky, O Gailing - Crop Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The cacao tree, Theobroma cacao L., is cultivated in the tropics, mainly in agroforestry
systems, to produce seeds, the valuable raw material for the chocolate industry. Thus, the …

On the floristic identity of Amazonian vegetation types

AT Oliveira‐Filho, KG Dexter, RT Pennington… - Biotropica, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Amazon forest is far from uniform, containing different forest types and even savannas,
but quantitative analyses of this variation are lacking. Here, we applied ordination analyses …

Revisiting the hyperdominance of Neotropical tree species under a taxonomic, functional and evolutionary perspective

G Damasco, C Baraloto, A Vicentini, DC Daly… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Recent studies have leveraged large datasets from plot-inventory networks to report a
phenomenon of hyperdominance in Amazonian tree communities, concluding that few …

Sampling effort and information quality provided by rare and common species in estimating assemblage structure

LF Sgarbi, LM Bini, J Heino, J Jyrkänkallio-Mikkola… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Reliable biological assessments are essential to answer ecological and management
questions but require well-designed studies and representative sample sizes. However …

[HTML][HTML] How nematode morphometric attributes integrate with taxonomy-based measures along an estuarine gradient

K Sroczyńska, A Conde, P Chainho, H Adao - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Nematodes are highly susceptible to environmental change and possess a wide array of
morphological and functional characteristics for the assessment of the “Good Environmental …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of climate change on the distribution of Castanopsis (Fagaceae) species in south China and Indo-China region

ML Cheuk, GA Fischer - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 - Elsevier
Forests are already and will continue to experience a rapid and extreme change in climatic
conditions in the future. The distributions of forests are expected to shift northward and to …

Floristics of forests across low nutrient soils in Sulawesi, Indonesia

LA Trethowan, WL Eiserhardt, D Girmansyah… - Biotropica, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The island of Sulawesi formed from the joining of proto‐islands roughly three million years
ago. Regions of zoological endemism, corresponding to the proto‐islands, have been …