Abiotic determinants of global biogeographical patterns are well known for a range of taxa,
particularly plants and vertebrates. However, they are largely undescribed for most …

Soil granulometric composition can impose constraints on ant species living in ground
habitats, being an important factor in defining the habitat templet, which describes how …

The simplification of native habitats leads to biodiversity decline in tropical terrestrial
ecosystems. We evaluated how conversion of three types of native Cerrado vegetation …

Rare plant and vertebrate species have been documented to contribute disproportionately to
the total morphological structure of species assemblages. These species often possess …

Given the dramatic loss of tropical forests and accelerating climate change, secondary forest
regeneration is increasingly recognised as being an important method for reversing losses …

Understanding biological community distribution patterns and their drivers across different
scales is one of the major goals of community ecology in a rapidly changing world …

Habitat loss is an important factor in global biodiversity loss, but categorizing human-
modified landscapes as fragments of natural or anthropogenic habitats may underestimate …

Cali is the third most prominent, and one of the most crowed, Colombian cities. It still
harbours some tropical dry forest patches that can mitigate the impacts of the urban …

Landscape context and contrast are major features of transformed landscapes. These
concepts are largely described in terms of vegetation and land use, and are rarely used on …

The rarity of organisms is related either to a natural origin or human-induced impacts, and
rare species are more susceptible to extinction. The Atlantic Forest is an endangered biome …