Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research

A Antonelli, M Ariza, J Albert, T Andermann, J Azevedo… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
The unparalleled biodiversity found in the American tropics (the Neotropics) has attracted
the attention of naturalists for centuries. Despite major advances in recent years in our …

Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna

CC Nogueira, AJS Argôlo, V Arzamendia… - South American Journal …, 2019 - BioOne
Accurate and detailed species distribution maps are fundamental for documenting and
interpreting biological diversity. For snakes, an ecologically diverse group of reptiles …

Area–heterogeneity tradeoff and the diversity of ecological communities

O Allouche, M Kalyuzhny… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
For more than 50 y ecologists have believed that spatial heterogeneity in habitat conditions
promotes species richness by increasing opportunities for niche partitioning. However, a …

Climatic stability in the Brazilian Cerrado: implications for biogeographical connections of South American savannas, species richness and conservation in a …

FP Werneck, C Nogueira, GR Colli… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To investigate the historical distribution of the Cerrado across Quaternary climatic
fluctuations and to generate historical stability maps to test:(1) whether the 'historical …

Sampling bias and the use of ecological niche modeling in conservation planning: a field evaluation in a biodiversity hotspot

GC Costa, C Nogueira, RB Machado… - Biodiversity and …, 2010 - Springer
Ecological niche modeling (ENM) has become an important tool in conservation biology.
Despite its recent success, several basic issues related to algorithm performance are still …

The importance of biotic interactions in species distribution models: a test of the Eltonian noise hypothesis using parrots

CB De Araújo, LO Marcondes‐Machado… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT Aim To test the Eltonian noise hypothesis (ENH), that biotic interactions do not
affect species distributions at large geographical scales. Location The Brazilian cerrado, a …

Vicariance and endemism in a Neotropical savanna hotspot: distribution patterns of Cerrado squamate reptiles

C Nogueira, S Ribeiro, GC Costa… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To test predictions of the vicariance model, to define basic biogeographical units for
Cerrado squamates, and to discuss previous biogeographical hypotheses. Location …

No link between population isolation and speciation rate in squamate reptiles

S Singhal, GR Colli, MR Grundler… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Rates of species formation vary widely across the tree of life and contribute to massive
disparities in species richness among clades. This variation can emerge from differences in …

Botanical richness and endemicity patterns of Borneo derived from species distribution models

N Raes, MC Roos, JWF Slik, EE Van Loon… - Ecography, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This study provides a Borneo‐wide, quantitative assessment of botanical richness and
endemicity at a high spatial resolution, and based on actual collection data. To overcome …

Hot, dry and different: Australian lizard richness is unlike that of mammals, amphibians and birds

GD Powney, R Grenyer, CDL Orme… - Global Ecology and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Aims (1) To map the species richness of Australian lizards and describe patterns of range
size and species turnover that underlie them.(2) To assess the congruence in the species …