[HTML][HTML] Circuitscape in julia: empowering dynamic approaches to connectivity assessment

KR Hall, R Anantharaman, VA Landau, M Clark… - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
The conservation field is experiencing a rapid increase in the amount, variety, and quality of
spatial data that can help us understand species movement and landscape connectivity …

Long-term monitoring reveals widespread and severe declines of understory birds in a protected Neotropical forest

HS Pollock, JD Toms, CE Tarwater… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Long-term studies on the population dynamics of tropical resident birds are few, and it
remains poorly understood how their populations have fared in recent decades. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term Christmas Bird Counts describe neotropical urban bird diversity

MA Echeverry-Galvis, P Lozano Ramírez… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
A significant gap in understanding the response of biodiversity to urban areas is the lack of
long-term studies. Most of the information on urban birds comes from studies carried out in …

[HTML][HTML] Turnover-driven loss of forest-dependent species changes avian species richness, functional diversity, and community composition in Andean forest …

HH Jones, E Barreto, O Murillo, SK Robinson - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Andean forests, a hotspot of biodiversity, have suffered extensive fragmentation, yet we have
little understanding of how this process has affected biodiversity. We surveyed bird …

Identifying climate change refugia for South American biodiversity

LP Sales, MM Pires - Conservation Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Refugia‐based conservation offers long‐term effectiveness and minimize uncertainty on
strategies for climate change adaptation. We used distribution modelling to identify climate …

Sensitivity of tropical montane birds to anthropogenic disturbance and management strategies for their conservation in agricultural landscapes

IJ Ausprey, FL Newell, SK Robinson - Conservation Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical montane bird communities are hypothesized to be highly sensitive to anthropogenic
disturbance because species are adapted to a narrow range of environmental conditions …

[HTML][HTML] Dietary and habitat specialization, eye size, clutch size, and aerial lifestyle predict avian fragmentation sensitivity in an Andean biodiversity hotpot

HH Jones, MJ Bedoya-Durán, GJ Colorado Z… - Biodiversity and …, 2023 - Springer
The fragmentation of tropical forests remains a major driver of avian biodiversity loss,
particularly for insectivores, yet the mechanisms underlying area sensitivity remain poorly …

Nectar gardens on school grounds reconnect plants, birds and people

BE Mnisi, S Geerts, C Smith, A Pauw - Biological Conservation, 2021 - Elsevier
Pollinators are among the first to be lost when natural habitat is reduced to small patches
and this can have cascading effects on multiple plant species. Simultaneously, the loss of …

Incorporating intraspecific variation into species responses reveals both their resilience and vulnerability to future climate change

RD Palacio, JS Clark - Ecography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Incorporating intraspecific variation into species responses can improve our understanding
of the effects of climate change. However, most studies overlook such variation or model …

Change in avian functional fingerprints of a Neotropical montane forest over 100 years as an indicator of ecosystem integrity

C Gómez, EA Tenorio, CD Cadena - Conservation Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ecologically relevant traits of organisms in an assemblage determine an ecosystem's
functional fingerprint (ie, the shape, size, and position of multidimensional trait space) …