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Marcelo Reginato, Carlos A Ordónez-Parra, João Vitor S Messeder, Vinicius L G Brito, Agnes Dellinger, Ricardo Kriebel, Camilla Marra, Lilian Melo, Tatiana Cornelissen, Lisieux Fuzessy, Patricia Sperotto, Manuela Calderón-Hernández, Tadeu J Guerra, Constantin Kopper, Carolina Mancipe-Murillo, Marco A Pizo, Juan Mauricio Posada-Herrera, Érica Hasui, Wesley R Silva, Fernando A O Silveira
The recent availability of open-access repositories of functional traits has revolutionized trait-based approaches in ecology and evolution. Nevertheless, the underrepresentation of tropical regions and lineages remains a pervasive bias in plant functional trait databases, which constrains large-scale assessments of plant ecology, evolution, and biogeography. Here, we present MelastomaTRAITs 1.0, a comprehensive and updatable database of functional traits for the pantropical Melastomataceae, the ninth-largest angiosperm family with 177 genera and more than 5800 species...
April 17, 2024: Ecology
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Shyam M Thomas, Michael R Verhoeven, Jake R Walsh, Daniel J Larkin, Gretchen J A Hansen
Forecasting invasion risk under future climate conditions is critical for the effective management of invasive species, and species distribution models (SDMs) are key tools for doing so. However, SDM-based forecasts are uncertain, especially when correlative statistical models extrapolate to nonanalog environmental domains, such as future climate conditions. Different assumptions about the functional form of the temperature-suitability relationship can impact predicted habitat suitability under novel conditions...
April 13, 2024: Ecology
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Ingridi Camboim Franceschi, Rubem Augusto da Paixão Dornas, Isabel Salgueiro Lermen, Artur Vicente Pfeifer Coelho, Ademir Henrique Vilas Boas, Adriano Garcia Chiarello, Adriano Pereira Paglia, Agnis Cristiane de Souza, Alana Rafaela Borsekowsky, Alessandro Rocha, Alex Bager, Alexander Zaidan de Souza, Alexandre Martins Costa Lopes, Aloysio Souza de Moura, Aluane Silva Ferreira, Alvaro García-Olaechea, Ana Cláudia Delciellos, Ana Elisa de Faria Bacellar, Ana Kellen Nogueira Campelo, Ana Maria Oliveira Paschoal, Anderson Claudino Rolim, André Luiz Ferreira da Silva, Andre Monnerat Lanna, André Pereira da Silva, Andresa Guimarães, Ângela Cardoso, Angelica Soligo Cassol, Anna Ludmilla da Costa-Pinto, Ariel Guilherme Santos do Nascimento, Arthur Soares Fernandes, Aryanne Clyvia, Aureo Banhos Dos Santos, Barbara Lima-Silva, Beatriz de Mello Beisiegel, Beatriz Fernandes Lima Luciano, Bernardo de Faria Leopoldo, Bruna Nunes Krobel, Bruno Busnello Kubiak, Bruno Henrique Saranholi, Bruno Senna Correa, Caio Sant Anna Teixeira, Camila Rezende Ayroza, Camila Righetto Cassano, Camilo Benitez-Riveros, Carla Cristina Gestich, Carla Denise Tedesco, Carla Gheler-Costa, Carla Grasiele Zanin Hegel, Carlito da Silva Evangelista Junior, Carlos Eduardo Morando Faria Ferreira, Carlos Eduardo Viveiros Grelle, Carolina Franco Esteves, Caroline da Costa Espinosa, Caroline Leuchtenberger, Catalina Sanchéz-Lalinde, Cauanne Iglesias Campos Machado, Cecilia Andreazzi, Cecília Bueno, Cecilia Cronemberger de Faria, Claudio Novaes, Cynthia Elisa Widmer, Cyntia Cavalcante Santos, Daniel da Silva Ferraz, Daniel Galiano, Daniela Aparecida Savariz Bôlla, Daniela Behs, Daniele Pereira Rodrigues, Danielle Picão de Melo, Déborah Maria Soares Ramos, Denise Lidório de Mattia, Diego Dias Pavei, Diogo Loretto, Douglas da Silva Huning, Douglas de Matos Dias, Éder Ricardo Paetzhold, Elaine Rios, Eleonore Zulnara Freire Setz, Eliana Cazetta, Emanuel Giovani Cafofo Silva, Emanuelle Pasa, Erica Naomi Saito, Erick Francisco Silva de Aguiar, Érika Paula Castro, Ernesto Bastos Viveiros de Castro, Ezequiel Pedó, Fabiane de Aguiar Pereira, Fábio Bolzan, Fábio de Oliveira Roque, Fábio Dias Mazim, Fábio Henrique Comin, Fábio Maffei, Felipe Bortolotto Peters, Felipe Moreli Fantacini, Felipe Pessoa da Silva, Felipe Santana Machado, Felipe Vélez-Garcia, Fernanda Stussi Duarte Lage, Fernando Araújo Perini, Fernando Camargo Passos, Fernando Carvalho, Fernando Cesar Cascelli de Azevedo, Fernando Ferreira, Fernando Ferreira de Pinho, Flávia Guimarães Chaves, Flavia Regina Miranda, Flavio Henrique Guimarães Rodrigues, Flávio Kulaif Ubaid, Francisco Homem Gabriel, Franco Leandro de Souza, Fred Victor de Oliveira, Gabriel Cupolillo, Gabriela de Araújo Pires Moreira, Gabriela Mette, Gabriela Teixeira Duarte, Gabrielle Beca, Gilberto Corso, Gilmar Perbiche-Neves, Glauber Henrique Borges de Oliveira Souto, Glenda Jéssica da Silva Vilarroel, Graziele O Batista, Guilherme Braga Ferreira, Gustavo Alves da Costa Toledo, Gustavo Senger, Helena de Godoy Bergallo, Hellen Cristina Pinheiro Dos Santos, Humberto Angelo Gazola, Isabel Melo, Ismael Verrastro Brack, Iuri Veríssimo, Ivan Réus Viana, Izabela Costa Laurentino, Jaime Luis Diehl, Jairo José Zocche, Jimi Martins-Silva, João Paulo Gava Just, Jorge José Cherem, Jorge Luiz Nascimento, Jorge Reppold Marinho, José Oliveira Dantas, Jose Roberto de Matos, José Salatiel Rodrigues Pires, Josi Fernanda Cerveira, Juan Ruiz-Esparza, Juliana Paulo da Silva, Juliano André Bogoni, Karina Theodoro Molina, Karla Dayane de Lima Pereira, Karoline Ceron, Kristel de Vleeschouwer, Laís Lautenschlager, Larissa Bailey, Larissa Fornitano, Lilian Elaine Rampim, Lorena Sforza, Luan Gonçalves Bissa, Luca Mattos Santucci, Lucas Gonçalves da Silva, Lucas Neves Perillo, Lucas Ribeiro Correa, Ludmila Hufnagel, Luis Fernando Alberti, Luis Jose Recalde Mello, Luis Renato Rezende Bernardo, Luiz Gustavo Rodrigues Oliveira-Santos, Luiza Neves Guimarães, Maíra Benchimol, Manuela Catharina Twardowschy, Marcela Ferreira-Riveros, Marcelo da Silva, Márcia Maria de Assis Jardim, Marco Aurélio Leite Fontes, Marcos Adriano Tortato, Marcos Tadeu do Nascimento, Margareth Lumy Sekiama, Maria Clara Nascimento-Costa, Maria Ester Bueno Dos Santos, Maria Santina de Castro Morini, Mariana Baldy Nagy-Reis, Mariane da Cruz Kaizer, Mariano José Ribeiro da Silva Sant'Anna, Marilia Teresinha Hartmann, Marina Ochoa Favarini, Marina Oliveira Olivo, Martín Alejandro Montes, Martin Roberto Del Valle Alvaréz, Matheus Feldstein Haddad, Maurício Djalles Costa, Maurício Eduardo Graipel, Mauricio Quoos Konzen, Mauro Galetti, Meyline de Oliveira Souza Almeida, Michel Barros Faria, Micheli Ribeiro Luiz, Michelle Noronha da Matta Baptista, Miguel Ângelo Marini, Milton Cezar Ribeiro, Natalie Olifiers, Natasha Moraes de Albuquerque, Nicolás Cantero, Nivaldo Peroni, Noeli Zanella, Olívia Mendonça-Furtado, Olivier Pays, Orlando Ednei Ferretti, Oscar Rocha-Barbosa, Paloma Marques Santos, Patrícia Menegaz de Farias, Patrício Adriano da Rocha, Paul François Colas-Rosas, Paula Ribeiro-Souza, Paula Ferracioli, Paulo Afonso Hartmann, Paulo de Tarso Zuquim Antas, Paulo Ribeiro, Paulo Tomasi Sarti, Paulo Ivo Mônico, Pedro Volkmer de Castilho, Peônia Brito de Moraes Pereira, Peter Gransden Crawshaw, Pierre-Cyril Renaud, Rafael Spilere Romagna, Rafael Turíbio Moraes de Sousa, Raíssa Soares Spagnol, Raone Beltrão-Mendes, Ravi Fernandes Mariano, Renata Reinoso Rocha, Renata Sousa-Lima, Renata Valls Pagotto, Rhayssa Terra de Faria, Ricardo Corassa Arrais, Ricardo Moratelli, Ricardo Sartorello, Rita de Cassia Bianchi, Roberto de Carvalho Guimarães, Rodrigo Lima Massara, Romulo Theodoro Costa, Rosane Vera Marques, Ruan Márcio Ruas Nunes, Sandra Maria Hartz, Saulo Meneses Silvestre de Sousa, Saulo Ramos Lima, Sergio Lutz Barbosa, Silvia Neri Godoy, Stephen Francis Ferrari, Talita Guimarães de Araújo-Piovezan, Talita Laura Góes, Tatiane Campos Trigo, Thales R O de Freitas, Thiago Bernardes Maccarini, Thiago Marcial de Castro, Thiago Ribas Bella, Tonny Marques de Oliveira Junior, Uslaine Maciel Cunha, Vanessa Tavares Kanaan, Vera Pfannerstill, Victor Siqueira Pimentel, Vilmar Picinatto Filho, Vinícius Nunes Alves, Viviana Rojas-Bonzi, Viviane Mottin, Vlamir José Rocha, Andreas Kindel, Igor Pfeifer Coelho
Camera traps became the main observational method of a myriad of species over large areas. Data sets from camera traps can be used to describe the patterns and monitor the occupancy, abundance, and richness of wildlife, essential information for conservation in times of rapid climate and land-cover changes. Habitat loss and poaching are responsible for historical population losses of mammals in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot, especially for medium to large-sized species. Here we present a data set from camera trap surveys of medium to large-sized native mammals (>1 kg) across the Atlantic Forest...
April 12, 2024: Ecology
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Anna W Paraskevopoulos, Nathan J Sanders, Julian Resasco
Identifying the mechanisms underlying the changes in the distribution of species is critical to accurately predict how species have responded and will respond to climate change. Here, we take advantage of a late-1950s study on ant assemblages in a canyon near Boulder, Colorado, USA, to understand how and why species distributions have changed over a 60-year period. Community composition changed over 60 years with increasing compositional similarity among ant assemblages. Community composition differed significantly between the periods, with aspect and tree cover influencing composition...
April 9, 2024: Ecology
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Nina H Witteveen, Cheryl White, Barbara A Sánchez-Martínez, Annemarie Philip, Femke Boyd, Roemer Booij, Reyan Christ, Santosh Singh, William D Gosling, Dolores R Piperno, Crystal N H McMichael
Disturbances in tropical forests can have long-lasting ecological impacts, but their manifestations (ecological legacies) in modern forests are uncertain. Many Amazonian forests bear the mark of past soil modifications, species enrichments, and fire events, but the trajectories of ecological legacies from the pre-contact or post-colonial period remain relatively unexplored. We assessed the fire and vegetation history from 15 soil cores ranging from 0 to 10 km from a post-colonial Surinamese archaeological site...
April 8, 2024: Ecology
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Sébastien Rivest, Stephen T Lee, Daniel Cook, Jessica R K Forrest
Plants produce an array of defensive compounds with toxic or deterrent effects on insect herbivores. Pollen can contain relatively high concentrations of such defense compounds, but the causes and consequences of this enigmatic phenomenon remain mostly unknown. These compounds could potentially protect pollen against antagonists but could also reduce flower attractiveness to pollinators. We combined field observations of the pollen-rewarding Lupinus argenteus with chemical analysis and laboratory assays to test three hypotheses for the presence of pollen defense compounds: (1) these compounds are the result of spillover from adjacent tissues, (2) they protect against pollen thieves, and (3) they act as antimicrobial compounds...
April 8, 2024: Ecology
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Margaret W Simon, Priyanga Amarasekare
Climate warming is predicted to increase mean temperatures and thermal extremes on a global scale. Because their body temperature depends on the environmental temperature, ectotherms bear the full brunt of climate warming. Predicting the impact of climate warming on ectotherm diversity and distributions requires a framework that can translate temperature effects on ectotherm life-history traits into population- and community-level outcomes. Here we present a mechanistic theoretical framework that can predict the fundamental thermal niche and climate envelope of ectotherm species based on how temperature affects the underlying life-history traits...
April 5, 2024: Ecology
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Lyubov E Burlakova, Alexander Y Karatayev, Allison R Hrycik, Susan E Daniel, Knut Mehler, Elizabeth K Hinchey, Ronald Dermott, Ronald Griffiths, Lillian E Denecke
Benthic invertebrates are important trophic links in food webs and useful bioindicators of environmental conditions, but long-term benthic organism abundance data across broad geographic areas are rare and historic datasets are often not readily accessible. This dataset provides densities of benthic macroinvertebrates collected from 1930 to 2019 during surveys in Lake Erie, a Laurentian Great Lake. The surveys were funded by the governments of the United States and Canada to investigate the status and changes in the benthic community...
April 3, 2024: Ecology
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Max Zaret, Linda Kinkel, Elizabeth T Borer, Eric W Seabloom
Plants face trade-offs between allocating resources to growth, while also defending against herbivores or pathogens. Species differences along defense trade-off axes may promote coexistence and maintain diversity. However, few studies of plant communities have simultaneously compared defense trade-offs against an array of herbivores and pathogens for which defense investment may differ, and even fewer have been conducted in the complex natural communities in which these interactions unfold. We tested predictions about the role of defense trade-offs with competition and growth in diversity maintenance by tracking plant species abundance in a field experiment that removed individual consumer groups (mammals, arthropods, fungi) and added nutrients...
April 3, 2024: Ecology
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Fabiola Ospina-Bautista, Diane S Srivastava, Emilio Realpe, Ana María Fernández
The effects of biodiversity on ecological processes have been experimentally evaluated mainly at the local scale under homogeneous conditions. To scale up experimentally based biodiversity-functioning relationships, there is an urgent need to understand how such relationships are affected by the environmental heterogeneity that characterizes larger spatial scales. Here, we tested the effects of an 800-m elevation gradient (a large-scale environmental factor) and forest habitat (a fine-scale factor) on litter diversity-decomposition relationships...
April 2, 2024: Ecology
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Kamaraj Mohan, Sayantan Das, Mewa Singh
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April 1, 2024: Ecology
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Walter H Piper, Max R Glines, Kevin C Rose
Climate change has myriad impacts on ecosystems, but the mechanisms by which it affects individual species can be difficult to pinpoint. One strategy to discover such mechanisms is to identify a specific ecological factor related to survival or reproduction and determine how that factor is affected by climate. Here we used Landsat imagery to calculate water clarity for 127 lakes in northern Wisconsin from 1995 to 2021 and thus investigate the effect of clarity on the body condition of an aquatic visual predator, the common loon (Gavia immer)...
March 31, 2024: Ecology
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Yuta Sunakawa, Ko Mochizuki, Atsushi Kawakita
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March 29, 2024: Ecology
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Marc Kéry, J Andrew Royle, Tyler Hallman, W Douglas Robinson, Nicolas Strebel, Kenneth F Kellner
Point counts (PCs) are widely used in biodiversity surveys but, despite numerous advantages, simple PCs suffer from several problems: detectability, and therefore abundance, is unknown; systematic spatiotemporal variation in detectability yields biased inferences, and unknown survey area prevents formal density estimation and scaling-up to the landscape level. We introduce integrated distance sampling (IDS) models that combine distance sampling (DS) with simple PC or detection/nondetection (DND) data to capitalize on the strengths and mitigate the weaknesses of each data type...
March 27, 2024: Ecology
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Víctor Sazatornil, Mihir Godbole, Neha Panchamia, Gayatri Rajgurav Awadhani, Nachiket Awadhani, José Vicente López-Bao
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 27, 2024: Ecology
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Adrián Barrero, Juan Traba, Rocío Tarjuelo
Competition is a prominent mechanism driving population dynamics and structuring community assemblage, which can be investigated by linking shifts in species' ecological niche and the densities of sympatric species because the ecological release from competitive constraints is a density-dependent process. In this work we determine how a steppe passerine community segregates their ecological niches and evaluate the role of competition in inducing changes in the ecological niche of species. We built multidimensional ecological niches (with Gaussian kernel density estimators) using data on the habitat features used by 10 bird species collected from seven sites in the natural steppes of Central Spain over 2 consecutive years...
March 25, 2024: Ecology
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Lixuan Kou, Nan Yang, Han Yan, Karl J Niklas, Shucun Sun
Although herbivores are well known to incur positive density-dependent damage and mortality, thereby likely shaping plant community assembly, the response of belowground root feeders to changes in plant density has seldom been addressed. Locally rare plant species (with lower plant biomass per area) are often smaller with shallower roots than common species (with higher plant biomass per area) in competition-intensive grasslands. Likewise, root feeders are often distributed in the upper soil layers. We hypothesized, therefore, that root feeders would incur negative density (biomass)-dependent damage across plant species...
March 24, 2024: Ecology
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Maowei Liang, Thomas Lamy, Daniel C Reuman, Shaopeng Wang, Tom W Bell, Kyle C Cavanaugh, Max C N Castorani
Biodiversity can stabilize ecological communities through biological insurance, but climate and other environmental changes may disrupt this process via simultaneous ecosystem destabilization and biodiversity loss. While changes to diversity-stability relationships (DSRs) and the underlying mechanisms have been extensively explored in terrestrial plant communities, this topic remains largely unexplored in benthic marine ecosystems that comprise diverse assemblages of producers and consumers. By analyzing two decades of kelp forest biodiversity survey data, we discovered changes in diversity, stability, and their relationships at multiple scales (biological organizational levels, spatial scales, and functional groups) that were linked with the most severe marine heatwave ever documented in the North Pacific Ocean...
March 24, 2024: Ecology
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