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Response of Common and Rare Beetle Species to Tree Species and Vertical Stratif...

Vertical stratification and host tree species are factors with a high influence on the structure of communities of xylobiont beetles. However, little is known about how this influence varies between common and rare species. Based on estimated species richness, we compared alpha and beta diversity patterns of common and rare species in the canopy of the Leipzig floodplain forest to assess their response to verti...

Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful ...

Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T12:17:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-11-23; Villanova Univ, Dept Biol, Villanova, PA 19085 USA; Museu Nacl Hist Nat & Ciencia, Lisbon, Portugal; Univ Brasilia, Dept Zool, Inst Ciencias Biol, BR-70910900 Brasilia, DF, Brazil; Smithsonian Inst, Natl Museum Nat Hist, Washington, DC 20560 USA; Sorbonne Univ, Museum Natl Hist Nat, ISYEB, Paris, France...

Genetic diversity and spatial structure of the Rufous-throated Antbird (Gymnopi...

Amazonian understory antbirds are thought to be relatively sedentary and to have limited dispersal ability; they avoid crossing forest gaps, and even narrow roads through a forest may limit their territories. However, most evidence for sedentariness in antbirds comes from field observations and plot-based recapture of adult individuals, which do not provide evidence for lack of genetic dispersal, as this often ...

Nature conservation - A new dimension in open access publishing bridging scienc...

This Editorial presents the focus, scope and policies of the inaugural issue of Nature Conservation, a new open access, peer-reviewed journal bridging natural sciences, social sciences and hands-on applications in conservation management. The journal covers all aspects of nature conservation and aims particularly at facilitating better interaction between scientists and practitioners. The journal will impose no...

Confronting and coping with uncertainty in biodiversity research and praxis

This paper summarises discussions in a workshop entitled "exploring uncertainties in biodiversity science, policy and management". It draws together experiences gained by scientists and scholars when encountering and coping with different types of uncertainty in their work in the field of biodiversity protection. The discussion covers all main phases of scientific work: field work and data analysis; methodologi...

Environmental characteristics drive variation in Amazonian understorey bird ass...

Tropical bird assemblages display patterns of high alpha and beta diversity and, as tropical birds exhibit strong habitat specificity, their spatial distributions are generally assumed to be driven primarily by environmental heterogeneity and interspecific interactions. However, spatial distributions of some Amazonian forest birds are also often restricted by large rivers and other large-scale topographic featu...

Long-term carbon loss in fragmented Neotropical forests

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-18T15:54:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-10-01; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Fundacao O Boticario de Protecao a Natureza; BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research); Brazilian Science Council (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cien...

Effects of species turnover on reserve site selection in a fragmented landscape