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Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain underst...

Experimental forest fragmentation alters Amazonian mixed-species flocks

Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-10T19:51:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-02-01; US National Science Foundation; National Geographic Society; National Institute of Food and Agriculture, US Department of Agriculture, McIntire Stennis projects; Habitat fragmentation has been associated with myriad negative effects for forest-dependent birds in the Neotropics. However, the vast majorit...

Major range extension for Orange-fronted Plushcrown Metopothrix aurantiaca in t...

Orange-fronted Plushcrown Metopothrix aurantiaca is a unique, but easily overlooked, small furnariid found in the midstorey and canopy of riverine areas in the Amazon. The species' previously published distribution includes parts of southernmost Colombia, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia and western Brazil. In the easternmost part of its distribution (Brazil), M. aurantiaca occurs in the states o...

Twenty years later: an update to the birds of the Biological Dynamics of Forest...

Avian ecological succession in the Amazon: A long-term case study following exp...

Approximately 20% of the Brazilian Amazon has now been deforested, and the Amazon is currently experiencing the highest rates of deforestation in a decade, leading to large-scale land-use changes. Roads have consistently been implicated as drivers of ongoing Amazon deforestation and may act as corridors to facilitate species invasions. Long-term data, however, are necessary to determine how ecological successio...

Twenty years later: An update to the birds of the biological dynamics of forest...

Although species lists from throughout Amazonia have become available, relatively complete inventories based on longterm work remain rare. Longitudinal comparisons at well-studied sites provide the best opportunities for describing communities and identifying changes in regional avifaunas. Within central Amazonia, no region has received as much consistent ornithological coverage as the terra firme forests north...