Search Results - "Baccaro, Fabrício"
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Eighty-four per cent of all Amazonian arboreal plant individuals are useful to humans
Published in PloS one (01-10-2021)“…Plants have been used in Amazonian forests for millennia and some of these plants are disproportionally abundant (hyperdominant). At local scales, people…”
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Ant sharing by plant species bearing extrafloral nectaries has a low impact on plant herbivory in a tropical system
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-10-2024)“…Plant species bearing extrafloral nectaries (EFNs) may indirectly influence other plant species by sharing protective ants, potentially altering herbivory…”
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A large‐scale assessment of ant diversity across the Brazilian Amazon Basin: integrating geographic, ecological and morphological drivers of sampling bias
Published in Ecography (Copenhagen) (01-09-2022)“…Tropical ecosystems are often biodiversity hotspots, and invertebrates represent the main underrepresented component of diversity in large‐scale analyses. This…”
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Common ant species dominate morphospace: unraveling the morphological diversity in the Brazilian Amazon Basin
Published in Ecography (Copenhagen) (01-11-2024)“…Rare plant and vertebrate species have been documented to contribute disproportionately to the total morphological structure of species assemblages. These…”
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Ants of Brazil: an overview based on 50 years of diversity studies
Published in Systematics and biodiversity (31-12-2022)“…Despite the historical efforts to list and organize the taxonomic knowledge about the Brazilian ant fauna, the most diverse in the world, several gaps…”
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A systematic review of the land use change effects on ant diversity in Neotropics
Published in Biological conservation (01-11-2024)“…Land use changes represent one of the leading causes of terrestrial biodiversity loss, particularly in tropical ecosystems. In Brazil, a country that…”
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Ant diversity decreases during the dry season: A meta‐analysis of the effects of seasonality on ant richness and abundance
Published in Biotropica (01-01-2023)“…Tropical studies traditionally describe insect diversity variation throughout the year. The temporally structured responses of insect assemblages to climate…”
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Brazilian public funding for biodiversity research in the Amazon
Published in Perspectives in ecology and conservation (01-01-2024)“…[Display omitted] •The federal grants and scholarships are uneven distributed between Brazilian regions.•The North region receives the least number of…”
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From species descriptions to diversity patterns: the validation of taxonomic data as a keystone for ant diversity studies reproducibility and accuracy
Published in Royal Society open science (08-02-2023)“…Research findings in natural sciences need to be comparable and reproducible to effectively improve our understanding of ecological and behavioural patterns…”
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Taxonomic and functional structure of understorey bird assemblages on Amazonian seasonally flooded river islands
Published in Biological journal of the Linnean Society (01-12-2023)“…The seasonal inundation of the floodplains of the Amazonian rivers is a natural and strong environmental filter for biota. Its effects on the taxonomic and…”
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Fine roots stimulate nutrient release during early stages of leaf litter decomposition in a Central Amazon rainforest
Published in Plant and soil (01-12-2021)“…Purpose Large parts of the Amazon rainforest grow on weathered soils depleted in phosphorus and rock-derived cations. We tested the hypothesis that in this…”
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Air transportation, population density and temperature predict the spread of COVID-19 in Brazil
Published in PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) (03-06-2020)“…There is evidence that COVID-19, the disease caused by the betacoronavirus SARS-CoV-2, is sensitive to environmental conditions. However, such conditions often…”
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Direct and indirect effects of geographic and environmental factors on ant beta diversity across Amazon basin
Published in Oecologia (2022)“…Understanding the direct and indirect effects of niche and neutral processes in structuring species diversity is particularly challenging because environmental…”
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Spatial patterns of medium and large size mammal assemblages in várzea and terra firme forests, Central Amazonia, Brazil
Published in PloS one (30-05-2018)“…Várzea forests account for 17% of the Amazon basin and endure an annual inundation that can reach 14 m deep during 6-8 months. This flood pulse in combination…”
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Variation in the production of plant tissues bearing extrafloral nectaries explains temporal patterns of ant attendance in Amazonian understorey plants
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-07-2020)“…Information on direct and indirect drivers of temporal variation in ant–plant interactions is scarce, compromising our ability to predict the functioning of…”
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Pre-Columbian floristic legacies in modern homegardens of Central Amazonia
Published in PloS one (01-06-2015)“…Historical ecologists have demonstrated legacy effects in apparently wild landscapes in Europe, North America, Mesoamerica, Amazonia, Africa and Oceania…”
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Assessing the efficacy of higher‐taxon approach for ant species surveys to improve biodiversity inventories
Published in Animal conservation (01-06-2022)“…Understanding the distribution of species is essential for the conservation and management of biodiversity. But the availability of this kind of information is…”
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Divergent effects of lure on multi-species camera-trap detections and quality of photos
Published in Journal for nature conservation (01-02-2023)“…The use of attractants to increase detection of target species, such as carnivores, in camera trap studies must be tested for its effectiveness and be…”
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Predicting the South American invasion pathways of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum Linnaeus 1761 (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) using species distribution models
Published in Insect conservation and diversity (01-07-2023)“…Cloeon dipterum is one of the rare exotic aquatic insect species found in the American continent. The species was recently introduced to Argentina. Apart from…”
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For emergency only: terrestrial feeding in Coimbra-Filho’s titis reflects seasonal arboreal resource availability
Published in Primates (2021)“…Terrestriality in Platyrrhine primates is primarily associated with low arboreal resource availability, low predation risk when on the ground and increased…”
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