Search Results - "Duarte, Leandro D. S"
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Clade‐specific consequences of climate change to amphibians in Atlantic Forest protected areas
Published in Ecography (Copenhagen) (2014)“…The rapid global decline of amphibian population is alarming because many occur for apparently unknown or enigmatic reasons, even inside protected areas (PAs)…”
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Bivalve distribution in hydrographic regions in South America: historical overview and conservation
Published in Hydrobiologia (01-09-2014)“…Based on literature review and malacological collections, 168 native freshwater bivalve and five invasive species have been recorded for 52 hydrographic…”
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Habitat filtering influences the phylogenetic structure of avian communities across a coastal gradient in southern Brazil
Published in Austral ecology (01-02-2014)“…The evolution of a particular trait or combination of traits within lineages may affect subsequent evolutionary outcomes, leading closely related species to…”
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global meta‐analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities
Published in Ecology letters (01-12-2015)“…Recent studies have shown that accounting for intraspecific trait variation (ITV) may better address major questions in community ecology. However, a general…”
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framework for metacommunity analysis of phylogenetic structure
Published in Ecology letters (01-05-2010)“…Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 587-596 It is well known that species evolutionary history plays a crucial role in community assembly. Here, we offer a formal…”
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Spatial and phylogenetic structure drive frugivory in Tyrannidae birds across the range of Brazilian Araucaria forests
Published in Oikos (01-06-2012)“…We aimed to verify if frugivory in Tyrannidae birds (tyrants flycatchers) is influenced by environmental conditions, spatial filters, phylogenetic structure…”
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Functional redundancy and stability in plant communities
Published in Journal of vegetation science (01-09-2013)“…Questions: Functional redundancy in assemblages may insure ecosystem processes after perturbation, potentially causing temporary or permanent local species…”
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Evolutionary history as a driver of ecological networks: a case study of plant–hummingbird interactions
Published in Oikos (01-04-2018)“…Multiple factors drive species interactions in ecological networks, such as morphological barriers, spatio–temporal distribution, abundances and evolutionary…”
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Assessing spatial and environmental drivers of phylogenetic structure in Brazilian Araucaria forests
Published in Ecography (Copenhagen) (01-10-2012)“…Evidence of phylogenetic conservatism in plant ecological traits has accumulated over the past few years, suggesting an interplay between the distribution of…”
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Insect herbivory fluctuations through geological time
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-09-2016)“…Arthropods and land plants are the major macroscopic sources of biodiversity on the planet. Knowledge of the organization and specialization of plant-herbivore…”
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Is evolution faster at ecotones? A test using rates and tempo of diet transitions in Neotropical Sigmodontinae (Rodentia, Cricetidae)
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-12-2021)“…We evaluated whether evolution is faster at ecotones as niche shifts may be needed to persist under unstable environment. We mapped diet evolution along the…”
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Dissecting phylogenetic fuzzy weighting: theory and application in metacommunity phylogenetics
Published in Methods in ecology and evolution (01-08-2016)“…Summary Metacommunity phylogenetics aims at evaluating environmental and/or historical factors driving clade distribution. Phylogenetic fuzzy weighting (PFW)…”
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Analyzing community-weighted trait means across environmental gradients: should phylogeny stay or should it go?
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-02-2018)“…Functional traits mediate ecological responses of organisms to the environment, determining community structure. Community-weighted trait means (CWM) are often…”
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Elevational shifts in phylogenetic diversity of angiosperm trees across the subtropical Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Published in Austral ecology (01-05-2021)“…Elevation gradients are drivers of species diversity, and, recently, studies have considered the evolutionary process in shaping community assembly patterns…”
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Geographical variation of body size in sigmodontine rodents depends on both environment and phylogenetic composition of communities
Published in Journal of biogeography (01-06-2016)“…AIM: Body size variation in animal assemblages is a widely addressed pattern in biogeographical studies, and is affected by both environmental gradients and…”
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Between- and within-species trait variability and the assembly of sapling communities in forest patches
Published in Journal of vegetation science (01-01-2015)“…Questions: What is the magnitude of between-species trait variability (BSV) and within-species trait variability (WSV) of specific leaf area (SLA) in a sapling…”
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Phylogenetic and functional structure of climbing plant assemblages in woody patches advancing over Campos grassland
Published in Journal of vegetation science (01-11-2017)“…Question: Analysing taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional species distribution across a metacommunity allows understanding of how landscape dynamics may…”
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Geographical patterns of body mass distribution are robust even when inserting uncertainty in average estimates of species body mass
Published in Journal of biogeography (01-11-2017)“…Pardiñas, Valenzuela, and Salazar-Bravo (2017) are concerned that eventual differences in species mean body masses and in the phylogenetic hypothesis used in…”
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Role of nurse plants in Araucaria Forest expansion over grassland in south Brazil
Published in Austral ecology (01-06-2006)“…Araucaria Forest expansion over grassland takes place under wet climate conditions and low disturbance and it is hypothesized that isolated trees established…”
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Individual-based trait analyses reveal assembly patterns in tree sapling communities
Published in Journal of vegetation science (01-02-2012)“…Question: Are trait-convergence assembly patterns (TCAP) and/or traitdivergence assembly patterns (TDAP) of tree sapling communities related to microhabitat…”
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