Search Results - "Emilio M Bruna"

The scientific impact of nations: journal placement and citation performance by Smith, Matthew J, Weinberger, Cody, Bruna, Emilio M, Allesina, Stefano

“…International collaboration is becoming increasingly important for the advancement of science. To gain a more precise understanding of how factors such as…”
Get full text

The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation by Laurance, William F., Camargo, José L.C., Luizão, Regina C.C., Laurance, Susan G., Pimm, Stuart L., Bruna, Emilio M., Stouffer, Philip C., Bruce Williamson, G., Benítez-Malvido, Julieta, Vasconcelos, Heraldo L., Van Houtan, Kyle S., Zartman, Charles E., Boyle, Sarah A., Didham, Raphael K., Andrade, Ana, Lovejoy, Thomas E.

“…We synthesize findings to date from the world’s largest and longest-running experimental study of habitat fragmentation, located in central Amazonia. Over the…”
Get full text

Assessing the effect of article processing charges on the geographic diversity of authors using Elsevier’s “Mirror Journal” system by Smith, Audrey C., Merz, Leandra, Borden, Jesse B., Gulick, Chris K., Kshirsagar, Akhil R., Bruna, Emilio M.

“…Journals publishing open access (OA) articles often require that authors pay article processing charges (APC). Researchers in the Global South often cite APCs…”
Get full text

A persistent lack of international representation on editorial boards in environmental biology by Espin, Johanna, Palmas, Sebastian, Carrasco-Rueda, Farah, Riemer, Kristina, Allen, Pablo E, Berkebile, Nathan, Hecht, Kirsten A, Kastner-Wilcox, Kay, Núñez-Regueiro, Mauricio M, Prince, Candice, Rios, Constanza, Ross, Erica, Sangha, Bhagatveer, Tyler, Tia, Ungvari-Martin, Judit, Villegas, Mariana, Cataldo, Tara T, Bruna, Emilio M

“…The scholars comprising journal editorial boards play a critical role in defining the trajectory of knowledge in their field. Nevertheless, studies of…”
Get full text

Changes in tree reproductive traits reduce functional diversity in a fragmented Atlantic forest landscape by Girão, Luciana Coe, Lopes, Ariadna Valentina, Tabarelli, Marcelo, Bruna, Emilio M

“…Functional diversity has been postulated to be critical for the maintenance of ecosystem functioning, but the way it can be disrupted by human-related…”
Get full text

Disentangling the drivers of reduced long-distance seed dispersal by birds in an experimentally fragmented landscape by Uriarte, Maríía, Anciãães, Marina, da Silva, Mariana T. B, Rubim, Paulo, Johnson, Erik, Bruna, Emilio M

“…Seed dispersal is a crucial component of plant population dynamics. Human landscape modifications, such as habitat destruction and fragmentation, can alter the…”
Get full text

Longevity can buffer plant and animal populations against changing climatic variability by Morris, W.F, Pfister, C.A, Tuljapurkar, S, Haridas, C.V, Boggs, C.L, Boyce, M.S, Bruna, E.M, Church, D.R, Coulson, T, Doak, D.F

“…Both means and year-to-year variances of climate variables such as temperature and precipitation are predicted to change. However, the potential impact of…”
Get full text

Dynamics of the leaf-litter arthropod fauna following fire in a neotropical woodland savanna by Vasconcelos, Heraldo L, Pacheco, Renata, Silva, Raphael C, Vasconcelos, Pedro B, Lopes, Cauê T, Costa, Alan N, Bruna, Emilio M

“…Fire is an important agent of disturbance in tropical savannas, but relatively few studies have analyzed how soil-and-litter dwelling arthropods respond to…”
Get full text

Do herbivores exert top-down effects in Neotropical savannas? Estimates of biomass consumption by leaf-cutter ants by Costa, Alan N, Vasconcelos, Heraldo L, Vieira-Neto, Ernane H. M, Bruna, Emilio M

“…Question: Plant communities in Paleotropical savannas are regulated by a combination of bottom-up and top-down effects. However, the paucity of ungulates and…”
Get full text

Fundamental errors of data collection and validation undermine claims of ideological intensification in STEM by Bruna, Emilio M

Get full text

Ecosystem Decay of Amazonian Forest Fragments: a 22-Year Investigation by Laurance, William F., Lovejoy, Thomas E., Vasconcelos, Heraldo L., Bruna, Emilio M., Didham, Raphael K., Stouffer, Philip C., Gascon, Claude, Bierregaard, Richard O., Laurance, Susan G., Sampaio, Erica

“…We synthesized key findings from the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, the world's largest and longest-running experimental study of habitat…”
Get full text

Do an ecosystem engineer and environmental gradient act independently or in concert to shape juvenile plant communities? Tests with the leaf-cutter ant Atta laevigata in a Neotropical savanna by Costa, Alan N, Bruna, Emilio M, Vasconcelos, Heraldo L

“…Ecosystem engineers are species that transform habitats in ways that influence other species.While the impacts of many engineers have been well described, our…”
Get full text

Women are underrepresented on the editorial boards of journals in environmental biology and natural resource management by Cho, Alyssa H, Johnson, Shelly A, Schuman, Carrie E, Adler, Jennifer M, Gonzalez, Oscar, Graves, Sarah J, Huebner, Jana R, Marchant, D Blaine, Rifai, Sami W, Skinner, Irina, Bruna, Emilio M

“…Despite women earning similar numbers of graduate degrees as men in STEM disciplines, they are underrepresented in upper level positions in both academia and…”
Get full text

Correctly Estimating How Environmental Stochasticity Influences Fitness and Population Growth by Doak, Daniel F., Morris, William F., Pfister, Cathy, Kendall, Bruce E., Bruna, Emilio M.

“…Increased temporal variance in life‐history traits is generally predicted to decrease individual fitness and population growth. We show that a widely used…”
Get full text

Low plant density enhances gene dispersal in the Amazonian understory herb Heliconia acuminata by Côrtes, Marina C., Uriarte, María, Lemes, Maristerra R., Gribel, Rogério, John Kress, W., Smouse, Peter E., Bruna, Emilio M.

“…In theory, conservation genetics predicts that forest fragmentation will reduce gene dispersal, but in practice, genetic and ecological processes are also…”
Get full text

Resilient networks of ant-plant mutualists in Amazonian forest fragments by Passmore, Heather A, Bruna, Emilio M, Heredia, Sylvia M, Vasconcelos, Heraldo L

“…The organization of networks of interacting species, such as plants and animals engaged in mutualisms, strongly influences the ecology and evolution of partner…”
Get full text

Attack frequency and the tolerance to herbivory of Neotropical savanna trees by Mundim, Fabiane M., Bruna, Emilio M., Vieira-Neto, Ernane H. M., Vasconcelos, Heraldo L.

“…Tolerance is the ability of a plant to regrow or reproduce following damage. While experimental studies typically measure tolerance in response to the…”
Get full text

Experimental test for facilitation of seedling recruitment by the dominant bunchgrass in a fire-maintained savanna by Iacona, Gwenllian D, Kirkman, L Katherine, Bruna, Emilio M

“…Facilitative interactions between neighboring plants can influence community composition, especially in locations where environmental stress is a factor…”
Get full text

Habitat fragmentation and plant populations: is what we know demographically irrelevant by Bruna, Emilio M., Fiske, Ian J., Trager, Matthew D.

“…Habitat fragmentation is considered a leading cause of plant extinction, and matrix models provide a powerful set of tools with which to identifying mechanisms…”
Get full text

Asymmetric dispersal and colonization success of Amazonian plant-ants queens by Bruna, Emilio M, Izzo, Thiago J, Inouye, Brian D, Uriarte, Maria, Vasconcelos, Heraldo L

“…The dispersal ability of queens is central to understanding ant life-history evolution, and plays a fundamental role in ant population and community dynamics,…”
Get full text