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Determinants of tree species turnover in a southern Amazonian rain forest by Guèze, Maximilien, Paneque-Gálvez, Jaime, Luz, Ana C., Pino, Joan, Orta-Martínez, Marti, Reyes-García, Victoria, Macía, Manuel J.

“…Questions: What is the relative importance of environmental variables and geographical distances to explain tree species turnover? Are these patterns…”
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Changing indigenous cultures, economies and landscapes: The case of the Tsimane’, Bolivian Amazon by Pérez-Llorente, Irene, Paneque-Gálvez, Jaime, Luz, Ana C., Macía, Manuel J., Guèze, Maximilien, Domínguez-Gómez, Jose A., Reyes-García, Victoria

“…•We assess the link between cultural and economic changes and landscapes.•Villages along the main road have suffered more cultural changes.•Economic activities…”
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How Does Cultural Change Affect Indigenous Peoples’ Hunting Activity? An Empirical Study Among the Tsimane’ in the Bolivian Amazon by Luz, Ana Catarina, Guèze, Maximilien, Paneque-Gálvez, Jaime, Pino, Joan, Macía, Manuel J., Orta-Martínez, Martí, Reyes-García, Victoria

“…Wildlife hunting is an important economic activity that contributes to the subsistence of indigenous peoples and the maintenance of their cultural identity…”
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Biodiversity: The benefits of traditional knowledge by Pardo-de-Santayana, Manuel, Macía, Manuel J

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Elevation and latitude drives structure and tree species composition in Andean forests: Results from a large-scale plot network by Malizia, Agustina, Blundo, Cecilia, Carilla, Julieta, Osinaga Acosta, Oriana, Cuesta, Francisco, Duque, Alvaro, Aguirre, Nikolay, Aguirre, Zhofre, Ataroff, Michele, Baez, Selene, Calderón-Loor, Marco, Cayola, Leslie, Cayuela, Luis, Ceballos, Sergio, Cedillo, Hugo, Farfán Ríos, William, Feeley, Kenneth J, Fuentes, Alfredo Fernando, Gámez Álvarez, Luis E, Grau, Ricardo, Homeier, Juergen, Jadan, Oswaldo, Llambi, Luis Daniel, Loza Rivera, María Isabel, Macía, Manuel J, Malhi, Yadvinder, Malizia, Lucio, Peralvo, Manuel, Pinto, Esteban, Tello, Sebastián, Silman, Miles, Young, Kenneth R

“…Our knowledge about the structure and function of Andean forests at regional scales remains limited. Current initiatives to study forests over continental or…”
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Evidence of traditional knowledge loss among a contemporary indigenous society by Reyes-García, Victoria, Guèze, Maximilien, Luz, Ana C, Paneque-Gálvez, Jaime, Macía, Manuel J, Orta-Martínez, Martí, Pino, Joan, Rubio-Campillo, Xavier

“…Abstract As biological and linguistic diversity, the world’s cultural diversity is on decline. However, to date there are no estimates of the rate at which the…”
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Elevational range sizes of woody plants increase with climate variability in the Tropical Andes by Montaño‐Centellas, Flavia, Fuentes, Alfredo F., Cayola, Leslie, Macía, Manuel J., Arellano, Gabriel, Loza, M. Isabel, Nieto‐Ariza, Beatriz, Tello, J. Sebastián

“…Aim The climate variability hypothesis proposes that species subjected to wide variation in climatic conditions will evolve wider niches, resulting in larger…”
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Availability, diversification and versatility explain human selection of introduced plants in Ecuadorian traditional medicine by Hart, G, Gaoue, Orou G, de la Torre, Lucía, Navarrete, Hugo, Muriel, Priscilla, Macía, Manuel J, Balslev, Henrik, León-Yánez, Susana, Jørgensen, Peter, Duffy, David Cameron

“…Globally, a majority of people use plants as a primary source of healthcare and introduced plants are increasingly discussed as medicine. Protecting this…”
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Different patterns in medicinal plant use along an elevational gradient in northern Peruvian Andes by Corroto, Fernando, Gamarra Torres, Oscar A., Macía, Manuel J.

“…Through the study of mestizo people that share a common culture in a large geographic region and where traditional knowledge (TK) is still poorly documented,…”
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Insights on biodiversity drivers to predict species richness in tropical forests at the local scale by Mateo, Rubén G., Arellano, Gabriel, Gómez-Rubio, Virgilio, Tello, J. Sebastián, Fuentes, Alfredo F., Cayola, Leslie, Loza, M. Isabel, Cala, Victoria, Macía, Manuel J.

“…•In tropical areas, due to data scarcity, biodiversity modelling is certainly required.•Species richness is accurately predicted at a detailed resolution.•This…”
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Ethnobotanical knowledge is vastly under-documented in northwestern South America by Cámara-Leret, Rodrigo, Paniagua-Zambrana, Narel, Balslev, Henrik, Macía, Manuel J

“…A main objective of ethnobotany is to document traditional knowledge about plants before it disappears. However, little is known about the coverage of past…”
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What Is the Most Efficient Methodology for Gathering Ethnobotanical Data and for Participant Selection? Medicinal Plants as a Case Study in the Peruvian Andes by Corroto, Fernando, Macía, Manuel J.

“…What Is the Most Efficient Methodology for Gathering Ethnobotanical Data and for Participant Selection? Medicinal Plants as a Case Study in the Peruvian Andes…”
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High overlap between traditional ecological knowledge and forest conservation found in the Bolivian Amazon by Paneque-Gálvez, Jaime, Pérez-Llorente, Irene, Luz, Ana Catarina, Guèze, Maximilien, Mas, Jean-François, Macía, Manuel J., Orta-Martínez, Martí, Reyes-García, Victoria

“…It has been suggested that traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) may play a key role in forest conservation. However, empirical studies assessing to what…”
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Elevational gradients in β-diversity reflect variation in the strength of local community assembly mechanisms across spatial scales by Tello, J Sebastián, Myers, Jonathan A, Macía, Manuel J, Fuentes, Alfredo F, Cayola, Leslie, Arellano, Gabriel, Loza, M Isabel, Torrez, Vania, Cornejo, Maritza, Miranda, Tatiana B, Jørgensen, Peter M

“…Despite long-standing interest in elevational-diversity gradients, little is known about the processes that cause changes in the compositional variation of…”
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Trade-Offs Among Aboveground, Belowground, and Soil Organic Carbon Stocks Along Altitudinal Gradients in Andean Tropical Montane Forests by de la Cruz-Amo, Lydia, Bañares-de-Dios, Guillermo, Cala, Victoria, Granzow-de la Cerda, Íñigo, Espinosa, Carlos I, Ledo, Alicia, Salinas, Norma, Macía, Manuel J, Cayuela, Luis

“…Tropical montane forests (TMFs) play an important role as a carbon reservoir at a global scale. However, there is a lack of a comprehensive understanding on…”
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Climate reverses directionality in the richness–abundance relationship across the World’s main forest biomes by Madrigal-González, Jaime, Calatayud, Joaquín, Ballesteros-Cánovas, Juan A., Escudero, Adrián, Cayuela, Luis, Rueda, Marta, Ruiz-Benito, Paloma, Herrero, Asier, Aponte, Cristina, Sagardia, Rodrigo, Plumptre, Andrew J., Dupire, Sylvain, Espinosa, Carlos I., Tutubalina, Olga, Myint, Moe, Pataro, Luciano, López-Sáez, Jerome, Macía, Manuel J., Abegg, Meinrad, Zavala, Miguel A., Quesada-Román, Adolfo, Vega-Araya, Mauricio, Golubeva, Elena, Timokhina, Yuliya, Stoffel, Markus

“…More tree species can increase the carbon storage capacity of forests (here referred to as the more species hypothesis) through increased tree productivity and…”
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The role of niche overlap, environmental heterogeneity, landscape roughness and productivity in shaping species abundance distributions along the Amazon-Andes gradient by Arellano, Gabriel, Umaña, María N., Macía, Manuel J., Loza, M. Isabel, Fuentes, Alfredo, Cala, Victoria, Jørgensen, Peter M.

“…Aim: Statistical and ecological mechanisms shape species abundance distributions (SADs). A lack of correlation between ecological gradients and SAD shape would…”
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Palm Uses in Northwestern South America: A Quantitative Review by Macía, Manuel J, Armesilla, Pedro J, Cámara-Leret, Rodrigo, Paniagua-Zambrana, Narel, Villalba, Soraya, Balslev, Henrik, Pardo-de-Santayana, Manuel

“…A thorough review concerning palm uses in tropical rainforests of north-western South America was carried out to understand patterns of palm use throughout…”
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Disentangling environmental and spatial processes of community assembly in tropical forests from local to regional scales by Arellano, Gabriel, Tello, J. Sebastián, Jørgensen, Peter M, Fuentes, Alfredo F, Loza, M. Isabel, Torrez, Vania, Macía, Manuel J

“…Understanding patterns and mechanisms of variation in the compositional structure of communities across spatial scales is one of the fundamental challenges in…”
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The socioeconomic context of the use of Euterpe precatoria Mart. and E. oleracea Mart. in Bolivia and Peru by Paniagua-Zambrana, Narel, Bussmann, Rainer W, Macía, Manuel J

“…Traditional knowledge (TK) has enabled communities to adapt to changes in life conditions over centuries. However, this local context is being dramatically…”
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