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Open AccessConsistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities
Trees structure the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmenta...
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Strong spatial and temporal limitations in seed arrival as complementary mechanisms for species coexistence in a tropical Atlantic coastal forest
Spatial limitation in seed arrival is pervasive among species in tropical forests and has been considered an important mechanism for species coexistence. Temporal limitation, when associated to a non-synchrono...
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Open AccessCo-occurrences of tropical trees in eastern South America: disentangling abiotic and biotic forces
Species co-occurrences in local communities can arise independent or dependent on species’ niches. However, the role of niche-dependent processes has not been thoroughly deciphered when generalized to biogeogr...
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Open AccessThe erosion of biodiversity and biomass in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot
Tropical forests are being deforested worldwide, and the remaining fragments are suffering from biomass and biodiversity erosion. Quantifying this erosion is challenging because ground data on tropical biodive...
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Open AccessBiased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora
Amazonian forests are extraordinarily diverse, but the estimated species richness is very much debated. Here, we apply an ensemble of parametric estimators and a novel technique that includes conspecific spati...
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How much do we know about the endangered Atlantic Forest? Reviewing nearly 70 years of information on tree community surveys
The structure of the Atlantic Forest (AF) has been studied for almost 70 years. However, the related existing knowledge is spread over hundreds of documents, many of them unpublished and/or difficult to access...
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The importance of small scales to the fruit-feeding butterfly assemblages in a fragmented landscape
Nowadays 37% of Earth’s ice-free land is composed by fragments of natural habitats settled in anthropogenic biomes. Therefore, we have to improve our knowledge about distribution of organisms in remnants and t...
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Phytophagous insect fauna tracks host plant responses to exotic grass invasion
The high dependence of herbivorous insects on their host plants implies that plant invaders can affect these insects directly, by not providing a suitable habitat, or indirectly, by altering host plant availab...
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Invasive grasses and native Asteraceae in the Brazilian Cerrado
Anthropogenic disturbances frequently modify natural disturbance regimes and foster the invasion and spread of nonindigenous species. However, there is some dispute about whether disturbance events or invasive...
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Geographical distribution of Eupatorieae (Asteraceae) in South-eastern and South Brazilian Mountain Ranges
This study deals with the geographical distribution of Eupatorieae species in South-eastern and Southern Brazilian mountain ranges, with special emphasis on the Mantiqueira range (Serra da Mantiqueira). In the...
