Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world

M Hagen, WD Kissling, C Rasmussen… - Advances in ecological …, 2012 - Elsevier
Biodiversity is organised into complex ecological networks of interacting species in local
ecosystems, but our knowledge about the effects of habitat fragmentation on such systems …

Cerrado vegetation types determine how land use impacts ant biodiversity

ACM de Queiroz, AM Rabello, DL Braga… - Biodiversity and …, 2020 - Springer
The simplification of native habitats leads to biodiversity decline in tropical terrestrial
ecosystems. We evaluated how conversion of three types of native Cerrado vegetation …

The Atlantic Forest

MCM Marques, CEV Grelle - … Biodiversity, Threats and Opportunities of the …, 2021 - Springer
The object of curiosity and admiration of scientists and conservationists, the Brazilian
Atlantic Forest is scientifically explored in this book. Over the 23 chapters written by 149 …

Antibacterial activity of Pinus elliottii and its major compound, dehydroabietic acid, against multidrug-resistant strains

LF Leandro, MJO Cardoso… - Journal of medical …, 2014 - microbiologyresearch.org
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have emerged from the widespread use of antibiotics worldwide
and have prompted the search for new sources of antimicrobial substances. Pinus spp …

Ant taxonomic and functional diversity show differential response to plantation age in two contrasting biomes

S Santoandré, J Filloy, GA Zurita, MI Bellocq - Forest Ecology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The increasing global demand for lumber and pulp has led to the conversion of natural
habitats into monocultures of fast-growing tree plantations. The environmental filtering …

Taxonomic and functional approaches reveal different responses of ant assemblages to land-use changes

AM Rabello, CL Parr, ACM Queiroz, DL Braga… - Basic and Applied …, 2021 - Elsevier
Land-use change is well documented to cause species loss. However, our understanding of
the effects of land-use change on other aspects of biodiversity is still limited. We evaluated if …

Urban patches of dry forest as refuges for ants and carabid beetles in a neotropical overcrowded city

N Forero-Chavez, A Arenas-Clavijo, I Armbrecht… - Urban …, 2024 - Springer
Cali is the third most prominent, and one of the most crowed, Colombian cities. It still
harbours some tropical dry forest patches that can mitigate the impacts of the urban …

[HTML][HTML] Two new species of the Brachycephalus pernix group (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from the state of Paraná, southern Brazil

LF Ribeiro, DC Blackburn, EL Stanley, MR Pie… - PeerJ, 2017 - peerj.com
We describe two new species of miniaturized toadlet in the B. pernix group of
Brachycephalus (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from the Atlantic Forest of the state of Paraná …

Integration of global fossil and modern biodiversity data reveals dynamism and stasis in ant macroecological patterns

B Guénard, V Perrichot… - Journal of Biogeography, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We investigate the dynamics of ant biodiversity patterns and community structure from
the Eocene until the present. Our goal is to empirically test hypotheses regarding the …

[HTML][HTML] Ant community richness and composition across a gradient from Eucalyptus plantations to secondary Atlantic Forest

SS Suguituru, RR Silva, DR Souza, CB Munhae… - Biota …, 2011 - SciELO Brasil
Secondary forests and exotic tree plantations are expanding across tropical landscapes.
However, our current understanding of the value of these human-dominated forest …