Stingless bee (Apidae: Apinae: Meliponini) ecology

DW Roubik - Annual Review of Entomology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Stingless bees form perennial colonies of honey-making insects. The> 600 species of
stingless bees, mainly Neotropical, live throughout tropical latitudes. Foragers influence …

Forest fragmentation impacts the seasonality of Amazonian evergreen canopies

MH Nunes, JLC Camargo, G Vincent, K Calders… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Predictions of the magnitude and timing of leaf phenology in Amazonian forests remain
highly controversial. Here, we use terrestrial LiDAR surveys every two weeks spanning wet …

Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities

DLM Cooper, SL Lewis, MJP Sullivan, PI Prado… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
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 …

Giants of the Amazon: How does environmental variation drive the diversity patterns of large trees?

RB de Lima, EB Görgens, DAS da Silva… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
For more than three decades, major efforts in sampling and analyzing tree diversity in South
America have focused almost exclusively on trees with stems of at least 10 and 2.5 cm …

Land use and land cover in tropical forest: Global research

A Velastegui-Montoya, N Montalván-Burbano… - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tropical ecosystems play an important role in the environment. They provide multiple
ecosystem services, such as carbon capture and sequestration, food supply, and climate …

Forest tree species distribution for Europe 2000–2020: map** potential and realized distributions using spatiotemporal machine learning

C Bonannella, T Hengl, J Heisig, L Parente, MN Wright… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
This article describes a data-driven framework based on spatiotemporal machine learning to
produce distribution maps for 16 tree species (Abies alba Mill., Castanea sativa Mill …

Dispersal from Africa to the Neotropics was followed by multiple transitions across Neotropical biomes facilitated by frugivores

JC Lopes, LHM Fonseca, DM Johnson… - Annals of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aim Plant disjunctions have fascinated biogeographers and
ecologists for a long time. We use tribe Bocageeae (Annonaceae), a predominantly …

Long‐term fire and vegetation change in northwestern Amazonia

BM Hei**k, QA Mattijs, R Valencia, AL Philip… - Biotropica, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Amazonian forest plots are used to quantify biodiversity and carbon sequestration, and
provide the foundation for much of what is known about tropical ecology. Many plots are …

Peatland core domain sets: building consensus on what should be measured in research and monitoring

MS Reed, DM Young, NG Taylor, R Andersen… - Mires and …, 2022 - pure.uhi.ac.uk
It is often difficult to compile and synthesise evidence across multiple studies to inform policy
and practice because different outcomes have been measured in different ways or datasets …

Natural regeneration in tropical forests along a disturbance gradient in South-East Cameroon

D Zébazé, A Gorel, JF Gillet, F Houngbégnon… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The dynamics of tropical forests are highly dependent on the forest understorey.
Understanding its diversity and composition is essential to ensure sustainable management …