Animal migration has been the subject of intensive research for more than a century, but
most research has focused on long‐distance rather than short‐distance migration. Altitudinal …

Altitudinal migration is the seasonal altitudinal movement of birds from breeding areas to
non‐breeding or wintering areas at different elevations. Although this type of migration is …

Ecological communities are organized in complex ecological networks. Trait‐based
analyses of the structure of these networks in highly diversified species assemblages are …

Second growth has replaced lowland forest in many parts of the Neotropics, providing
valuable habitat for many resident and migrant bird species. Given the prevalence of such …

Aim The biodiversity of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera) along a complete tropical elevational
gradient was studied for the first time. The patterns are described, and the role of geometric …

Summary 1 Understanding how species in a diverse regional pool are spatially distributed
with respect to habitat types is a longstanding problem in ecology. Tropical species are …

Although the migration ecology of birds breeding in the Neotropics is still poorly studied
relative to that of their counterparts breeding at north-temperate latitudes, studies conducted …

Sixteen years ago, Colwell et al.(2008: Global warming, elevational range shifts, and
lowland biotic attrition in the wet tropics. Science, 322, 258) affirmed predictions that climate …

Background Understanding diversity patterns and the mechanisms underlying those
patterns along elevational gradients is critically important for conservation efforts in montane …

A monotonic decline in species richness with increasing elevation has often been
considered a general pattern, but recent evidence suggests that the dominant pattern is …