Upgrading protected areas to conserve wild biodiversity

RM Pringle - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
International agreements mandate the expansion of Earth's protected-area network as a
bulwark against the continued extinction of wild populations, species, and ecosystems. Yet …

Trait‐based ecology of terrestrial arthropods

MKL Wong, B Guénard, OT Lewis - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In focusing on how organisms' generalizable functional properties (traits) interact
mechanistically with environments across spatial scales and levels of biological …

Mine land rehabilitation: Modern ecological approaches for more sustainable mining

M Gastauer, JR Silva, CFC Junior, SJ Ramos… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
Despite the urgent demand for sustainable mining, the revegetation and rehabilitation of
areas degraded by mining activities remain challenging. Uncertainties about species …

To us insectometers, it is clear that insect decline in our Costa Rican tropics is real, so let's be kind to the survivors

DH Janzen, W Hallwachs - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
We have been field observers of tropical insects on four continents and, since 1978, intense
observers of caterpillars, their parasites, and their associates in the 1,260 km2 of dry, cloud …

For common community phylogenetic analyses, go ahead and use synthesis phylogenies

D Li, L Trotta, HE Marx, JM Allen, M Sun, DE Soltis… - Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Should we build our own phylogenetic trees based on gene sequence data, or can we
simply use available synthesis phylogenies? This is a fundamental question that any study …

Contrasting species and functional beta diversity in montane ant assemblages

TR Bishop, MP Robertson… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Beta diversity describes the variation in species composition between sites and can be
used to infer why different species occupy different parts of the globe. It can be viewed in a …

Island area, not isolation, drives taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of ants on land‐bridge islands

Y Zhao, RR Dunn, H Zhou, X Si… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To explore the impact of island area and isolation on multiple dimensions of ant
biodiversity (taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity) and the underlying processes …

Biotic interactions are the dominant drivers of phylogenetic and functional structure in bird communities along a tropical elevational gradient

AJ Boyce, S Shakya, FH Sheldon, RG Moyle… - The Auk, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Understanding how biotic and abiotic interactions influence community assembly and
composition is a fundamental goal in community ecology. Addressing this issue is …

The truncated bell: an enigmatic but pervasive elevational diversity pattern in Middle American ants

JT Longino, MG Branstetter - Ecography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Studies on elevation gradients in Panama and Costa Rica have shown that leaf‐litter ants
exhibit a mid‐elevation peak in diversity. This diversity pattern has been observed in other …

Community assemblage of free-living diazotrophs along the elevational gradient of Mount Gongga

Y Wang, C Li, Z Shen, J Rui, D **, J Li, X Li - Soil Ecology Letters, 2019 - Springer
Mountain systems are unique for studying the responses of species distribution and diversity
to environmental changes along elevational gradients. It is well known that free-living …