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Articles focusing on exploratory analysis and/or hypothesis tests based on empirical datasets. cyanobacteria, plants (living or not anymore – aka fossils), butterflies, ants, mammals, birds, anurans, snakes, molluscs, they are all here!

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Phylogenetic and functional structure of climbing plant assemblages in woody patches advancing over Campos grassland

Abstract Question Analysing taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional species distribution across a metacommunity allows understanding of how landscape dynamics may influence … Continue reading >Phylogenetic and functional structure of climbing plant assemblages in woody patches advancing over Campos grassland

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Influences of sampling effort on detected patterns and structuring processes of a Neotropical plant-hummingbird network

Summary Virtually all empirical ecological interaction networks to some extent suffer from undersampling. However, how limitations imposed by sampling incompleteness … Continue reading >Influences of sampling effort on detected patterns and structuring processes of a Neotropical plant-hummingbird network

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Phylogenetic composition and structure of tree communities shed light on historical processes influencing tropical rainforest diversity

Abstract The Neotropics, Afrotropics and Madagascar have different histories which have influenced their respective patterns of diversity. Based on current … Continue reading >Phylogenetic composition and structure of tree communities shed light on historical processes influencing tropical rainforest diversity

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Geographical variation of body size in sigmodontine rodents depends on both environment and phylogenetic composition of communities

Abstract Aim: Body size variation in animal assemblages is a widely addressed pattern in biogeographical studies, and is affected by both … Continue reading >Geographical variation of body size in sigmodontine rodents depends on both environment and phylogenetic composition of communities

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Recurrent patterns of phylogenetic habitat filtering in woody plant communities across phytogeographically distinct grassland-forest ecotones

Abstract The phylogenetic relationship among species may influence the mechanisms controlling local community assembly in ecological time. We analyzed the … Continue reading >Recurrent patterns of phylogenetic habitat filtering in woody plant communities across phytogeographically distinct grassland-forest ecotones

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Positive association between Bromelia balansae (Bromeliaceae) and tree seedlings on rocky outcrops of Atlantic forest

Abstract Plant facilitation can improve the diversity of plant communities in several ecosystems, especially in stressful environments. The establishment of … Continue reading >Positive association between Bromelia balansae (Bromeliaceae) and tree seedlings on rocky outcrops of Atlantic forest