Category: Original article

Abstract Background: We evaluated the direct and indirect influence of climate, land use, phylogenetic structure, species richness and endemism on … Continue reading >Land Use Explains the Distribution of Threatened New World Amphibians Better than Climate

Abstract Understanding how species traits evolved over time is the central question to comprehend assembly rules that govern the phylogenetic … Continue reading >Discriminating the effects of phylogenetic hypothesis, tree resolution and clade age estimates on phylogenetic signal measurements

Abstract The present study assessed the variation in bird species composition, and in the proportion of frugivorous and migratory individuals … Continue reading >The Potential Role of Migratory Birds in the Expansion of Araucaria Forest

Abstract Evidence of phylogenetic conservatism in plant ecological traits has accumulated over the past few years, suggesting an interplay between … Continue reading >Assessing spatial and environmental drivers of phylogenetic structure in Brazilian Araucaria forests

Abstract We aimed to verify if frugivory in Tyrannidae birds (tyrants flycatchers) is influenced by environmental conditions, spatial filters, phylogenetic … Continue reading >Spatial and phylogenetic structure drive frugivory in Tyrannidae birds across the range of Brazilian Araucaria forests

Abstract The vegetation in the southern Brazilian highlands is characterized by Araucaria forest and Campos grassland. Evidences indicate that Araucaria … Continue reading >Edge expansion of Araucaria forest over southern Brazilian grasslands relies on nurse plant effect

Abstract Question: Do regional differences in latitude, and local factors of disturbance and distance from mature forest, influence dispersal syndromes, … Continue reading >Causal effects of latitude, disturbance and dispersal limitation on richness in a recovering temperate, subtropical and tropical forest

Abstract Question: Are trait-convergence assembly patterns (TCAP) and/or trait-divergence assembly patterns (TDAP) of tree sapling communities related to microhabitat gradients … Continue reading >Individual-based trait analyses reveal assembly patterns in tree sapling communities

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Abstract We evaluated the functional relevance of diaspore traits related to disperser attraction (DAT) of woody plants as indicators of … Continue reading >Plant diaspore traits as indicators of mutualistic interactions in woody vegetation patches developing into a grassland-forest mosaic