Publications

Environmental gradients consist of sequential changes in the physical and structural character- istics of a region. These allow us to … Continue reading >Combining functional traits and phylogeny to disentangling Amazonian butterfly assemblages on anthropogenic gradients

Questions: What is the relative influence of: (i) traits related to dispersal (seed size) and growth (specific leaf area), and; … Continue reading >Mass effects explain sapling community assembly in Araucaria mixed forest metacommunities

Livestock is promoting the global collapse of mammal populations. The discovery of the best management practices that reconcile conservation with … Continue reading >Rodent occupancy in grassland paddocks subjected to different grazing intensities in South Brazil

Microrganisms such as cyanobacteria have been often considered as exhibiting wide distribution mainly driven by environmental heterogeneity. Recently, however, new … Continue reading >Everything is not everywhere: a tale on the biogeography of cyanobacteria

Abstract Pardiñas, Valenzuela, and Salazar-Bravo (2017) are concerned that eventual differences in species mean body masses and in the phylogenetic … Continue reading >Geographical patterns of body mass distribution are robust even when inserting uncertainty in average estimates of species body mass