Categories: Original article, Publications – Posted on 12 de August de 201725 de June de 2020 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
Categories: Methodological, Publications – Posted on 19 de October de 201625 de June de 2020 Evolutionary models and phylogenetic signal assessment via Mantel test Abstract Phylogenetically closely related species tend to be more similar to each other than to more distantly related ones, a … Continue reading >Evolutionary models and phylogenetic signal assessment via Mantel test
Categories: Original article, Publications – Posted on 1 de September de 201625 de June de 2020 Insect herbivory fluctuations through geological time Abstract Arthropods and land plants are the major macroscopic sources of biodiversity on the planet. Knowledge of the organization … Continue reading >Insect herbivory fluctuations through geological time
Categories: Original article, Publications – Posted on 15 de July de 201625 de June de 2020 Forests, shrublands and grasslands in southern Brazil are neglected and have specific needs for their conservation Read more
Categories: Original article, Publications – Posted on 10 de May de 201625 de June de 2020 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
Categories: Original article, Publications – Posted on 8 de April de 201625 de June de 2020 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
Categories: Methodological, Publications, Selected article – Posted on 10 de March de 201625 de June de 2020 Dissecting phylogenetic fuzzy weighting: theory and application in metacommunity phylogenetics Summary Metacommunity phylogenetics aims at evaluating environmental and/or historical factors driving clade distribution. Phylogenetic fuzzy weighting (PFW) describes clade … Continue reading >Dissecting phylogenetic fuzzy weighting: theory and application in metacommunity phylogenetics
Categories: Original article, Publications – Posted on 1 de February de 201625 de June de 2020 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
Categories: Original article, Publications – Posted on 28 de September de 201525 de June de 2020 A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities Abstract Recent studies have shown that accounting for intraspecific trait variation (ITV) may better address major questions in community ecology. … Continue reading >A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities
Categories: Original article, Publications – Posted on 18 de May de 201525 de June de 2020 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