Area, isolation and climate explain the diversity of mammals on islands worldwide
Barreto et al. (2021) – Proceedings B Insular biodiversity is expected to be regulated differently than continental biota, but their determinants remain to be quantified at a global scale. We…
Turnover-driven loss of forest-dependent species changes avian species richness, functional diversity, and community composition in Andean forest fragments
Jones et al. (2021) – Global Ecology and Conservation Andean forests, a hotspot of biodiversity, have suffered extensive fragmentation, yet we have little understanding of how this process has affected…
Spatial variation in direct and indirect effects of climate and productivity on species richness of terrestrial tetrapods
Barreto et al. (2021) – Global Ecology and Biogeography We aimed to dissect the spatial variation of the direct and indirect effects of climate and productivity on the global species…
The footprint of evolution in seed dispersal interactions
Bello & Barreto (2021) The evolutionary stability of fruit-eating birds is linked to their role in dispersing seeds A commentary on Burin, Guimarães Jr. & Quental (2021) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi8160
Quantitative genetics of extreme insular dwarfing: The case of red deer on Jersey
Diniz-Filho et al. (2021) – Journal of Biogeography The Island Rule—that is, the tendency for body size to decrease in large mammals and increase in small mammals on islands has…
Environmental niche and functional role similarity between invasive and native palms in the Atlantic Forest
Bello et al. (2020) – Biological Invasions Invasive species can significantly affect native species when their niches are similar. Ecological and morphological similarities between the invasive Australian palm, Archontophoenix cunninghamiana,…
Environmental factors explain the spatial mismatches between species richness and phylogenetic diversity of terrestrial mammals
Barreto, Graham & Rangel (2019) – Global Ecology and Biogeography We explored the spatial variation of the relationships between species richness (SR), phylogenetic diversity (PD) and environmental factors to infer…
PALEO-PGEM v1.0: a statistical emulator of Pliocene–Pleistocene climate
Holden et al. (2019) – Geoscientific Model Development We describe the development of the “Paleoclimate PLASIM-GENIE (Planet Simulator–Grid-Enabled Integrated Earth system model) emulator” PALEO-PGEM and its application to derive a…
Drivers of geographic patterns of North American language diversity
Coelho et al. (2019) – Proceedings B Although many hypotheses have been proposed to explain why humans speak so many languages and why languages are unevenly distributed across the globe,…
Canopy height explains species richness in the largest clade of Neotropical lianas
Meyer et al. (2019) – Global Ecology and Biogeography Tall and structurally complex forests can provide ample habitat and niche space for climbing plants, supporting high liana species richness. We…
Effects of neutrality and productivity on mammal richness and evolutionary history in Australia
Coelho et al. (2018) – Ecography Explaining how heterogeneous spatial patterns of species diversity emerge is one of the most fascinating questions of biogeography. One of the great challenges is…
Evolution of anuran foam nest: trait conservatism and lineage diversification
Pereira et al. (2017) – Biological Journal of the Linnean Society Key innovations are organismal traits that trigger adaptive radiation and lineage diversification. The wide range of anurans’ reproductive strategies…