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Short‐Term Effects of El Niño (2023–2024 ENSO) Drought on Predation Patterns of Lepidopteran Prey in an Urban‐Agricultural Ecosystems	26
Soil Enzyme Stoichiometry Indicates the Alleviation of Microbial Carbon and Nutrient Limitations After Forest Restoration in Rubber Monocultures, Southwest China	24
Taxonomic and functional avian diversity vary with cattle management practices in humid Chaco forests of Argentina	18
Seed dispersal of Madagascar's iconic baobab species, Adansonia grandidieri	18
Habitat Conditions and Neighborhood Interactions Drive the Phylogenetic Structure of Seedling Assemblages in a Tropical Forest Mosaic	18
Use of the Alternative Stable States Concept in Tropical Terrestrial Ecosystem Research—A Systematic Literature Review	18
Spatiotemporal patterns of trophic niche variation within and among species of tropical coastal fishes	17
Citizen science and color pattern analysis indicate unreported Batesian mimicry between Neotropical snakes	17
Fallen trees as “natural bridges” for the movement of mammals crossing rivers	16
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2023 Julie S Denslow & Peter Ashton Prizes for the outstanding articles published in Biotropica	16
Vertebrate seed predation can limit recruitment of later‐successional species in tropical forest restoration	16
Litter‐trapping tank bromeliads in five different forests: Carbon and nutrient pools and fluxes	15
Landscape heterogeneity increases survival of Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis juveniles in a frequently burned, humid savanna	15
Phenotypic, Floristic, and Anthropogenic Drivers of the Pollen Niche of Amazonian Stingless Bees	13
Weak edge effects on trees in Bornean rainforest remnants bordering oil palm	13
Land‐use changes impact responses of termite functional and taxonomic diversity in the Colombian Amazon	13
Patterns of Leaf, Flower, and Fruit Phenology and Environmental Relationships in a Seasonal Tropical Forest in the Indian Eastern Himalaya	12
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Moderate anthropogenic impacts alter temporal niche without affecting spatial distribution of ocelots in the Amazon rainforest	12
Impact of human foraging on tree diversity, composition, and abundance in a tropical rainforest	12
Beans with bugs: Covert carnivory and infested seed selection by the red‐nosed cuxiú monkey	12
Impacts of large dams on Amazonian floodplain bird communities	12

Abundance variations within feeding guilds reveal ecological mechanisms behind avian species richness pattern along the elevational gradient of Mount Cameroon	12
Bioacoustic Assessment of Mangrove Health: Influence of Habitat Characteristics on Bird Richness	12
Forest‐Associated Understorey Birds Persist in Agroforestry Orchards Within Tropical Rubber and Oil Palm Landscapes	12
Escape behavior lateralization of pointed‐belly frog (Leptodactylus podicipinus) (Anura, Leptodactylidae) in the southern Pantanal	12
2025 Julie S. Denslow and Peter Ashton Prizes for the Outstanding Articles Published in Biotropica	11
Virtual special issue: Insights from a landscape ecological perspective for tropical biology and conservation	11
Migration Patterns of Epiphyllous Bryophyte Metapopulations in Amazonian Fragmented Landscape Inferred From Census and Genomic Data	11
Decadienal afforestation and risks to montane grassland amphibians in the Udzungwa Plateau, Tanzania	11
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Non‐floral scent sources of orchid bees: Observations and significance	11
Do experimental drought stress and species' drought sensitivity influence herbivory in tropical tree seedlings?	11
Roost site use by Great (Buceros bicornis) and Wreathed (Rhyticeros undulatus) Hornbill and its implications for seed dispersal	11
Geophagy by a large herbivore (capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) driven by a human sodium supply	11
Habitat differences in seed‐dispersing vertebrates indicate dispersal limitation in tropical bracken‐dominated deforested areas	11
Forest resistance to drought in a humid tropical dipterocarp forest in the Western Ghats of India	10
Knowledge gaps and opportunities for conservation with orchid collectors in Vietnam	10
Proximate cues of flowering in a subtropical rain forest	10
Niche expansion of capuchin monkeys to forest floor on guild‐reduced islands increases interspecific spatio‐temporal overlap	10
Strangler Figs and Their Spirits: How Indigenous Beliefs and Practices Influence an Iban Landscape, West Kalimantan, Indonesia	9
Incomplete recovery of tree community composition and rare species after 120 years of tropical forest succession in Panama	9
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Lepidoptera research in Puerto Rico: Reconnecting with historical legacies to guide future priorities	9
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2025 ATBC Honorary Fellows	9
Where Art Thou? Urbanization Decreases Attacks on Sentinel Prey by Arthropods, but Not Birds, in a Tropical City	9
Consuming and consumed: Biotic interactions of African mistletoes across different trophic levels	9
Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) at risk in western Mexico	9
Isolated Trees in a Fragmented Tropical Landscape: A View Through the Soil Seed Bank	9
Directed vertebrate‐mediated seed dispersal of a fleshy‐fruited amaryllid in a heterogenous habitat	9
Height–diameter allometry for a dominant palm to improve understanding of carbon and forest dynamics in forests of Puerto Rico	9
ATBC 2022 Student and Early Career Awards	8
Cattle Disperse Seeds and Aquatic Plants in Neotropical Wetlands	8
Predictive mapping of tree species assemblages in an African montane rainforest	8
Effects of Vegetation Density on the Diversity of Lizards in an Area of the Brazilian Cerrado	8
Challenges in the Early Ontogeny of a Mutualistic Plant: Resource Availability and Plant Defense in Juvenile Cecropia Ant‐Plants	8
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Role of Rivers as Geographical Barriers in Shaping Molecular Divergence of Neotropical Primates	8
Seeding success: Integrating seed dispersal networks in tropical forest restoration	8
Cactus height increases the modularity of a plant–frugivore network in the Caatinga dry forest	8
Native forest and proximity to humans are stronger drivers of Brazilian cottontail habitat use than invasive European hare	7
Coastal dry tropical forests in Florida and the Caribbean in peril: A review	7
Epizoochorous seed dispersal by an Afroalpine savanna primate	7
Impact of human disturbance on the abundance of non‐breeding shorebirds in a subtropical wetland	7
Drivers of jaguar (Panthera onca) and puma (Puma concolor) predation on endangered primates within a transformed landscape in southern Mexico	7
Effects of pasture‐burning management on anuran communities in subtropical Brazilian grasslands	7
More the merrier? influence of mango orchards on the composition of the reptile communities of the lateritic plateaus, Maharashtra, India	7
Clades That Frequently Accumulate Metals Do Not Have Low Abundance in the Tropical Forests of Sulawesi, Indonesia	7
Radiocarbon estimates of age and growth for a dominant Amazon palm species	7
An unprecedented and unprovoked attack by a free‐ranging ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) in the Peruvian Amazon	7

How can academics contribute to biodiversity science?	7
Thomas E. Lovejoy III (1941–2021)—An individual for all times and places, especially in the tropics	7
The Rapid Recovery of a Caatinga Dry Forest is Mediated by Disturbance‐Adapted Species	7
Large Yearly Fluctuations in Congregation Sizes of Migratory Danainae Butterflies in the Western Ghats, India	7
Rapoport's rule explains the range size distribution of butterflies along the Eastern Himalayan elevation gradient	7
Associations of bird and bat species richness with temperature and remote sensing‐based vegetation structure on a tropical mountain	7
Variations in the reproductive cycle of Bornean montane tree species along elevational gradients on ultrabasic and non‐ultrabasic soils	7
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Changing the main course: strong bat visitation to the ornithophilous mistletoe Psittacanthus robustus (Loranthaceae) in a Neotropical savanna	7
Distribution, social organization, and management of Semnopithecus johnii: An umbrella species of fragmented landscape of the Western Ghats	7
A predominantly diurnal tropical mammal increases nocturnality in response to high temperatures	7
Lost in Amazon: Evidencing the southern extension of the geographic distribution of Linné's two‐toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus)	7
Exploratory Movements and Natal Dispersal of Gray Hawks (Buteo plagiatus) in South Texas, USA	6
A universal pharmacy: Possible self‐medication using tree balsam by multiple Atlantic Forest mammals	6
Population Variability and Apparent Recent Decline of River Birds in the Indian Himalaya	6
Genetic inference of orchid population dynamics on different‐aged lava flows in Costa Rica	6
ATBC 2025 Student and Early Career Awards	6
Degradation and Fragmentation Effects on Structural Complexity in West‐African Forest Patches	6
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Regional variation in responses of a vulnerable bird species to land‐use and climate change	6
2023 ATBC Honorary Fellows	6
Anthropogenic landscape features affect the ground habitat use of Penelope superciliaris (Cracidae), a large seed disperser bird in southeastern Brazil	6
Seedling Trait Variation and Functional Space Occupation Responses to Topographic Water Shifts in A Tropical Dry Forest	6
Inga and Lianas Are Key Players in the Tropical Nitrogen Cycle of Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Insights From Linking Rates of Nitrogen Fixation With DNA Barcoding Root Identification	6
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Variation of seasonal litterfall in subtropical montane cloud forests to typhoon severity and environmental factors	6
Correction to “Hydraulic architecture explains species moisture dependency but not mortality rates across a tropical rainfall gradient”	6
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Biotropica Announces a New Editor‐In‐Chief	6
Distance sampling from curving transects in dense tropical forests	6
Contribution of small nocturnal lemurs to seed dispersal in Madagascar: A review	5
Seasonal plasticity in sympatric Bicyclus butterflies in a tropical forest where temperature does not predict rainfall	5
The eco‐evolutionary history of Madagascar presents unique challenges to tropical forest restoration	5
Seabird presence and seasonality influence nutrient dynamics of atoll habitats	5
Experimental Determination of Labidus coecus Army Ant Diet: Novel Evidence for a Feeding Strategy	5
Population structure and dynamics, breeding activity and phenology of the blue‐sided treefrog (Agalychnis annae)	5
The Influence of Litter Diversity on Leaf Breakdown and the Colonization of Decomposer Communities in Subtropical Highland Grassland Streams	5
Recruitment limitation in three large‐seeded plant species in a tropical moist forest	5
Chronic browsing by an introduced mammalian herbivore in a tropical island alters species composition and functional traits of forest understory plant communities	5
Factors limiting plant recruitment in a tropical Afromontane Forest	5
Evidence for hawkmoth pollination in the chiropterophilous African baobab (Adansonia digitata)	5
Mangrove Pollinator Functional Diversity Decreases With Patch Size and Landscape Anthropization	5
Direct and indirect plant defenses reduce damage by a generalist but not by a specialist pod borer	5
Ants mediate community composition of root‐associated fungi in an ant‐plant mutualism	5
Changes in tropical terrestrial vertebrate communities along two anthropogenic gradients: Forest degradation and accessibility	5
Anthropogenic extinctions explain most size and trophic mismatches between large mammalian primary consumers from Amazonian and African rainforests	5
Population Estimate and Spatial Distribution of Capybaras in Lake Paranoá, Brasília, Brazil	5
Supporting inclusive scientific communities: Insights from the ATBC society survey	5
Partial recovery of primary rainforest bird communities in Amazonian secondary forests	5
Chytrid prevalence and infection intensity in treefrogs from three environments with different degrees of conservation in Mexico	5
Increasing fire severity alters the species composition and decreases richness of seeds potentially dispersed by small mammals	5
One ant's trash is another ant's treasure: Army ant middens provide resources for diverse ant assemblages	5
Short flowers for long tongues: Functional specialization in a nocturnal pollination network of an asclepiad in long‐tongued hawkmoths	5
Biotropica's first open call for editorial service	5
A jumping terrestrial leech from Madagascar	5
Seed fate in ant‐mediated dispersal: Seed dispersal effectiveness in the Ectatomma ruidum (Formicidae)—Zanthoxylum ekmanii (Rutaceae) system	4
Predation on artificial caterpillars following understorey fires in human‐modified Amazonian forests	4
Impoverished woody seedling assemblages and the regeneration of Caatinga dry forest in a human‐modified landscape	4
The legacy of forest logging on organic matter inputs and storage in tropical streams	4
Chimpanzees as ecosystem service providers: Seed dispersal of an economically important plant resource	4
Integrating effects of neighbor interactions for pollination and abiotic resources on coffee yield in a multi‐strata agroforest	4
Young voices and visions for tropical restoration science in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration	4
Physiological and Growth Responses of Tropical Dry Forest Tree Seedlings to Water and Nutrient Additions: Comparisons Between Nitrogen Fixers and Non‐Fixers	4
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Spatial density patterns of herbivore response to seasonal dynamics in the tropical deciduous forest of central India	4
Foliar Pathogen Incidence on Woody Seedlings Across a Tropical Forest Chronosequence	4
Sampling local ant diversities and the importance of trait analyses	4
Agriculturally developed areas reduce genetic connectivity for a keystone Neotropical ungulate	4
Snow damage in a Himalayan forest maintains the dominance of evergreen oaks	4
Limited seed dispersal shapes fine‐scale spatial genetic structure in a Neotropical dioecious large‐seeded palm	4
Coarse woody debris density and carbon concentration by decay classes in mixed montane wet tropical forests	4
Neo‐tropical felid activity patterns in relation to potential prey and intraguild competitors in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico	4
Predatory Spiders Limit Bromeliad‐Dwelling Frog Assemblages in the Absence of Habitat Effects	4
Habitat quality and edge area of fragments determine insect diversity in a heavily used landscape: Implications for forest landscape restoration	4
When are buttresses and stilt roots necessary for a tree in terra‐firme Amazonian forests?	4
Radial and vertical variation of wood nutrients in Bornean tropical forest trees	4
Value of human‐modified forests for the conservation of canopy epiphytes	4
Size and crown shape predict reproductive maturity of Carapa guianensis in upland and floodplain forests in the northeastern Amazon	4
Leaf Size and Shape Interact to Control Flammability: An Experiment With Artificial Leaves Cut From the Large‐Leaved Species Sapranthus palanga	4

When Raptors Are Away, Opossums Will Play: Woolly Opossums as Carrion Feeders in Harpy Eagle Nests	4
Precipitation and Temperature‐Dependent Locomotor Performance Drive the Abundance of a Neotropical Lizard	3
Microclimate and seed bank under Pithecellobium keyense (Fabaceae) in a coastal scrubland	3
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Regionally unique ant assemblages associated with community‐based conservation in northwestern Ghana	3
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Effects of forest fragmentation on the weight of understory birds at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project in Amazonia	3
Seed removal, seed dispersers, and the allocation of tissues in Myrtaceae seeds	3
Recolonizing native wildlife facilitates exotic plant invasion into Singapore's rain forests	3
The effect of flight efficiency on gap‐crossing ability in Amazonian forest birds	3
Pollination of Chamaepentas nobilis (Rubiaceae) by long‐proboscid hawkmoths in south‐central Africa: Trait mismatching and floral scent chemistry	3
120 Years of “Lemurology”: A Qualitative Review of What We Have Learned	3
Succession and seasonality drive tropical butterfly assembly after an extreme hurricane	3
Periodic Mangrove Growth Induced by Water Salinity Fluctuations Under Tropical Monsoon Climate, Thailand	3
Root vascular anatomy predicts maximum growth rates in savanna trees and grasses	3
High Field Pivotal Temperature of Olive Ridley Sea Turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea)	3
Epiphytic ant‐plant obtains nitrogen from both native and invasive ant inhabitants	3
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Latitudinal cline of flowering and fruiting phenology in Fagaceae in Asia	3
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Hurricane‐associated population decrease in a critically endangered long‐lived reptile	3
Effects of Landscape Characteristics on Abundance of Giant Anteaters in Intensively Farmed Areas	3
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Evolutionary history and precipitation seasonality shape niche overlap in Neotropical bat–plant pollination networks	3
Can matrix structure affect animal navigation between fragments? A dispersal experiment using release platforms	3
Sacred groves of Central India: Diversity status, carbon storage, and conservation strategies	3
My cave, my rules: Specialization, modularity, and topology of bat‐fly interactions in hot and cold caves from eastern South America	3
Fruit tree phenology in traditionally managed versus protected forests in Malaysian Borneo	3
Wildlife predation by dogs in Madagascar	3
Thin corridors limit wildlife: Variance of tropical carnivore distribution and habitat use in a critical rainforest corridor	3
Heads nods and boat bobs: Behavior of Iguana iguana is affected by environment and boat traffic in riparian tropical forest	3
Quantifying Patterns of Lightning‐Caused Canopy Disturbances via Integration of Drone Imagery and Field Surveys	3
Long‐term comparison of the orchid bee community in the tropical dry forest of Costa Rica	3
Effect of Local and Landscape Variables on Bird Communities in Forest‐Agricultural Mosaics in Northeast Luzon, Philippines	3
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Two observations of rescue behavior in wild Asian elephants	3
Frugivory by Three Species of Lizards in Madagascar: Implication for Their Ecological Roles as Seed Dispersers	3
Logging leaves a fingerprint on the number, size, spatial configuration and geometry of tropical forest canopy gaps	3
Endemic island plant–herbivore interactions: Kamehameha butterfly (Nymphalidae) and Hawaiian Urticaceae	3
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Evidence for acoustic niche partitioning depends on the temporal scale in two sympatric Bornean hornbill species	3
Leaf Conditions Affect the Landing Success of Fallen Tropical Ants	3
Does the stork bring home the owl? Dusky Eagle‐Owls Bubo coromandus breeding on Woolly‐necked Stork Ciconia episcopus nests	3
Quantifying the role of termite decomposition in a mesic savanna	3
Greater Landscape‐Scale Forest Cover and Animal‐Mediated Seed Dispersal Syndromes Associate With Faster Recovery Rates in Restoring Tropical Andean Forests	3
Rainforest Fragmentation Decreases the Robustness of Plant‐Frugivore Interaction Networks	3
Simulated Impacts of Harvesting Chamaedorea linearis and C. pinnatifrons (Arecaceae): Implications for Their Conservation	2
Interplay of environmental cues and wood density in the vegetative and reproductive phenology of seasonally dry tropical forest trees	2
Effects of forest conversion into cashew orchards on seed‐ and fruit‐animal interaction rates in West Africa	2
Do prey shape, time of day, and plant trichomes affect the predation rate on plasticine prey in tropical rainforests?	2
Litter decomposition rates across tropical montane and lowland forests are controlled foremost by climate	2
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Leaf litter weevil richness increases with elevation in a tropical–temperate transitional forest in El Cielo Biosphere Reserve, northeastern Mexico	2
Drivers affecting habitat use in Afrotropical hipposiderid and pteropodid bats	2
Anisophylly Is Associated With Climate in the Neotropical Genus Triolena (Melastomataceae)	2
Functional Diversity of Neotropical Aquatic Hyphomycetes: Insights Into Environmental Drivers	2
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The Search for Champion Lianas: The Largest Lianas on Six Continents	2
Genetic inference of orchid colonization of a Costa Rican lava flow	2
Disentangling drivers of thermal physiology: Community‐wide cold shock recovery of butterflies under natural conditions	2
Environmental variation associated with topography explains butterfly diversity along a tropical elevation gradient	2
Patterns in the genetic structure of 49 lowland rain forest tree species co‐distributed on opposite sides of the northern Andes	2
Structure and Stability of Lemur‐Tree Ecological Networks Across Primary and Secondary Forests	2
Long‐term stability of tropical forest metacommunities in Puerto Rico: Native and non‐native species	2
Long‐Term Fire and Vegetation Change at Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Peru	2
Biogeographic and evolutionary history of Crotonoideae based on pollen evidence from Indian Late Cretaceous and Paleogene sediments	2
Direct comparisons of logging and agroforestry influence on tropical mammals in Sarawak, Borneo	2
Community science enhances modelled bee distributions in a tropical Asian city	2
Variation in biodiversity and abundance of functional groups of arthropods along a tropical elevational gradient in Puerto Rico	2
Flammability in tropical savannas: Variation among growth forms and seasons in Cerrado	2
Nectar robbing effects on pollinators of a key nectar source plant (Tecoma fulva, Bignoniaceae) in a dry tropical Andean valley	2
Guests in nests: A parallel between social plants and animals?	2
Using Acoustic Monitoring to Assess Insectivorous Bat Richness and Activity in a Sub‐Tropical Savanna	2
A waterfowl seed‐dispersal network from the Neotropical region is nested and modular	2
Morphology of four common and phylogenetically distant ant species varies along disturbance and aridity gradients in the Caatinga dry forest	2
Passive acoustic data yields insights into bird vocalization behavior associated with invasive shrub removal	2
Unraveling the Taxonomic, Functional, and Phylogenetic Diversity of Lizard Assemblages in Riparian Forest Areas in the Amazon–Pantanal Ecotone	2
Limited genetic differentiation of Mycetomoellerius mikromelanos in Parque National Soberanía, Panama: Implications for queen dispersal	2
Lianas associated with continued forest biomass losses following large‐scale disturbances	2
Evolutionary diversity gradients in neotropical tree assemblages: New insights from Non‐Flooded Evergreen forests	2
DNA‐based fungal diversity in Madagascar and arrival of the ectomycorrhizal fungi to the island	2
Climate Heterogeneity Shapes the Diversity of Specialist Beetle Species Across Mountains in Malaysia	2
Low Requirement on the Nest Site Selection Influencing the Invasion Success of House Geckos	2
Structure of Epiphyte–Phorophyte Networks and Their Robustness to Species Loss in White‐Sand Ecosystems in the Amazon	2
Complex patch geometries maximize species richness at the expense of forest specialists	2
Weathering the storm: Long‐term implications on the feeding ecology and habitat use of a frugivorous lemur following a tropical cyclone	2
Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of anuran assemblages across habitats and seasons in a Neotropical savanna	2
30 years brings changes to the arthropod community of Kibale National Park, Uganda	2
Observations and description of a rare escape mechanism in a snake: Cartwheeling in Pseudorabdion longiceps (Cantor, 1847) (Squamata, Colubridea)	2
Invasive Big‐Headed Ants and Black Rats Are Dominant Arthropod Predators Across Opposing Habitats of a Degraded Oceanic Island	2
Frog call transmission in forestry monocultures: Are there drawbacks?	2
Reduction in mutualistic ant aggressive behavior upon sugar supplementation	2