Biotropica

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Human perturbations reduce dung beetle diversity and dung removal ecosystem function	53
Bats and hawkmoths form mixed modules with flowering plants in a nocturnal interaction network	28
On the floristic identity of Amazonian vegetation types	25
Detecting aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity in a tropical estuary using environmental DNA	25
Shade tree traits and microclimate modifications: Implications for pathogen management in biodiverse coffee agroforests	24
It is not just about time: Agricultural practices and surrounding forest cover affect secondary forest recovery in agricultural landscapes	22
Net benefits of a mutualism: Influence of the quality of extrafloral nectar on the colony fitness of a mutualistic ant	20
Testing the environmental prediction hypothesis for community‐wide mass flowering in South‐East Asia	19
The effect of flight efficiency on gap‐crossing ability in Amazonian forest birds	18
Spatiotemporal dynamics of the ant community in a dry forest differ by vertical strata but not by successional stage	18
Variation in leaf temperatures of tropical and subtropical trees are related to leaf thermoregulatory traits and not geographic distributions	17
Bat–flower interaction networks in Caatinga reveal generalized associations and temporal stability	17
Plant species specificity of ant–plant mutualistic interactions: Differential predation of termites by Camponotus crassus on five species of extrafloral nectaries plants	16
Exponential rise in the discovery of endemic plants underscores the need to conserve the Indian savannas	15
Impoverished woody seedling assemblages and the regeneration of Caatinga dry forest in a human‐modified landscape	15
Changing the main course: strong bat visitation to the ornithophilous mistletoe Psittacanthus robustus (Loranthaceae) in a Neotropical savanna	15
Genetic diversity and functional connectivity of a critically endangered salamander	15
Fostering local involvement for biodiversity conservation in tropical regions: Lessons from Madagascar during the COVID‐19 pandemic	15
Geography of roadkills within the Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot: Poorly known vertebrates are part of the toll	15
Long‐term monitoring of seed dispersal by Asian elephants in a Sundaland rainforest	14
A meta‐analysis of tropical land‐use change effects on the soil microbiome: Emerging patterns and knowledge gaps	14
Habitat structure mediates vulnerability to climate change through its effects on thermoregulatory behavior	14
Improved household living standards can restore dry tropical forests	14
When waterholes get busy, rare interactions thrive: Photographic evidence of a jaguar (Panthera onca) killing an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)	13
Flammability in tropical savannas: Variation among growth forms and seasons in Cerrado	13

Seasonal isotopic niche of a rodent: High between‐individual variation but no changes in individual niche width during the rich‐resource period	13
Insights into the functional ecology of páramo plants in Colombia	13
Climate change induced elevational range shifts of Himalayan tree species	12
Temporal interactions and moon illumination effect on mammals in a tropical semievergreen forest of Manas National Park, Assam, India	12
Landscape heterogeneity shapes bird phylogenetic responses at forest–matrix interfaces in Atlantic Forest, Brazil	12
Low‐intensity cattle grazing is better than cattle exclusion to drive secondary savannas toward the features of native Cerrado vegetation	12
Lost mutualisms: Seed dispersal by Sumatran rhinos, the world’s most threatened megafauna	11
Functional redundancy of Amazonian dung beetles confers community‐level resistance to primary forest disturbance	11
Arboreal monkeys facilitate foraging of terrestrial frugivores	11
Midges not only sucks, but may carry lethal pathogens to wild amphibians	11
Detecting ecological thresholds for biodiversity in tropical forests: Knowledge gaps and future directions	11
Gamma, alpha, and beta diversity of ant assemblages response to a gradient of forest cover in human‐modified landscape in Brazilian Amazon	11
Native mammals disperse the highly invasive Senna spectabilis in the Western Ghats, India	10
Landscape structure and local variables affect plant community diversity and structure in a Brazilian agricultural landscape	10
Importance of interaction rewiring in determining spatial and temporal turnover of tritrophic (Piper‐caterpillar‐parasitoid) metanetworks in the Yucatán Península, México	10
Anticipating the potential impacts of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans on Neotropical salamander diversity	10
Drought and soil nutrients effects on symbiotic nitrogen fixation in seedlings from eight Neotropical legume species	10
Long‐term fire and vegetation change in northwestern Amazonia	10
Assessing the importance of reproductive modes for the evaluation of altitudinal distribution patterns in tropical frogs	10
Sharing sound: Avian acoustic niches in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	10
The functional ecology of bat pollination in the African sausage tree Kigelia africana (Bignoniaceae)	10
Trick or treat? Pollinator attraction in Vanilla pompona (Orchidaceae)	10
Hydraulic architecture explains species moisture dependency but not mortality rates across a tropical rainfall gradient	10
Different elevational environments dictate contrasting patterns of niche evolution in NeotropicalPithecopustreefrog species	10
Biotropica announces a new paper category: Natural History Field Notes	9
Conservation implications of living in forest remnants: Inbreeding and genetic structure of the northernmost mantled howler monkeys	9
Elevation and leaf litter interact in determining the structure of ant communities on a tropical mountain	9
Community science data provide evidence for upward elevational range shifts by Eastern Himalayan birds	9
Drought and fire determine juvenile and adult woody diversity and dominance in a semi‐arid African savanna	9
Role of the Andean uplift as an asymmetrical barrier to gene flow in the neotropical leaf‐cutting ant Atta cephalotes	9
Elevational distribution of birds in an Eastern African montane environment as governed by temperature, precipitation, and habitat availability	9
Tropical wood stores substantial amounts of nutrients, but we have limited understanding why	8
Distinct leaf water potential regulation of tree species and vegetation types across the Cerrado–Amazonia transition	8
Abundance and composition of forest‐dwelling anurans in cashew plantations in a tropical semi‐evergreen forest landscape	8
Variation in trunk taper of buttressed trees within and among five lowland tropical forests	8
Litter decomposition rates across tropical montane and lowland forests are controlled foremost by climate	8
Ant diversity decreases during the dry season: A meta‐analysis of the effects of seasonality on ant richness and abundance	8
High spatial resolution mapping identifies habitat characteristics of the invasive vine Antigonon leptopus on St. Eustatius (Lesser Antilles)	8
Shade alters the growth and architecture of tropical grasses by reducing root biomass	8
Wildlife rehabilitation centers as a potential source of transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 into native wildlife of Latin America	7
Seed dispersal effectiveness by oilbirds (Steatornis caripensis) in the Southern Andes of Colombia	7
Upward shifts in elevational limits of forest and grassland for Mexican volcanoes over three decades	7
Logging leaves a fingerprint on the number, size, spatial configuration and geometry of tropical forest canopy gaps	7
30 years brings changes to the arthropod community of Kibale National Park, Uganda	7
Ecological drivers of intraspecific variation in seed dispersal services of a common neotropical palm	7
Uncovering the vertebrate scavenger guild composition and functioning in the Cerrado biodiversity hotspot	7
Impact of human disturbance on the abundance of non‐breeding shorebirds in a subtropical wetland	7
Human impacts alter the distribution of fish functional diversity in Neotropical stream system	7
Camera trapping reveals multispecies use of water‐filled tree holes by birds and mammals in a neotropical forest	7
Chronic browsing by an introduced mammalian herbivore in a tropical island alters species composition and functional traits of forest understory plant communities	7

Wood species identity alters dominant factors driving fine wood decomposition along a tree diversity gradient in subtropical plantation forests	7
Mutualistic relationships in marine angiosperms: Enhanced germination of seeds by mega‐herbivores	7
Leaf trait co‐variation and trade‐offs in gallery forest C3 and CAM epiphytes	7
Coarse woody debris density and carbon concentration by decay classes in mixed montane wet tropical forests	7
Conspecific negative density dependence of trees varies with plant functional traits and environmental conditions across scales in a 60‐ha tropical rainforest dynamics plot	7
Spatial pattern of tree diversity and impacts of ecological disturbances on forest structure in tropical deciduous forests of Central India	6
Interplay of environmental cues and wood density in the vegetative and reproductive phenology of seasonally dry tropical forest trees	6
Patterns and controls on island‐wide aboveground biomass accumulation in second‐growth forests of Puerto Rico	6
Drought‐induced reductions in plant defenses: Insights from extrafloral nectaries in the Caatinga dry forest	6
Fruit trees drive small‐scale movement of elephants in Kibale National Park, Uganda	6
Leaf litter decomposition in tropical freshwater swamp forests is slower in swamp than non‐swamp conditions	6
Active modification of cavity nest‐entrances is a common strategy in arboreal ants	6
Crickets as indicators of ecological succession in tropical systems, New Caledonia	6
Small mammals reduce distance dependence and increase seed predation risk in tropical rainforest fragments	6
Butterfly and moth communities differ in their response to habitat structure in rainforests of Mount Cameroon	6
Lizard and frog removal increases spider abundance but does not cascade to increase herbivory	6
Seed size and pubescence facilitate secondary dispersal by dung beetles	6
Influence of avocado orchard landscapes on amphibians and reptiles in the trans‐Mexican volcanic belt	6
Interactions of the influences of habitat protection, habitat heterogeneity, and periodic flooding on waterbirds of the lower Paraná River, Argentina	6
Forest fires facilitate growth of herbaceous bamboos in central Amazonia	6
Aboveground carbon stocks, woody and litter productivity along an elevational gradient in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda	6
Trophic cascades in tropical rainforests: Effects of vertebrate predator exclusion on arthropods and plants in Papua New Guinea	6
Even small forest patches increase bee visits to flowers in an oil palm plantation landscape	6
Insights into human‐wildlife coexistence through temporal activity pattern overlaps in a neglected tropical forest in India	6
The legacy of forest logging on organic matter inputs and storage in tropical streams	6
Clearcutting and selective logging have inconsistent effects on liana diversity and abundance but not on liana–tree interaction networks	6
Environmental filtering and deforestation shape frog assemblages in Amazonia: An empirical approach assessing species abundances and functional traits	6
Litter‐trapping tank bromeliads in five different forests: Carbon and nutrient pools and fluxes	6
Nonchalant neighbors: Space use and overlap of the critically endangered Elongated Tortoise	6
Out of steady state: Tracking canopy gap dynamics across Brazilian Amazon	6
Safe space in the woods: Mechanistic spatial models for predicting risks of human–bear conflicts in India	6
The role of non‐natural foods in the nutritional strategies of monkeys in a human‐modified mosaic landscape	5
Tayra (Eira barbara) landscape use as a function of cover types, forest protection, and the presence of puma and free‐ranging dogs	5
Reduced predation by arthropods and higher herbivory in burned Amazonian forests	5
Leaf‐cutting ant nests support less dense and impoverished seed assemblages in a human‐modified Caatinga dry forest	5
Weak edge effects on trees in Bornean rainforest remnants bordering oil palm	5
Species richness and assemblages of bats along a forest elevational transect in Papua New Guinea	5
Fish communities critically depend on forest subsidies in small neotropical streams with high biodiversity value	5
Vertical stratification of dung beetles in young secondary forests of Singapore	5
Rainforest conversion to smallholder cash crops leads to varying declines of beetles (Coleoptera) on Sumatra	5
Diversity patterns of epiphytic bryophytes across spatial scales: Species‐rich crowns and beta‐diverse trunks	5
Forest structure predicts species richness and functional diversity in Amazonian mixed‐species bird flocks	5
Effects of temperature and precipitation on litterfall phenology in four evergreen broad‐leaved forests of southern China	5
Can variation in seed removal patterns of Neotropical pioneer tree species be explained by local ant community composition?	5
Variation of seasonal litterfall in subtropical montane cloud forests to typhoon severity and environmental factors	5
The empty forest three decades later: Lessons and prospects	5
The role of deterministic succession during forest development within a southern African savanna	5
Roost site use by Great (Buceros bicornis) and Wreathed (Rhyticeros undulatus) Hornbill and its implications for seed dispersal	5
Morphology of four common and phylogenetically distant ant species varies along disturbance and aridity gradients in the Caatinga dry forest	5
Radial and vertical variation of wood nutrients in Bornean tropical forest trees	5
Short flowers for long tongues: Functional specialization in a nocturnal pollination network of an asclepiad in long‐tongued hawkmoths	5
Functional robustness of seed dispersal by a remnant frugivore population on a defaunated tropical island	5
The eco‐evolutionary history of Madagascar presents unique challenges to tropical forest restoration	5
A universal pharmacy: Possible self‐medication using tree balsam by multiple Atlantic Forest mammals	4
Wildlife predation by dogs in Madagascar	4
Three‐year monitoring of roadkill trend in a road adjacent to a national park in Panama	4
Proximity to forest mediates trade‐offs between yields and biodiversity of birds in oil palm smallholdings	4
Animal‐mediated seed dispersal in India: Implications for conservation of India’s biodiversity	4
Climatic distribution of tree species in the Atlantic Forest	4
Spatial autocorrelation shapes liana distribution better than topography and host tree properties in a subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest in SW China	4
Interactive effects of elevation and newly paved road on avian community composition in a scientific reserve, Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea	4
Darwin’s Hawkmoth (Xanthopan praedicta) responds to bat ultrasound at sonar‐jamming rates	4
The above–belowground functional space of tropical dry forest communities responds to local hydric habitats	4
Effects of land‐use on fruit bat distribution in different habitats along the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania	4
Big family, warm home, and lots of friends: Pteronotus large colonies affect species richness and occupation inside caves	4
Habitat alteration modifies the structure and function of mixed‐species flocks in an Andean landscape	4
Soil macro‐ and mesofauna‐mediated litter decomposition in a subtropical karst forest	4
Hurricane‐associated population decrease in a critically endangered long‐lived reptile	4
Characterizing primate home‐ranges in Amazonia: Using ferns and lycophytes as indicators of site quality	4
Estimating carbon biomass in forests using incomplete data	4
Uncovering mechanisms of seed predation by fish	4
Association patterns of swollen‐thorn acacias with three ant species and other organisms in a dry forest of Panama	4
Responses of tropical tree seedlings in the forest–savanna boundary to combined effects of grass competition and fire	4
Smaller size of harlequin toads from populations long exposed to the fungal disease chytridiomycosis	4
Neglected epiphytism: Accidental epiphytes dominate epiphytic communities on tree ferns in the Atlantic Forest	4
Sacred groves of Central India: Diversity status, carbon storage, and conservation strategies	4
Dissimilarities in species assemblages among Amazonian mineral licks	4
Cactus height increases the modularity of a plant–frugivore network in the Caatinga dry forest	4
Snow damage in a Himalayan forest maintains the dominance of evergreen oaks	4
Body shape and diet reflect arboreality degree of five congeneric snakes sympatric in the Atlantic forest	4

Multiple dimensions of biodiversity in paleotropical hotspots reveal comparable bat diversity	4
Temporal stability in species richness but reordering in species abundances within avian assemblages of a tropical Andes conservation hot spot	4
Dung beetle activity had no positive effect on nutrient concentration or performance of established rainforest seedlings	4
Using the area of habitat to assess the extent of protection of India's birds	4
Aridity and chronic anthropogenic disturbance as organizing forces of fruit‐feeding butterfly assemblages in a Caatinga dry forest	4
Fruit tree phenology in traditionally managed versus protected forests in Malaysian Borneo	3
Soil nitrogen mediates the effect of climatic distance on herbivory rates in a tropical herb	3
Altitude and temperature drive anuran community assembly in a Neotropical mountain region	3
Environmental variation associated with topography explains butterfly diversity along a tropical elevation gradient	3
Harvesting has variable effects on demographic rates and population growth across three dry forest tree species	3
Conservation conundrum: Endangered species persists on noxious weed	3
Habitat differences in seed‐dispersing vertebrates indicate dispersal limitation in tropical bracken‐dominated deforested areas	3
Habitat quality and edge area of fragments determine insect diversity in a heavily used landscape: Implications for forest landscape restoration	3
Frugivory and seed dispersal in the Cerrado: Network structure and defaunation effects	3
Latitudinal cline of flowering and fruiting phenology in Fagaceae in Asia	3
Breeding and feeding habitat selection by an island endemic bird may increase its vulnerability to climate change	3
Island size predicts mammal diversity in insular environments, except for land‐bridge islands	3
Decay classes of coarse woody debris in a lowland Dipterocarp forest: implications for volume, density, and carbon estimates	3
Large tree species composition, not growth rates, is affected by topography in a Bornean tropical forest	3
Climate and microhabitat shape the prevalence of endozoochory in the seed rain of tropical montane forests	3
Evolutionary history and precipitation seasonality shape niche overlap in Neotropical bat–plant pollination networks	3
Determinants of resource use in lizard assemblages from the semiarid Caatinga, Brazil	3
Can matrix structure affect animal navigation between fragments? A dispersal experiment using release platforms	3
DNA‐based fungal diversity in Madagascar and arrival of the ectomycorrhizal fungi to the island	3
Does the stork bring home the owl? Dusky Eagle‐Owls Bubo coromandus breeding on Woolly‐necked Stork Ciconia episcopus nests	3
Does mining waste concentration in the soil interfere with leaf selection by Acromyrmex subterraneus (Formicidae)?	3
Subannual phenology and the effect of staggered fruit ripening on dispersal competition	3
Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) at risk in western Mexico	3
Biogeographic and evolutionary history of Crotonoideae based on pollen evidence from Indian Late Cretaceous and Paleogene sediments	3
Functional roles of frugivores and plants shape hyper‐diverse mutualistic interactions under two antagonistic conservation scenarios	3
Plant–herbivore assemblages composed of endophagous and exophagous insects have different patterns of diversity and specialization in Brazilian savannas	3
Limited seed dispersal shapes fine‐scale spatial genetic structure in a Neotropical dioecious large‐seeded palm	3
Abundance predominates over niche factors as determinant of the frequency of interactions between frugivorous birds and plants	3
Influence of microhabitat on the distribution of tadpoles of three endemic Nyctibatrachus species (Nyctibatrachidae) from the Western Ghats, India	3
Rove beetle diversity and coffee agroecosystems in the Colombian Andes	3
Population genetic structure of the insular Ryukyu flying fox Pteropus dasymallus	3
Army ant males lose seasonality at a site on the equator	3
Ants mediate community composition of root‐associated fungi in an ant‐plant mutualism	3
The importance of wood density in determining the phenology of tree species in a coastal rain forest	3
Beyond the gardens: The extended mutualism from ant‐garden ants to nectary‐bearing plants growing in Amazon tree‐fall gaps	3
Associations of bird and bat species richness with temperature and remote sensing‐based vegetation structure on a tropical mountain	3
Spatial structure of rainforest termites: Two matched pioneering cross‐continental case studies	3
Plant–treehopper convergence may trick butterflies into trophic oviposition mistakes	3
Soil nutrient dissimilarity and litter nutrient limitation as major drivers of home field advantage in riparian tropical forests	3
Disentangling the factors that shape bromeliad and ant communities in the canopies of cocoa agroforestry and preserved Atlantic Forest	3
Do prey shape, time of day, and plant trichomes affect the predation rate on plasticine prey in tropical rainforests?	3
The inter‐forest line could be the master key to track biocoenotic effects of climate change in a subtropical forest	3
Myoglobin as a conservation‐relevant predictor of short‐distance flight capacity in Neotropical forest birds	3
Population‐level plant pollination mode is influenced by Quaternary climate and pollinators	3
Behavioral models of hydrothermal regulation in anurans: A field study in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil	3
Geographical variation in the bill–flower fit in a plant–pollinator interaction in western Mexico	3
Chimpanzees as ecosystem service providers: Seed dispersal of an economically important plant resource	3
Effects of canopy connectivity on the arboreal ant community in coffee shade trees	3
The role of urban tropical botanic gardens in biodiversity conservation: An example from the KNUST botanic garden in Kumasi, Ghana	3
Predicting tropical tree mortality with leaf spectroscopy	3
A meta‐analysis of the effects of fragmentation on the megadiverse herpetofauna of Brazil	3
Upper thermal limits predict herpetofaunal responses to forest edge and cover	3
Prescribed fire enhances seed removal by ants in a Neotropical savanna	3
The flooded habitat adaptation, niche differentiation, and evolution of Myristicaceae trees in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot in India	3
Environmental, spatial and biotic factors affect the tadpole distribution in Brazilian savannas	2
Disentangling drivers of thermal physiology: Community‐wide cold shock recovery of butterflies under natural conditions	2
Regional variation in responses of a vulnerable bird species to land‐use and climate change	2
Chytrid prevalence and infection intensity in treefrogs from three environments with different degrees of conservation in Mexico	2
Rhizophora zonation, salinity, and nutrients in the western atlantic	2
Molecular diversity of dragonflies in three high‐elevation Andean tropical lakes through DNA barcoding	2
Ectomycorrhizal fungal community assembly on seedlings of a Neotropical monodominant tree	2
Effects of forest fragmentation on the weight of understory birds at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project in Amazonia	2
Vertically stratified frugivore community composition and interaction frequency in a liana fruiting across forest strata	2
Observations and description of a rare escape mechanism in a snake: Cartwheeling in Pseudorabdion longiceps (Cantor, 1847) (Squamata, Colubridea)	2
Seed fate in ant‐mediated dispersal: Seed dispersal effectiveness in the Ectatomma ruidum (Formicidae)—Zanthoxylum ekmanii (Rutaceae) system	2
Wind dispersal and 1‐year survival of Vataireopsis iglesiasii (Fabaceae) seedlings in a Neotropical lowland rain forest	2
Biodiversity of India: Evolution, biogeography, and conservation	2
Comparison of macro‐molluscan assemblages in a protected and a non‐protected tropical seagrass ecosystem	2
Heterospecific infanticide among sympatric peccaries in Costa Rica	2
Genetic inference of orchid population dynamics on different‐aged lava flows in Costa Rica	2
Variations in the reproductive cycle of Bornean montane tree species along elevational gradients on ultrabasic and non‐ultrabasic soils	2
Are fragments fruitful? A comparison of plant–seed disperser communities between fragments and contiguous forest in north‐east India	2
Local and landscape correlates of coccinellid species richness, abundance, and assemblage change along a rural–urban gradient in Quintana Roo, Mexico	2
Long‐term dynamics of wild primate populations across forests with contrasting protection in Tanzania	2
Frog call transmission in forestry monocultures: Are there drawbacks?	2
Seasonality in the equatorial tropics: Flower, fruit, and leaf phenology of montane trees in the highlands of Southwest Uganda	2
Hummingbird diversity in a fragmented tropical landscape in the Chocó biogeographic zone	2
Fine‐scale temporal dynamics of flower visitors sheds light on insect‐assemblage overlap between sexes in a dioecious Ecuadorian palm	2
Recolonization of secondary forests by locally extinct fauna through the lens of range expansion: Four open questions	2
Abundance variations within feeding guilds reveal ecological mechanisms behind avian species richness pattern along the elevational gradient of Mount Cameroon	2
Functional traits predict tree‐level phenological strategies in a mesic Indian savanna	2
Local colonization and extinction in forestry habitats: Assessing the effects of productive activities on the occupancy dynamics of bird populations	2
Land use has little influence on the soil seed bank in a central African moist forest	2
Altitudinal variation of leaf carbon isotope for Dendrosenecio keniensis and Lobelia gregoriana in Mount Kenya alpine zone	2
Evidence for hawkmoth pollination in the chiropterophilous African baobab (Adansonia digitata)	2
Directed vertebrate‐mediated seed dispersal of a fleshy‐fruited amaryllid in a heterogenous habitat	2
Soil carbon, nutrient, and vegetation dynamics of an old Anogeissus grove in Mole National Park, Ghana	2
Two ant‐following bird species forage with three giant sengi (Rhynchocyon) species in East Africa	2
Decadienal afforestation and risks to montane grassland amphibians in the Udzungwa Plateau, Tanzania	2
Drymarchon corais(Colubridae) andCaiman crocodilus(Alligatoridae) use different feeding behaviors to consume poisonous toads	2