Biotropica

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Human perturbations reduce dung beetle diversity and dung removal ecosystem function	44
The Erwin equation of biodiversity: From little steps to quantum leaps in the discovery of tropical insect diversity	26
Agouti reintroduction recovers seed dispersal of a large‐seeded tropical tree	25
Searching for keystone plant resources in fruit‐frugivore interaction networks across the Neotropics	25
Bird diversity and endemism along a land‐use gradient in Madagascar: The conservation value of vanilla agroforests	24
Bats and hawkmoths form mixed modules with flowering plants in a nocturnal interaction network	24
Spatial heterogeneity and habitat configuration overcome habitat composition influences on alpha and beta mammal diversity	23
Primate life history, social dynamics, ecology, and conservation: Contributions from long‐term research in Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica	22
On the floristic identity of Amazonian vegetation types	21
Detecting successional changes in tropical forest structure using GatorEye drone‐borne lidar	21
It is not just about time: Agricultural practices and surrounding forest cover affect secondary forest recovery in agricultural landscapes	21
Net benefits of a mutualism: Influence of the quality of extrafloral nectar on the colony fitness of a mutualistic ant	19
The mechanical stability of the world’s tallest broadleaf trees	19
Functional diversity of phyllostomid bats in an urban–rural landscape: A scale‐dependent analysis	18
Detecting aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity in a tropical estuary using environmental DNA	18
The effect of flight efficiency on gap‐crossing ability in Amazonian forest birds	17
Spatiotemporal dynamics of the ant community in a dry forest differ by vertical strata but not by successional stage	17
Bat–flower interaction networks in Caatinga reveal generalized associations and temporal stability	17
Testing the environmental prediction hypothesis for community‐wide mass flowering in South‐East Asia	16
Forest cover and fruit crop size differentially influence frugivory of select rainforest tree species in Western Ghats, India	16
Gut microbiome, diet, and conservation of endangered langurs in Sri Lanka	15
Additive and non‐additive responses of seedlings to simulated herbivory and drought	15
Plant species specificity of ant–plant mutualistic interactions: Differential predation of termites by Camponotus crassus on five species of extrafloral nectaries plants	15
Shade tree traits and microclimate modifications: Implications for pathogen management in biodiverse coffee agroforests	15
Beyond MAP: A guide to dimensions of rainfall variability for tropical ecology	15

Evolutionary heritage shapes tree distributions along an Amazon‐to‐Andes elevation gradient	14
Climate and plant structure determine the spatiotemporal butterfly distribution on a tropical mountain	14
Geography of roadkills within the Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot: Poorly known vertebrates are part of the toll	14
Chemical defenses shift with the seasonal vertical migration of a Panamanian poison frog	14
Variation in leaf temperatures of tropical and subtropical trees are related to leaf thermoregulatory traits and not geographic distributions	13
Tropical forest loss drives divergent patterns in functional diversity of forest and non‐forest birds	13
Long‐term monitoring of seed dispersal by Asian elephants in a Sundaland rainforest	13
Impoverished woody seedling assemblages and the regeneration of Caatinga dry forest in a human‐modified landscape	13
Potential impacts of COVID‐19 on tropical forest recovery	12
Fostering local involvement for biodiversity conservation in tropical regions: Lessons from Madagascar during the COVID‐19 pandemic	12
Factors influencing herpetofauna abundance and diversity in a tropical agricultural landscape mosaic	12
Highways are a threat for giant armadillos that underpasses can mitigate	12
The relative role of rivers, environmental heterogeneity and species traits in driving compositional changes in southeastern Amazonian bird assemblages	11
Habitat structure mediates vulnerability to climate change through its effects on thermoregulatory behavior	11
The role of nocturnal omnivorous lemurs as seed dispersers in Malagasy rain forests	11
Improved household living standards can restore dry tropical forests	11
Changing the main course: strong bat visitation to the ornithophilous mistletoe Psittacanthus robustus (Loranthaceae) in a Neotropical savanna	11
Permeability of Neotropical agricultural lands to a key native ungulate—Are well‐connected forests important?	11
Landscape heterogeneity shapes bird phylogenetic responses at forest–matrix interfaces in Atlantic Forest, Brazil	11
Exponential rise in the discovery of endemic plants underscores the need to conserve the Indian savannas	11
Temporal interactions and moon illumination effect on mammals in a tropical semievergreen forest of Manas National Park, Assam, India	11
The functional ecology of bat pollination in the African sausage tree Kigelia africana (Bignoniaceae)	10
Landscape structure and local variables affect plant community diversity and structure in a Brazilian agricultural landscape	10
Genetic diversity and functional connectivity of a critically endangered salamander	10
Midges not only sucks, but may carry lethal pathogens to wild amphibians	10
The negative effect of lianas on tree growth varies with tree species and season	10
Drought and soil nutrients effects on symbiotic nitrogen fixation in seedlings from eight Neotropical legume species	10
When waterholes get busy, rare interactions thrive: Photographic evidence of a jaguar (Panthera onca) killing an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)	10
Anticipating the potential impacts of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans on Neotropical salamander diversity	10
Lost mutualisms: Seed dispersal by Sumatran rhinos, the world’s most threatened megafauna	9
Arboreal monkeys facilitate foraging of terrestrial frugivores	9
A meta‐analysis of tropical land‐use change effects on the soil microbiome: Emerging patterns and knowledge gaps	9
Fruit preferences by fishes in a Neotropical floodplain	9
Trick or treat? Pollinator attraction in Vanilla pompona (Orchidaceae)	9
Ant–scale mutualism increases scale infestation, decreases folivory, and disrupts biological control in restored tropical forests	9
Seasonal dietary niche contraction in coexisting Neotropical frugivorous bats (Stenodermatinae)	9
Native mammals disperse the highly invasive Senna spectabilis in the Western Ghats, India	9
Seasonal isotopic niche of a rodent: High between‐individual variation but no changes in individual niche width during the rich‐resource period	9
Forest biomass stocks and dynamics across the subtropical Andes	9
Community science data provide evidence for upward elevational range shifts by Eastern Himalayan birds	8
Functional redundancy of Amazonian dung beetles confers community‐level resistance to primary forest disturbance	8
Elevation and leaf litter interact in determining the structure of ant communities on a tropical mountain	8
Floristics of forests across low nutrient soils in Sulawesi, Indonesia	8
Assessing the importance of reproductive modes for the evaluation of altitudinal distribution patterns in tropical frogs	8
Impacts of habitat on butterfly dispersal in tropical forests, parks and grassland patches embedded in an urban landscape	8
Conservation implications of living in forest remnants: Inbreeding and genetic structure of the northernmost mantled howler monkeys	8
Climate change induced elevational range shifts of Himalayan tree species	8
High spatial resolution mapping identifies habitat characteristics of the invasive vine Antigonon leptopus on St. Eustatius (Lesser Antilles)	8
Importance of interaction rewiring in determining spatial and temporal turnover of tritrophic (Piper‐caterpillar‐parasitoid) metanetworks in the Yucatán Península, México	8
The interplay between local and landscape scales on the density of pond‐dwelling anurans in subtropical grasslands	8

The weight of the crust: Biomass of crustose lichens in tropical dry forest represents more than half of foliar biomass	8
Small seed bank in grasslands and tree plantations in former grassland sites in the South Brazilian highlands	8
Tropical wood stores substantial amounts of nutrients, but we have limited understanding why	8
Climatic sensitivity of species’ vegetative and reproductive phenology in a Hawaiian montane wet forest	8
Variation in trunk taper of buttressed trees within and among five lowland tropical forests	8
Heterogeneous agroecosystems support high diversity and abundance of trap‐nesting bees and wasps among tropical crops	8
Sharing sound: Avian acoustic niches in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	8
Spider diversity across an elevation gradient in Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica	8
Tree seedling responses to leaf‐cutting ants herbivory in Atlantic Forest restoration sites	7
Different elevational environments dictate contrasting patterns of niche evolution in Neotropical Pithecopus treefrog species	7
Functional diversity and redundancy of tropical forest mammals over time	7
Human disturbance and the activity patterns and temporal overlap of tapirs and jaguars in reserves of NW Belize	7
Role of the Andean uplift as an asymmetrical barrier to gene flow in the neotropical leaf‐cutting ant Atta cephalotes	7
Drought and fire determine juvenile and adult woody diversity and dominance in a semi‐arid African savanna	7
Flammability in tropical savannas: Variation among growth forms and seasons in Cerrado	7
Conversion of Andean montane forests into plantations: Effects on soil characteristics, microorganisms, and microarthropods	7
Upward shifts in elevational limits of forest and grassland for Mexican volcanoes over three decades	7
Species distribution models predict the geographic expansion of an enzootic amphibian pathogen	7
Ecosystem functions in natural and anthropogenic ecosystems across the East African coastal forest landscape	7
Influence of sea turtle nesting on hunting behavior and movements of jaguars in the dry forest of northwest Costa Rica	7
Something is not quite right: Effects of two land uses on anuran diversity in subtropical grasslands	7
Fine‐scale habitat heterogeneity influences browsing damage by elephant and giraffe	7
Gamma, alpha, and beta diversity of ant assemblages response to a gradient of forest cover in human‐modified landscape in Brazilian Amazon	7
Effects of pasture and forest microclimatic conditions on the foraging activity of leaf‐cutting ants	7
Elevational distribution of birds in an Eastern African montane environment as governed by temperature, precipitation, and habitat availability	7
Insights into the functional ecology of páramo plants in Colombia	7
Drought‐induced reductions in plant defenses: Insights from extrafloral nectaries in the Caatinga dry forest	6
Clearcutting and selective logging have inconsistent effects on liana diversity and abundance but not on liana–tree interaction networks	6
Interactions of the influences of habitat protection, habitat heterogeneity, and periodic flooding on waterbirds of the lower Paraná River, Argentina	6
Leaf litter decomposition in tropical freshwater swamp forests is slower in swamp than non‐swamp conditions	6
Hydraulic architecture explains species moisture dependency but not mortality rates across a tropical rainfall gradient	6
Wood species identity alters dominant factors driving fine wood decomposition along a tree diversity gradient in subtropical plantation forests	6
Seed dispersal effectiveness by oilbirds (Steatornis caripensis) in the Southern Andes of Colombia	6
Impacts of rodent eradication on seed predation and plant community biomass on a tropical atoll	6
Assessing avian diversity and community composition along a successional gradient in traditional Lacandon Maya agroforests	6
Thermal adaptations to extreme freeze–thaw cycles in the high tropical Andes	6
Seed size and pubescence facilitate secondary dispersal by dung beetles	6
Ecological drivers of intraspecific variation in seed dispersal services of a common neotropical palm	6
Conspecific negative density dependence of trees varies with plant functional traits and environmental conditions across scales in a 60‐ha tropical rainforest dynamics plot	6
Shade alters the growth and architecture of tropical grasses by reducing root biomass	6
Distinct leaf water potential regulation of tree species and vegetation types across the Cerrado–Amazonia transition	6
Forest fires facilitate growth of herbaceous bamboos in central Amazonia	6
Seasonality and interspecific competition shape individual niche variation in co‐occurring tetra fish in Neotropical streams	6
Being a bright snake: Testing aposematism and mimicry in a neotropical forest	6
Leaf trait co‐variation and trade‐offs in gallery forest C3 and CAM epiphytes	6
Human impacts alter the distribution of fish functional diversity in Neotropical stream system	6
Lizard and frog removal increases spider abundance but does not cascade to increase herbivory	6
Structure of small tropical island freshwater fish and crustacean communities: A niche‐or dispersal‐based process?	6
Detecting ecological thresholds for biodiversity in tropical forests: Knowledge gaps and future directions	6
Litter decomposition rates across tropical montane and lowland forests are controlled foremost by climate	6
Wildlife rehabilitation centers as a potential source of transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 into native wildlife of Latin America	6
Low‐intensity cattle grazing is better than cattle exclusion to drive secondary savannas toward the features of native Cerrado vegetation	6
Mutualistic relationships in marine angiosperms: Enhanced germination of seeds by mega‐herbivores	6
Aboveground carbon stocks, woody and litter productivity along an elevational gradient in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda	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
Phylogenetic and ecological correlates of pollen morphological diversity in a Neotropical rainforest	6
Coarse woody debris density and carbon concentration by decay classes in mixed montane wet tropical forests	6
Patterns and controls on island‐wide aboveground biomass accumulation in second‐growth forests of Puerto Rico	5
Can variation in seed removal patterns of Neotropical pioneer tree species be explained by local ant community composition?	5
Functional and genetic diversity changes through time in a cloud forest ant assemblage	5
Fruit trees drive small‐scale movement of elephants in Kibale National Park, Uganda	5
Litter‐trapping tank bromeliads in five different forests: Carbon and nutrient pools and fluxes	5
Biotropica announces a new paper category: Natural History Field Notes	5
Dung beetle‐megafauna trophic networks in Singapore’s fragmented forests	5
Impact of human disturbance on the abundance of non‐breeding shorebirds in a subtropical wetland	5
Interplay of environmental cues and wood density in the vegetative and reproductive phenology of seasonally dry tropical forest trees	5
30 years brings changes to the arthropod community of Kibale National Park, Uganda	5
Long‐term fire and vegetation change in northwestern Amazonia	5
Functional robustness of seed dispersal by a remnant frugivore population on a defaunated tropical island	5
Effects of habitat transitions on rainforest bird communities across an anthropogenic landscape mosaic	5
Resource‐related variables drive individual variation in flowering phenology and mediate population‐level flowering responses to climate in an asynchronously reproducing palm	5
Sustainable harvesting and conservation of Laelia furfuracea, a rare epiphytic orchid from Oaxaca, Mexico	5
Active modification of cavity nest‐entrances is a common strategy in arboreal ants	5
Trophic cascades in tropical rainforests: Effects of vertebrate predator exclusion on arthropods and plants in Papua New Guinea	5
Insights into human‐wildlife coexistence through temporal activity pattern overlaps in a neglected tropical forest in India	5
Savannas after afforestation: Assessment of herbaceous community responses to wildfire versus native tree planting	5
Non‐continuous reproductive phenology of animal‐dispersed species in young forest restoration plantings	5
Lightning‐caused disturbance in the Peruvian Amazon	5
Camera trapping reveals multispecies use of water‐filled tree holes by birds and mammals in a neotropical 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
Leaf damage by herbivore feeding guilds along gradients of elevation and plant species richness	5
Uncovering the vertebrate scavenger guild composition and functioning in the Cerrado biodiversity hotspot	5
Safe space in the woods: Mechanistic spatial models for predicting risks of human–bear conflicts in India	5
Even small forest patches increase bee visits to flowers in an oil palm plantation landscape	5
Morphology of four common and phylogenetically distant ant species varies along disturbance and aridity gradients in the Caatinga dry forest	5
Simulated chorus attracts conspecific and heterospecific Amazonian explosive breeding frogs	5
The role of deterministic succession during forest development within a southern African savanna	4
The role of non‐natural foods in the nutritional strategies of monkeys in a human‐modified mosaic landscape	4
Cryptic sexual dimorphism reveals differing selection pressures on continental islands	4
Spatial pattern of tree diversity and impacts of ecological disturbances on forest structure in tropical deciduous forests of Central India	4
Leaf‐cutting ant nests support less dense and impoverished seed assemblages in a human‐modified Caatinga dry forest	4
Diversity patterns of epiphytic bryophytes across spatial scales: Species‐rich crowns and beta‐diverse trunks	4
Association patterns of swollen‐thorn acacias with three ant species and other organisms in a dry forest of Panama	4
Influence of avocado orchard landscapes on amphibians and reptiles in the trans‐Mexican volcanic belt	4
Large herbivores regulate the spatial recruitment of a hyperdominant Neotropical palm	4
Fish communities critically depend on forest subsidies in small neotropical streams with high biodiversity value	4
Juggling options: Manipulation ease determines primate optimal fruit‐size choice	4
Nonchalant neighbors: Space use and overlap of the critically endangered Elongated Tortoise	4
Ant diversity decreases during the dry season: A meta‐analysis of the effects of seasonality on ant richness and abundance	4
Temporal stability in species richness but reordering in species abundances within avian assemblages of a tropical Andes conservation hot spot	4
Soil macro‐ and mesofauna‐mediated litter decomposition in a subtropical karst forest	4
Dung beetle activity had no positive effect on nutrient concentration or performance of established rainforest seedlings	4
Environmental drivers of femaleness of an inter‐Andean monoecious shrub	4
Effects of temperature and precipitation on litterfall phenology in four evergreen broad‐leaved forests of southern China	4
Variation of seasonal litterfall in subtropical montane cloud forests to typhoon severity and environmental factors	4
Species richness and assemblages of bats along a forest elevational transect in Papua New Guinea	4
Dissimilarities in species assemblages among Amazonian mineral licks	4
Vertical stratification of dung beetles in young secondary forests of Singapore	4
Proximity to forest mediates trade‐offs between yields and biodiversity of birds in oil palm smallholdings	4
Habitat and host associations of the fish‐burrowing parasite Artystone minima (Cymothoidae: Isopoda) in eastern Amazonia	4
Body shape and diet reflect arboreality degree of five congeneric snakes sympatric in the Atlantic forest	4
Weak edge effects on trees in Bornean rainforest remnants bordering oil palm	4
Reduced predation by arthropods and higher herbivory in burned Amazonian forests	4
Interactive effects of elevation and newly paved road on avian community composition in a scientific reserve, Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea	4
The empty forest three decades later: Lessons and prospects	4
Frugivory and seed dispersal in the Cerrado: Network structure and defaunation effects	3
Effects of canopy connectivity on the arboreal ant community in coffee shade trees	3
Uncovering mechanisms of seed predation by fish	3
Decay classes of coarse woody debris in a lowland Dipterocarp forest: implications for volume, density, and carbon estimates	3
Spatial autocorrelation shapes liana distribution better than topography and host tree properties in a subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest in SW China	3
Habitat alteration modifies the structure and function of mixed‐species flocks in an Andean landscape	3
Habitat quality and edge area of fragments determine insect diversity in a heavily used landscape: Implications for forest landscape restoration	3
Can matrix structure affect animal navigation between fragments? A dispersal experiment using release platforms	3
The effect of species composition dissimilarity on plant–herbivore network structure is not consistent over time	3
Habitat loss in the restricted range of the endemic Ghanaian cichlid Limbochromis robertsi	3
The above–belowground functional space of tropical dry forest communities responds to local hydric habitats	3
A meta‐analysis of the effects of fragmentation on the megadiverse herpetofauna of Brazil	3
Responses of tropical tree seedlings in the forest–savanna boundary to combined effects of grass competition and fire	3
Roost site use by Great (Buceros bicornis) and Wreathed (Rhyticeros undulatus) Hornbill and its implications for seed dispersal	3
Beyond the gardens: The extended mutualism from ant‐garden ants to nectary‐bearing plants growing in Amazon tree‐fall gaps	3
Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) at risk in western Mexico	3
Environmental filtering and deforestation shape frog assemblages in Amazonia: An empirical approach assessing species abundances and functional traits	3
Dietary importance of C3 and CAM food pathways for birds in a Neotropical semiarid zone	3
Soil nitrogen mediates the effect of climatic distance on herbivory rates in a tropical herb	3
Conservation conundrum: Endangered species persists on noxious weed	3
Radial and vertical variation of wood nutrients in Bornean tropical forest trees	3
Abundance predominates over niche factors as determinant of the frequency of interactions between frugivorous birds and plants	3
Forest structure predicts species richness and functional diversity in Amazonian mixed‐species bird flocks	3
Three‐year monitoring of roadkill trend in a road adjacent to a national park in Panama	3
Multiple dimensions of biodiversity in paleotropical hotspots reveal comparable bat diversity	3
Canopy structure and forest understory conditions in a wet Amazonian forest—No change over the last 20 years	3
Upper thermal limits predict herpetofaunal responses to forest edge and cover	3
Evolutionary history and precipitation seasonality shape niche overlap in Neotropical bat–plant pollination networks	3
Liana communities exhibit different species composition, diversity and community structure across forest types in the Congo Basin	3
The importance of wood density in determining the phenology of tree species in a coastal rain forest	3
Predicting tropical tree mortality with leaf spectroscopy	3
Body mass affects short‐term heterothermy in Neotropical bats	3
Population genetic structure of the insular Ryukyu flying fox Pteropus dasymallus	3
Do prey shape, time of day, and plant trichomes affect the predation rate on plasticine prey in tropical rainforests?	3
The eco‐evolutionary history of Madagascar presents unique challenges to tropical forest restoration	3
Animal‐mediated seed dispersal in India: Implications for conservation of India’s biodiversity	3
Smaller size of harlequin toads from populations long exposed to the fungal disease chytridiomycosis	3
Tree‐gouging by marmosets (Primates: Callitrichidae) enhances tree turnover	3
Spatial structure of rainforest termites: Two matched pioneering cross‐continental case studies	3
Does mining waste concentration in the soil interfere with leaf selection by Acromyrmex subterraneus (Formicidae)?	3
The legacy of forest logging on organic matter inputs and storage in tropical streams	3
Wildlife predation by dogs in Madagascar	3
Island size predicts mammal diversity in insular environments, except for land‐bridge islands	3
Rove beetle diversity and coffee agroecosystems in the Colombian Andes	3
Myoglobin as a conservation‐relevant predictor of short‐distance flight capacity in Neotropical forest birds	3
Evaluating community effects of a Keystone Ant, Azteca sericeasur, on Inga micheliana leaf litter decomposition in a shaded coffee agro‐ecosystem	3
The community structure of bird assemblages on urban strangler figs	3
Abundance and composition of forest‐dwelling anurans in cashew plantations in a tropical semi‐evergreen forest landscape	3
Using the area of habitat to assess the extent of protection of India's birds	3
Altitude and temperature drive anuran community assembly in a Neotropical mountain region	3
Ants mediate community composition of root‐associated fungi in an ant‐plant mutualism	3
Characterizing primate home‐ranges in Amazonia: Using ferns and lycophytes as indicators of site quality	3
DNA‐based fungal diversity in Madagascar and arrival of the ectomycorrhizal fungi to the island	3
Harvesting has variable effects on demographic rates and population growth across three dry forest tree species	3
Aridity and chronic anthropogenic disturbance as organizing forces of fruit‐feeding butterfly assemblages in a Caatinga dry forest	3
Tayra (Eira barbara) landscape use as a function of cover types, forest protection, and the presence of puma and free‐ranging dogs	3
Neglected epiphytism: Accidental epiphytes dominate epiphytic communities on tree ferns in the Atlantic Forest	3
Rainforest conversion to smallholder cash crops leads to varying declines of beetles (Coleoptera) on Sumatra	3
Effects of land‐use on fruit bat distribution in different habitats along the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania	3