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Citizen science and color pattern analysis indicate unreported Batesian mimicry between Neotropical snakes	30
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Fallen trees as “natural bridges” for the movement of mammals crossing rivers	20
Taxonomic and functional avian diversity vary with cattle management practices in humid Chaco forests of Argentina	19
2023 Julie S Denslow & Peter Ashton Prizes for the outstanding articles published in Biotropica	19
Trees Inside and Outside of Forests in Guanacaste, Costa Rica: Comparisons Among Conservation Areas, Fencerows, and Urban Parks	18
Habitat Amount Shapes Ant Diversity in the Central Amazon	17
Short‐Term Effects of El Niño (2023–2024 ENSO) Drought on Predation Patterns of Lepidopteran Prey in an Urban‐Agricultural Ecosystems	17
Seed dispersal of Madagascar's iconic baobab species, Adansonia grandidieri	16
Habitat Conditions and Neighborhood Interactions Drive the Phylogenetic Structure of Seedling Assemblages in a Tropical Forest Mosaic	16
Silviculture Simplifies Anuran–Prey Networks and Increases Niche Partitioning in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	16
Soil Enzyme Stoichiometry Indicates the Alleviation of Microbial Carbon and Nutrient Limitations After Forest Restoration in Rubber Monocultures, Southwest China	15
Vertebrate seed predation can limit recruitment of later‐successional species in tropical forest restoration	15
Use of the Alternative Stable States Concept in Tropical Terrestrial Ecosystem Research—A Systematic Literature Review	14
Spatiotemporal patterns of trophic niche variation within and among species of tropical coastal fishes	14
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Bioacoustic Assessment of Mangrove Health: Influence of Habitat Characteristics on Bird Richness	13
Patterns of Leaf, Flower, and Fruit Phenology and Environmental Relationships in a Seasonal Tropical Forest in the Indian Eastern Himalaya	13
Forest‐Associated Understorey Birds Persist in Agroforestry Orchards Within Tropical Rubber and Oil Palm Landscapes	13
Weak edge effects on trees in Bornean rainforest remnants bordering oil palm	12
Impacts of large dams on Amazonian floodplain bird communities	12
Phenotypic, Floristic, and Anthropogenic Drivers of the Pollen Niche of Amazonian Stingless Bees	12
Abundance variations within feeding guilds reveal ecological mechanisms behind avian species richness pattern along the elevational gradient of Mount Cameroon	12

Amphibians' Expansion to Record Elevations Influences Chytrid ( Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis ) I	11
Impact of human foraging on tree diversity, composition, and abundance in a tropical rainforest	11
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Decadienal afforestation and risks to montane grassland amphibians in the Udzungwa Plateau, Tanzania	11
Land‐use changes impact responses of termite functional and taxonomic diversity in the Colombian Amazon	11
Migration Patterns of Epiphyllous Bryophyte Metapopulations in Amazonian Fragmented Landscape Inferred From Census and Genomic Data	11
Beans with bugs: Covert carnivory and infested seed selection by the red‐nosed cuxiú monkey	11
Urbanization Effects on Taxonomic and Functional Beta Diversity of Dung Beetles in an Amazonian Landscape	10
Geophagy by a large herbivore (capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) driven by a human sodium supply	10
Moderate anthropogenic impacts alter temporal niche without affecting spatial distribution of ocelots in the Amazon rainforest	10
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Habitat differences in seed‐dispersing vertebrates indicate dispersal limitation in tropical bracken‐dominated deforested areas	10
Escape behavior lateralization of pointed‐belly frog (Leptodactylus podicipinus) (Anura, Leptodactylidae) in the southern Pantanal	10
Non‐floral scent sources of orchid bees: Observations and significance	10
2025 Julie S. Denslow and Peter Ashton Prizes for the Outstanding Articles Published in Biotropica	10
A Peculiar Neighbor of a Subtropical City of Latin America: The Synanthropic Rodents	10
Vegetation Structure and Soil Composition Influence Opiliones Diversity Across Spatial Scales in Amazonia	10
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Knowledge gaps and opportunities for conservation with orchid collectors in Vietnam	9
Directed vertebrate‐mediated seed dispersal of a fleshy‐fruited amaryllid in a heterogenous habitat	9
Lepidoptera research in Puerto Rico: Reconnecting with historical legacies to guide future priorities	9
2025 ATBC Honorary Fellows	9
Height–diameter allometry for a dominant palm to improve understanding of carbon and forest dynamics in forests of Puerto Rico	9
Niche expansion of capuchin monkeys to forest floor on guild‐reduced islands increases interspecific spatio‐temporal overlap	9
Where Art Thou? Urbanization Decreases Attacks on Sentinel Prey by Arthropods, but Not Birds, in a Tropical City	9
Forest resistance to drought in a humid tropical dipterocarp forest in the Western Ghats of India	9
Proximate cues of flowering in a subtropical rain forest	9
Isolated Trees in a Fragmented Tropical Landscape: A View Through the Soil Seed Bank	8
Consuming and consumed: Biotic interactions of African mistletoes across different trophic levels	8
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An unprecedented and unprovoked attack by a free‐ranging ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) in the Peruvian Amazon	8
Incomplete recovery of tree community composition and rare species after 120 years of tropical forest succession in Panama	8
ATBC 2022 Student and Early Career Awards	8
ATBC Code of Conduct	8
Radiocarbon estimates of age and growth for a dominant Amazon palm species	8
Strangler Figs and Their Spirits: How Indigenous Beliefs and Practices Influence an Iban Landscape, West Kalimantan, Indonesia	8
Challenges in the Early Ontogeny of a Mutualistic Plant: Resource Availability and Plant Defense in Juvenile Cecropia Ant‐Plants	8
Variations in the reproductive cycle of Bornean montane tree species along elevational gradients on ultrabasic and non‐ultrabasic soils	8
Effects of Vegetation Density on the Diversity of Lizards in an Area of the Brazilian Cerrado	8
Seeding success: Integrating seed dispersal networks in tropical forest restoration	7
Coastal dry tropical forests in Florida and the Caribbean in peril: A review	7
Impact of human disturbance on the abundance of non‐breeding shorebirds in a subtropical wetland	7
Native forest and proximity to humans are stronger drivers of Brazilian cottontail habitat use than invasive European hare	7
Large Yearly Fluctuations in Congregation Sizes of Migratory Danainae Butterflies in the Western Ghats, India	7
Clades That Frequently Accumulate Metals Do Not Have Low Abundance in the Tropical Forests of Sulawesi, Indonesia	7
Cactus height increases the modularity of a plant–frugivore network in the Caatinga dry forest	7
Impacts of Climate Change on the Movement Ecology of an Imperfect Homeotherm	7
Role of Rivers as Geographical Barriers in Shaping Molecular Divergence of Neotropical Primates	7
Rapoport's rule explains the range size distribution of butterflies along the Eastern Himalayan elevation gradient	7
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Predictive mapping of tree species assemblages in an African montane rainforest	7
Cattle Disperse Seeds and Aquatic Plants in Neotropical Wetlands	7
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
A predominantly diurnal tropical mammal increases nocturnality in response to high temperatures	6
Exploratory Movements and Natal Dispersal of Gray Hawks (Buteo plagiatus) in South Texas, USA	6
The Rapid Recovery of a Caatinga Dry Forest is Mediated by Disturbance‐Adapted Species	6
Distribution, social organization, and management of Semnopithecus johnii: An umbrella species of fragmented landscape of the Western Ghats	6
Drivers of jaguar (Panthera onca) and puma (Puma concolor) predation on endangered primates within a transformed landscape in southern Mexico	6
ATBC 2025 Student and Early Career Awards	6
Degradation and Fragmentation Effects on Structural Complexity in West‐African Forest Patches	6
Distance sampling from curving transects in dense tropical forests	6
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Lost in Amazon: Evidencing the southern extension of the geographic distribution of Linné's two‐toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus)	6
More the merrier? influence of mango orchards on the composition of the reptile communities of the lateritic plateaus, Maharashtra, India	6
Biotropica Announces a New Editor‐In‐Chief	6
Estimating Sunda Clouded Leopard Lifespans From Minimum Residence Times via Long‐Term Photo‐Tracking	6
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Effects of pasture‐burning management on anuran communities in subtropical Brazilian grasslands	6
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Correction to “Racing Amidst Change: Urbanization and Climate Alter Functional Traits and Distribution of an Amazonian Parthenogenetic Lizard”	5
Experimental Determination of Labidus coecus Army Ant Diet: Novel Evidence for a Feeding Strategy	5
Anthropogenic landscape features affect the ground habitat use of Penelope superciliaris (Cracidae), a large seed disperser bird in southeastern Brazil	5
Increasing fire severity alters the species composition and decreases richness of seeds potentially dispersed by small mammals	5
Variation of seasonal litterfall in subtropical montane cloud forests to typhoon severity and environmental factors	5
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Population Variability and Apparent Recent Decline of River Birds in the Indian Himalaya	5
Regional variation in responses of a vulnerable bird species to land‐use and climate change	5
A New Method of Fruit Marking for Studies on Chiropterochory	5
Direct and indirect plant defenses reduce damage by a generalist but not by a specialist pod borer	5
A jumping terrestrial leech from Madagascar	5
Chytrid prevalence and infection intensity in treefrogs from three environments with different degrees of conservation in Mexico	5
Chronic browsing by an introduced mammalian herbivore in a tropical island alters species composition and functional traits of forest understory plant communities	5
2023 ATBC Honorary Fellows	5
Factors limiting plant recruitment in a tropical Afromontane Forest	5
Correction to “Hydraulic architecture explains species moisture dependency but not mortality rates across a tropical rainfall gradient”	5
Contribution of small nocturnal lemurs to seed dispersal in Madagascar: A review	5
Supporting inclusive scientific communities: Insights from the ATBC society survey	5
Seabird presence and seasonality influence nutrient dynamics of atoll habitats	5
The eco‐evolutionary history of Madagascar presents unique challenges to tropical forest restoration	5
Seasonal plasticity in sympatric Bicyclus butterflies in a tropical forest where temperature does not predict rainfall	5
Partial recovery of primary rainforest bird communities in Amazonian secondary forests	5
Genetic inference of orchid population dynamics on different‐aged lava flows in Costa Rica	5
Changes in tropical terrestrial vertebrate communities along two anthropogenic gradients: Forest degradation and accessibility	4
Anthropogenic extinctions explain most size and trophic mismatches between large mammalian primary consumers from Amazonian and African rainforests	4
When Calves Get Vulnerable, Ocelots ( Leopardus pardalis ) Get Bold: A Camera Trap Record of Oppor	4
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Neo‐tropical felid activity patterns in relation to potential prey and intraguild competitors in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico	4
Traits That Structure Birds Following Army Ant Swarms and the Roles of Both Facilitation and Competition	4
Limited seed dispersal shapes fine‐scale spatial genetic structure in a Neotropical dioecious large‐seeded palm	4
Sampling local ant diversities and the importance of trait analyses	4
The Influence of Litter Diversity on Leaf Breakdown and the Colonization of Decomposer Communities in Subtropical Highland Grassland Streams	4
Biotropica's first open call for editorial service	4
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Population Estimate and Spatial Distribution of Capybaras in Lake Paranoá, Brasília, Brazil	4
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Season's Greetings—Diet and Its Links to Reproductive Timing of the Small‐Island Endemic Christmas Island Flying‐Fox ( Pteropus natalis	4
Soil Properties and Plant Species Identity Independently Influence Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Composition Across Lowland Tropical Forests	4
When are buttresses and stilt roots necessary for a tree in terra‐firme Amazonian forests?	4
The legacy of forest logging on organic matter inputs and storage in tropical streams	4
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One ant's trash is another ant's treasure: Army ant middens provide resources for diverse ant assemblages	4
Canopy Openings Reduce Functional Volume in Amphibian Populations of a Neotropical Forest	4
Mangrove Pollinator Functional Diversity Decreases With Patch Size and Landscape Anthropization	4
Foliar Pathogen Incidence on Woody Seedlings Across a Tropical Forest Chronosequence	4
Predatory Spiders Limit Bromeliad‐Dwelling Frog Assemblages in the Absence of Habitat Effects	4
Correction to “Patterns of Composition, Richness and Endemicity of Cyperaceae Across Open and Closed Habitats in Madagascar's Central Highlands”	4
Leaf Size and Shape Interact to Control Flammability: An Experiment With Artificial Leaves Cut From the Large‐Leaved Species Sapranthus palanga	4
Radial and vertical variation of wood nutrients in Bornean tropical forest trees	4
Spatial density patterns of herbivore response to seasonal dynamics in the tropical deciduous forest of central India	4
Physiological and Growth Responses of Tropical Dry Forest Tree Seedlings to Water and Nutrient Additions: Comparisons Between Nitrogen Fixers and Non‐Fixers	3
Quantifying Patterns of Lightning‐Caused Canopy Disturbances via Integration of Drone Imagery and Field Surveys	3
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Do Energetic Challenges Mimicking Missed Foraging Encourage Torpor Use by a Neotropical Bat?	3
Microclimate and seed bank under Pithecellobium keyense (Fabaceae) in a coastal scrubland	3
Recolonizing native wildlife facilitates exotic plant invasion into Singapore's rain forests	3
Evidence for acoustic niche partitioning depends on the temporal scale in two sympatric Bornean hornbill species	3
Snow damage in a Himalayan forest maintains the dominance of evergreen oaks	3
Latitudinal cline of flowering and fruiting phenology in Fagaceae in Asia	3

When Raptors Are Away, Opossums Will Play: Woolly Opossums as Carrion Feeders in Harpy Eagle Nests	3
Quantifying the role of termite decomposition in a mesic savanna	3
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Evolutionary history and precipitation seasonality shape niche overlap in Neotropical bat–plant pollination networks	3
High Field Pivotal Temperature of Olive Ridley Sea Turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea)	3
Effects of forest fragmentation on the weight of understory birds at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project in Amazonia	3
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Logging leaves a fingerprint on the number, size, spatial configuration and geometry of tropical forest canopy gaps	3
Greater Landscape‐Scale Forest Cover and Animal‐Mediated Seed Dispersal Syndromes Associate With Faster Recovery Rates in Restoring Tropical Andean Forests	3
Two observations of rescue behavior in wild Asian elephants	3
Succession and seasonality drive tropical butterfly assembly after an extreme hurricane	3
Heads nods and boat bobs: Behavior of Iguana iguana is affected by environment and boat traffic in riparian tropical forest	3
Thin corridors limit wildlife: Variance of tropical carnivore distribution and habitat use in a critical rainforest corridor	3
Pollination of Chamaepentas nobilis (Rubiaceae) by long‐proboscid hawkmoths in south‐central Africa: Trait mismatching and floral scent chemistry	3
Agriculturally developed areas reduce genetic connectivity for a keystone Neotropical ungulate	3
Periodic Mangrove Growth Induced by Water Salinity Fluctuations Under Tropical Monsoon Climate, Thailand	3
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Ecologic Traits Analysis for Identifying Rodent Hosts for Arenavirus and Hepacivirus in the Americas	3
Endemic island plant–herbivore interactions: Kamehameha butterfly (Nymphalidae) and Hawaiian Urticaceae	3
Value of human‐modified forests for the conservation of canopy epiphytes	3
Integrating effects of neighbor interactions for pollination and abiotic resources on coffee yield in a multi‐strata agroforest	3
Frugivory by Three Species of Lizards in Madagascar: Implication for Their Ecological Roles as Seed Dispersers	3
Effect of Local and Landscape Variables on Bird Communities in Forest‐Agricultural Mosaics in Northeast Luzon, Philippines	3
Seed removal, seed dispersers, and the allocation of tissues in Myrtaceae seeds	3
Root vascular anatomy predicts maximum growth rates in savanna trees and grasses	3
120 Years of “Lemurology”: A Qualitative Review of What We Have Learned	3
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Leaf Conditions Affect the Landing Success of Fallen Tropical Ants	3
Size and crown shape predict reproductive maturity of Carapa guianensis in upland and floodplain forests in the northeastern Amazon	3
My cave, my rules: Specialization, modularity, and topology of bat‐fly interactions in hot and cold caves from eastern South America	3
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Precipitation and Temperature‐Dependent Locomotor Performance Drive the Abundance of a Neotropical Lizard	3
Regionally unique ant assemblages associated with community‐based conservation in northwestern Ghana	3
Effects of Landscape Characteristics on Abundance of Giant Anteaters in Intensively Farmed Areas	3
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Community science enhances modelled bee distributions in a tropical Asian city	2
Sacred groves of Central India: Diversity status, carbon storage, and conservation strategies	2
Population Size and Spatial Patterns of the Endangered Tree Gigasiphon macrosiphon in Tanzania	2
Anisophylly Is Associated With Climate in the Neotropical Genus Triolena (Melastomataceae)	2
Limited genetic differentiation of Mycetomoellerius mikromelanos in Parque National Soberanía, Panama: Implications for queen dispersal	2
Complex patch geometries maximize species richness at the expense of forest specialists	2
Evolutionary diversity gradients in neotropical tree assemblages: New insights from Non‐Flooded Evergreen forests	2
Competition, Precipitation, and Temperature Shape Deviations From Scaling Laws in the Crown Allometries of Miombo Woodlands	2
Age and Sex Influence Seed Dispersal of Native and Non‐Native Plants by Lion‐Tailed Macaques	2
Guests in nests: A parallel between social plants and animals?	2
Determinants of resource use in lizard assemblages from the semiarid Caatinga, Brazil	2
Genetic inference of orchid colonization of a Costa Rican lava flow	2
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Using Acoustic Monitoring to Assess Insectivorous Bat Richness and Activity in a Sub‐Tropical Savanna	2
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Climate Heterogeneity Shapes the Diversity of Specialist Beetle Species Across Mountains in Malaysia	2
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Flower visitor networks: Reduced reproductive success driven by antagonists in a hummingbird‐pollinated species	2
Drivers affecting habitat use in Afrotropical hipposiderid and pteropodid bats	2
The effect of flight efficiency on gap‐crossing ability in Amazonian forest birds	2
Does the Cave Environment Limit Functional Diversity? Rethinking Patterns in Oniscidea Assemblages From a Neotropical Karst	2
Rainforest Fragmentation Decreases the Robustness of Plant‐Frugivore Interaction Networks	2
Structure of Epiphyte–Phorophyte Networks and Their Robustness to Species Loss in White‐Sand Ecosystems in the Amazon	2
Seed Dispersal Effectiveness of Chelonoidis carbonarius and C. denticulatus Tortoises Is Mediated by Body Size and Sex‐Differences in Tortoise Movement	2
Frog call transmission in forestry monocultures: Are there drawbacks?	2
Identifying Mozambique's most critical areas for plant conservation: An evaluation of protected areas and Important Plant Areas	2
A waterfowl seed‐dispersal network from the Neotropical region is nested and modular	2
Direct comparisons of logging and agroforestry influence on tropical mammals in Sarawak, Borneo	2
The Potential of Generalist and Disturbance‐Tolerant Seed Dispersers in the Restoration of Neotropical Degraded Areas	2
The Search for Champion Lianas: The Largest Lianas on Six Continents	2
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30 years brings changes to the arthropod community of Kibale National Park, Uganda	2
Floral Handedness in Mormodes Orchids: Revisiting Charles Darwin's Observations	2
Weathering the storm: Long‐term implications on the feeding ecology and habitat use of a frugivorous lemur following a tropical cyclone	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
Low Requirement on the Nest Site Selection Influencing the Invasion Success of House Geckos	2
Fine‐scale temporal dynamics of flower visitors sheds light on insect‐assemblage overlap between sexes in a dioecious Ecuadorian palm	2
Plant phylogenetic diversity influences arthropod communities in tropical forest restoration plots	2
Functional Diversity of Neotropical Aquatic Hyphomycetes: Insights Into Environmental Drivers	2
Animal–Plant Interactions Under Defaunation: Consequences for Amazonian Trees of Commercial Interest	2
Stemflow Dynamics in the Jamari National Forest (Brazilian Amazon): II. Solute Concentrations and Flux Dynamics	2
Announcement: Biotropica's New Subject Editors 2025	2
Mycorrhizal Barriers to the Upslope Migration of Tropical Trees	2
Urbanization Intensity, Vegetation Cover and Plant Vigor Affects Stem Galls Occurrence and Abundance in a Widely Distributed Ruderal Tropical Plant	2
Unraveling the Taxonomic, Functional, and Phylogenetic Diversity of Lizard Assemblages in Riparian Forest Areas in the Amazon–Pantanal Ecotone	2
Biotropica at the Forefront of Tropical Seed Dispersal Ecology	2
DNA‐based fungal diversity in Madagascar and arrival of the ectomycorrhizal fungi to the island	2
The Role of Protected Areas in Combating Tropical Dry Forest Loss: Insights From Kirindy Mitea National Park, Madagascar	2
Morphological, Molecular, and Isotopic Approaches to Termite Ecology: A Mangrove Case Study	2
Invasive Big‐Headed Ants and Black Rats Are Dominant Arthropod Predators Across Opposing Habitats of a Degraded Oceanic Island	2
Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of anuran assemblages across habitats and seasons in a Neotropical savanna	2
Observations and description of a rare escape mechanism in a snake: Cartwheeling in Pseudorabdion longiceps (Cantor, 1847) (Squamata, Colubridea)	2
Nectar robbing effects on pollinators of a key nectar source plant (Tecoma fulva, Bignoniaceae) in a dry tropical Andean valley	2
Long‐term fire and vegetation change in northwestern Amazonia	2
Leaf litter weevil richness increases with elevation in a tropical–temperate transitional forest in El Cielo Biosphere Reserve, northeastern Mexico	2
Drivers of sunbird‐plant interactions on Mount Cameroon: Between neutrality and niche‐based processes	2
Patterns of liana diversity and host interaction networks in selectively logged and unlogged forests of Uppangala, Western Ghats, India	2
Using the area of habitat to assess the extent of protection of India's birds	2