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
Detecting aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity in a tropical estuary using environmental DNA	25
On the floristic identity of Amazonian vegetation types	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
Gamma, alpha, and beta diversity of ant assemblages response to a gradient of forest cover in human‐modified landscape in Brazilian Amazon	11
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
Different elevational environments dictate contrasting patterns of niche evolution in NeotropicalPithecopustreefrog species	10
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
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
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
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
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
Drought‐induced reductions in plant defenses: Insights from extrafloral nectaries in the Caatinga dry forest	6
Even small forest patches increase bee visits to flowers in an oil palm plantation landscape	6
Fruit trees drive small‐scale movement of elephants in Kibale National Park, Uganda	6
Insights into human‐wildlife coexistence through temporal activity pattern overlaps in a neglected tropical forest in India	6
Leaf litter decomposition in tropical freshwater swamp forests is slower in swamp than non‐swamp conditions	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
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
Influence of avocado orchard landscapes on amphibians and reptiles in the trans‐Mexican volcanic belt	6
Spatial pattern of tree diversity and impacts of ecological disturbances on forest structure in tropical deciduous forests of Central India	6
Interactions of the influences of habitat protection, habitat heterogeneity, and periodic flooding on waterbirds of the lower Paraná River, Argentina	6
Interplay of environmental cues and wood density in the vegetative and reproductive phenology of seasonally dry tropical forest trees	6
Forest fires facilitate growth of herbaceous bamboos in central Amazonia	6
Patterns and controls on island‐wide aboveground biomass accumulation in second‐growth forests of Puerto Rico	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
Environmental filtering and deforestation shape frog assemblages in Amazonia: An empirical approach assessing species abundances and functional traits	6
Butterfly and moth communities differ in their response to habitat structure in rainforests of Mount Cameroon	6
Litter‐trapping tank bromeliads in five different forests: Carbon and nutrient pools and fluxes	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
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
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
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
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