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Fire is a crucial factor in maintaining the biodiversity, structure, and ecosystem functions of tropical savannas. However, the role of fire in this ecosystem is complex and can vary across different climates and soil conditions. Worldwide, there is a recognized need to apply fire management to protect savanna ecosystem services, such as water resources, and to safeguard society from wild…
Widespread fragmentation of Amazon tropical forests magnifies the compounding effects of climate change and human disturbances and threatens one of the Earth's most diverse and important ecosystems. Fragmentation causes natural disturbances such as droughts, heat waves, and windthrows to interact in new ways with human-caused changes to land use, climate, fire, and defaunation along vulne…
Humans have altered the fundamental processes that maintain biodiversity by converting natural land cover for human uses, triggering Earth's sixth mass extinction. The effects of land cover change are arguably most acute in freshwater ecosystems, where aquatic insects have experienced precipitous global declines disproportional to other taxa. Yet despite decades of research, detection of …
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Habitat loss and modification have been pointed out as the main drivers of biodiversity loss. Such biodiversity decline have profound cascading effects on the abundance, composition and ecology of fauna and flora, affecting species interactions and affecting ecological function and services. These impacts can affect human health and well-being through changes in disease regulation service…
Understanding the organization of biodiversity on Earth has puzzled ecologists and biogeographers for centuries. For a long time, only part of these patterns around the globe was explained by deterministic processes related to environmental filters related to functional traits and biotic interactions, while much of the variation that disobeyed these rules were termed to be rather stochast…
The Dry Diagonal (DD) contains a number of environments including the Caatinga and Cerrado that span over 1/3 the area of Brazil, as well as the Chaco of northern Argentina. Because of its perceived lower biodiversity for many taxa than in better known biomes such as the Amazon basin and the Atlantic forest, evolutionary processes in the DD have received much less attention from biologis…
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Humans have altered the fundamental processes that maintain biodiversity by converting natural land cover for human uses, triggering Earth's sixth mass extinction. The effects of land cover change are arguably most acute in freshwater ecosystems, where aquatic insects have experienced precipitous global declines disproportional to other taxa. Yet despite decades of research, detection of …
Calliphoridae (Insecta, Diptera, Oestroidea) is a family of flies with more than 1,500 species distributed worldwide and at least 70 with occurrence in neotropics. It has been intriguingly observed that closely related calliphorid species have very different feeding habits. The interest in studying the evolution of feeding habits in these Diptera, in particular, is due to the appearance o…
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Changes in vegetation resulting from natural tree mortality, deforestation or forest fires may alter local animal assemblages, favoring the colonization of forest edges by species associated with open habitats and reducing occupancy by forest specialists. Such changes in animal occupancy patterns may reshape animal-plant interaction networks such that certain interactions are lost while n…
Calliphoridae, also known as blow flies, gain importance in public and animal health considering that several species can be mechanical vectors of a wide range of pathogens since they frequent inhospitable environments; additionally, some species are parasites (Marcondes and Thyssen, 2017). It has been observed that closely related blow fly species have very different eating habits. The i…
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