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Intrapopulational variation in head shape correlates with soil structure heterogeneity in a head‐first burrowing amphisbaenian, Trogonophis wiegmanni
Journal of Zoology, Volume 326, Issue 2, Page 130-139, June 2025.Morphological traits evolve to solve ecological requirements. Amphisbaenians are fossorial reptiles with different snout shapes for burrowing head‐first underground, but how these head shapes have originated is little known. Here, using 2D geometric morphometrics, we found that individual Trogonophis wiegmanni amphisbaenians inside the same population ...M. Kirchner, J. Ortega, R. García‐Roa, J. Müller, J. Martín +4 morewiley +1 more sourceEvaluating models of expert judgment to inform assessment of ecosystem viability and collapse
Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2025.Abstract
Expert judgment underpins assessment of threatened ecosystems. However, experts are often narrowly defined, and variability in their judgments may be substantial. Models built from structured elicitation with large diverse expert panels can contribute to more consistent and transparent decision‐making.Josh Dorrough, Samantha K. Travers, James Val, Mitchell L. Scott, Claudine J. Moutou, Ian Oliver +5 morewiley +1 more sourceTowards a global understanding of tree mortality
New Phytologist, Volume 245, Issue 6, Page 2377-2392, March 2025.Summary
Rates of tree mortality are increasing globally, with implications for forests and climate. Yet, how and why these trends vary globally remain unknown. Developing a comprehensive assessment of global tree mortality will require systematically integrating data from ground‐based long‐term forest monitoring with large‐scale remote sensing.International Tree Mortality Network, Cornelius Senf, Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert, Thomas A. M. Pugh, William R. L. Anderegg, Kristina J. Anderson‐Teixeira, Gabriel Arellano, Mirela Beloiu Schwenke, Barbara J. Bentz, Hans Juergen Boehmer, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Kauane Maiara Bordin, Francis Q. Brearley, Filippo Bussotti, Maxime Cailleret, J. Julio Camarero, Gherardo Chirici, Flavia R. C. Costa, Ricardo Dalagnol, Hendrik Davi, Stuart J. Davies, Sylvain Delzon, Bishnu Prasad Dhakal, Renato A. Ferreira de Lima, Marco Ferretti, Joseph B. Fontaine, Matteo Garbarino, André Luís de Gasper, Arthur Gessler, Gregory S. Gilbert, John L. Godlee, Francisco Maiato Pedro Gonçalves, Leen Govaere, Alvaro G. Gutiérrez, Ernesto Gómez Cardozo, William M. Hammond, Henrik Hartmann, Martina L. Hobi, Andrés Holz, Jürgen Homeier, Mark Joseph Hovenden, Cho‐ying Huang, Bruno Hérault, Toby Jackson, Tommaso Jucker, Alistair S. Jump, Samuli Junttila, Teja Kattenborn, Joice Klipel, Martyna M. Kotowska, Kamil Král, Nicola La Porta, Leonel Lopez‐Toledo, René López‐Camacho, Eduardo Eiji Maeda, Jesús Mallol Díaz, Emanuel H. Martin, Jordi Martínez‐Vilalta, Nate McDowell, Peter W. Moonlight, Akira S. Mori, Mohd Afzanizam Muda, Jan‐Peter Mund, Robert Muscarella, Moisés Méndez‐Toribio, Sandra C. Müller, Thomas A. Nagel, Stefan Neagu, Charles Andrew Nock, Moses Nsanyi Sainge, Michael J. O'Brien, Josep Peñuelas, George L. W. Perry, Oliver L. Phillips, Juan Manuel Posada, Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues, Anamaria Roman, Guillaume Xavier Rousseau, Nadine Katrin Ruehr, Paloma Ruiz‐Benito, Katinka X. Ruthrof, Christian Salas‐Eljatib, Tajna Sanders, Rodrigo Scarton Bergamin, Tobias Scharnweber, Mart‐Jan Schelhaas, Bernhard Schuldt, Selina Schwarz, Rupert Seidl, Ekaterina Shorohova, Ana Carolina Silva, Geert Sioen, Jarosław Socha, Krzysztof Stereńczak, Jonas Stillhard, Dejan B. Stojanović, Susanne Suvanto, Miroslav Svoboda, Martina Sánchez‐Pinillos, Andrew J. Tanentzap, Anthony R. Taylor, Fabiano Turini Farah, Giorgio Vacchiano, Alexander C. Vibrans, Alberto Vilagrosa, Emilio Vilanova, Lars T. Waser, Susan K. Wiser, Kailiang Yu, Miguel A. Zavala, Laio Zimermann Oliveira, Daniel Zuleta, Alvaro Boson de Castro‐Faria, Ernst van der Maaten, Marieke van der Maaten‐Theunissen +114 morewiley +1 more sourcePoor compliance and exemptions facilitate ongoing deforestation
Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 1, February 2025.Abstract
Many nations are struggling to reduce deforestation, despite having extensive environmental protection laws in place and commitments to international agreements that address the biodiversity and climate crises. We developed a novel framework to quantify the extent to which contemporary deforestation is being captured under national and ...Hannah Thomas, Michelle S. Ward, Jeremy S. Simmonds, Martin F. J. Taylor, Martine Maron +4 morewiley +1 more sourcePhylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa
Functional Ecology, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 181-198, January 2025.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Leaf and wood functional traits of trees are related to growth, reproduction, and survival, but the degree of phylogenetic conservatism in these relationships is largely unknown.Pablo Sanchez‐Martinez, Kyle G. Dexter, Freddie C. Draper, Chris Baraloto, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomão, Florian Wittmann, Carolina V. Castilho, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Oliver L. Phillips, William E. Magnusson, Daniel Sabatier, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Jean‐François Molino, Mariana Victória Irume, Maria Pires Martins, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, José Ferreira Ramos, Olaf S. Bánki, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Dairon Cárdenas López, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Layon O. Demarchi, Jochen Schöngart, Bruno Garcia Luize, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo, Percy Núñez Vargas, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, John Terborgh, Katia Regina Casula, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Juan Carlos Montero, Flávia R. C. Costa, Ted R. Feldpausch, Adriano Costa Quaresma, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Charles Eugene Zartman, Timothy J. Killeen, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon‐Junior, Rodolfo Vasquez, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Rafael L. Assis, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Julien Engel, Hernán Castellanos, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Ana Andrade, José Luís Camargo, William F. Laurance, Susan G. W. Laurance, Lorena Maniguaje Rincón, Juliana Schietti, Thaiane R. Sousa, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, Maria Aparecida Lopes, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Helder Lima de Queiroz, Gerardo Aymard, Roel Brienen, Pablo R. Stevenson, Alejandro Araujo‐Murakami, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Tim R. Baker, Yuri Oliveira Feitosa, Hugo F. Mogollón, Carlos A. Peres, Miles R. Silman, Leandro Valle Ferreira, José Rafael Lozada, James A. Comiskey, José Julio de Toledo, Gabriel Damasco, Nállarett Dávila, Roosevelt García‐Villacorta, Aline Lopes, Alberto Vicentini, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Alfonso Alonso, Luzmila Arroyo, Francisco Dallmeier, Vitor H. F. Gomes, David Neill, Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Janaína Costa Noronha, Daniel P. P. de Aguiar, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Yennie K. Bredin, Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Kenneth J. Feeley, Rogerio Gribel, Torbjørn Haugaasen, Joseph E. Hawes, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, John J. Pipoly III, Marcos Ríos Paredes, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Jos Barlow, Erika Berenguer, Izaias Brasil da Silva, Maria Julia Ferreira, Joice Ferreira, Paul V. A. Fine, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Carolina Levis, Juan Carlos Licona, Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra, Vincent Antoine Vos, Carlos Cerón, Flávia Machado Durgante, Émile Fonty, Terry W. Henkel, John Ethan Householder, Isau Huamantupa‐Chuquimaco, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Raquel Thomas, Doug Daly, William Milliken, Guido Pardo Molina, Toby Pennington, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Wegliane Campelo, Alfredo Fuentes, Bente Klitgaard, José Luis Marcelo Pena, J. Sebastián Tello, Corine Vriesendorp, Jerome Chave, Anthony Di Fiore, Renato Richard Hilário, Luciana de Oliveira Pereira, Juan Fernando Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas‐Torres, Tinde R. van Andel, Patricio von Hildebrand, William Balee, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza, Ricardo Zárate Gómez, Therany Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, Bruce Hoffman, André Braga Junqueira, Yadvinder Malhi, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto, Adriana Prieto, Agustín Rudas, Ademir R. Ruschel, Natalino Silva, César I. A. Vela, Stanford Zent, Egleé L. Zent, Angela Cano, Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez, Diego F. Correa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Bernardo Monteiro Flores, David Galbraith, Milena Holmgren, Michelle Kalamandeen, Guilherme Lobo, Luis Torres Montenegro, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Maihyra Marina Pombo, Hirma Ramirez‐Angulo, Maira Rocha, Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller, Maria Natalia Umaña, Geertje van der Heijden, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Cláudia Baider, Henrik Balslev, Sasha Cárdenas, Luisa Fernanda Casas, William Farfan‐Rios, Cid Ferreira, Reynaldo Linares‐Palomino, Casimiro Mendoza, Italo Mesones, Germaine Alexander Parada, Armando Torres‐Lezama, Daniel Villarroel, Roderick Zagt, Miguel N. Alexiades, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Riley P. Fortier, Karina Garcia‐Cabrera, Lionel Hernandez, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Susamar Pansini, Daniela Pauletto, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Masha van der Sande, Lourens Poorter, Hans ter Steege +214 morewiley +1 more sourcesabinaNSDM: An R package for spatially nested hierarchical species distribution modelling
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 10, Page 1796-1803, October 2024.Abstract Species distribution models have evolved to combine species‐environment interactions across multiple scales. Spatially nested hierarchical models (NSDMs) offer a promising avenue by integrating datasets and predictive models from broad to fine scales. But a user‐friendly tool to execute these models remains an important ongoing challenge.Rubén G. Mateo, Jennifer Morales‐Barbero, Alejandra Zarzo‐Arias, Herlander Lima, Virgilio Gómez‐Rubio, Teresa Goicolea +5 morewiley +1 more sourceSalamander loss alters montane stream ecosystem functioning and structure through top‐down effects
Animal Conservation, Volume 27, Issue 5, Page 722-735, October 2024.Salamanders are seriously declining worldwide and, despite being important predators in both aquatic and terrestrial environments, their effects on freshwater ecosystems are virtually unknown. We demonstrated that salamander loss could alter montane stream ecosystem functioning and structure by reducing periphyton accrual, altering algal communities ...A. Alonso, J. Bosch, J. Pérez, D. Rojo, L. Boyero +4 morewiley +1 more source