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International Journal of ZoologyThe native savannas of eastern Colombia cover about six percent of the Neotropical savannas. Within these 17 million hectares, the current composition of nonflying mammals evidenced colonization from Andean, Guyanese, and Amazonian speciation centers and
Federico Mosquera-Guerra +4 more
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Detecting mass mortality events in wildlife populations. [PDF]
Conserv BiolAbstract Reports in the literature of mass mortality events (MMEs) involving diverse animal taxa are increasing. Yet, many likely go unobserved due to imperfect detection and infrequent sampling. MMEs involving small, cryptic species, for instance, can be difficult to detect even during the event, and degradation and scavenging of carcasses can make ...
Brunner JL, Calabrese JM.
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Inhibitor-induced dimerization mediates lufotrelvir resistance in mutants of SARS-CoV-2 3C-like protease. [PDF]
Protein SciAbstract The emergence of SARS‐CoV‐2 and other lethal coronaviruses has prompted extensive research into targeted antiviral treatments, particularly focusing on the viral 3C‐like protease (3CLpro) due to its essential role for viral replication. However, the rise of drug resistance mutations poses threats to public health and underscores the need to ...
Wang G +9 more
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Scalar Field Evolution at Background and Perturbation Levels for a Broad Class of Potentials
Fortschritte der Physik, Volume 71, Issue 10-11, November 2023., 2023 Abstract In this paper, a non‐interacting scalar field cosmology with an arbitrary potential using the f‐deviser method that relies on the differentiability properties of the potential is investigated. Using this alternative mathematical approach, a unified dynamical system analysis at a scalar field's background and perturbation levels with arbitrary ...
Genly Leon +5 more
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Identifying socioeconomic and biophysical factors driving forest loss in protected areas
Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 4, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Protected areas (PAs) are a commonly used strategy to confront forest conversion and biodiversity loss. Although determining drivers of forest loss is central to conservation success, understanding of them is limited by conventional modeling assumptions.
Kathryn A. Powlen +3 more
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Ecohydrology, Volume 16, Issue 4, June 2023., 2023 Abstract The páramos are Neotropical alpine tundra‐like ecosystems that play a crucial role as biodiversity hotspots and also act as water sources for the inter‐Andean regions and cities. Improving our understanding of hydrological processes, here evapotranspiration, is crucial, especially in the context of global changes.
Barbara Meyers +2 more
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Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness
Journal of Ecology, Volume 111, Issue 6, Page 1308-1326, June 2023., 2023 Collectively, these results demonstrate that evenness is an integral component of the relationship between biodiversity and productivity, and that the attenuating effect of richness on forest productivity might be partly explained by low evenness in speciose communities.
Iris Hordijk +220 more
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Successional shifts in tree demographic strategies in wet and dry Neotropical forests
Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 32, Issue 6, Page 1002-1014, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Aim Tropical forest succession and associated changes in community composition are driven by species demographic rates, but how demographic strategies shift during succession remains unclear. Our goal was to identify generalities in demographic trade‐offs and successional shifts in demographic strategies across Neotropical forests that cover a
Nadja Rüger +24 more
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Molecular Ecology, Volume 32, Issue 12, Page 3182-3199, June 2023., 2023 Abstract The tropical Andes are one of the most important biodiversity hotspots on Earth, yet our understanding of how their biotas have responded to Quaternary climatic oscillations is extraordinarily limited and the alternative models proposed to explain their demographic dynamics have been seldom formally evaluated. Here, we test the hypothesis that
Joaquín Ortego +5 more
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Disrupted montane forest recovery hinders biodiversity conservation in the tropical Andes
Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 32, Issue 5, Page 793-808, May 2023., 2023 Abstract Aim Andean montane forests are biodiversity hotspots and large carbon stores and they provide numerous ecosystem services. Following land abandonment after centuries of forest clearing for agriculture in the Andes, there is an opportunity for forest recovery. Field‐based studies show that forests do not always recover. However, large‐scale and
Tina Christmann +5 more
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