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Underrepresentation of bats in Africa's protected areas

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 1, February 2026.
Abstract Biodiversity is severely threatened globally, with habitat loss and other human pressures accelerating species extinctions. Protected areas (PAs) are a critical conservation tool; however, their effectiveness in safeguarding many taxa, such as bats, remains unclear.
Cecilia Montauban   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intraspecific plant chemodiversity at plot level has contrasting effects on arthropod functional groups

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, Volume 39, Issue 12, Page 3732-3750, December 2025.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Plant chemistry mediates interactions between plants and their environment. While intraspecific chemodiversity at the individual plant level is well studied, the effects of chemodiversity at the plant community level on arthropod interactions need more attention.
Lina Ojeda‐Prieto   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comportamento de Índices de Diversidade na Composição da Arborização de Ruas

open access: yesFloresta e Ambiente
RESUMO Nesta pesquisa analisou-se o comportamento de índices de diversidade frente a diferentes cenários de composição com riqueza de espécies e uniformidade distintas, a influência do espaçamento de plantio na determinação dos valores desses índices e o
Rogerio Bobrowski, Daniela Biondi
doaj   +1 more source

Role of forest edges and other seminatural linear landscape features in structuring wild bee habitat connectivity in intensively managed landscapes

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 6, December 2025.
Abstract Pollinator conservation schemes typically focus on conserving existing, restoring degraded, or creating new wild bee habitats. Their effectiveness depends on dispersal corridors enabling habitat colonization by bees. However, the role of seminatural linear landscape structures (LLS) in connecting pollinator communities across intensively ...
Markus A. K. Sydenham   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estudio cualitativo del fitoplancton del embalse Río Hondo (Argentina). II

open access: yesLilloa, 2000
Como resultado del estudio del fitoplancton superficial de la zona limnética y de las desembocaduras de los ríos Salí y Gastona del embalse Río Hondo (Argentina), para pre-zafra y zafra azucarera de los años 1994-1995, se determinaron un total de 112 ...
V. Mirande   +2 more
doaj  

Diversidad de helechos y licopodios en el Área Privada de Conservación Talhpan, Papantla, Veracruz, México

open access: yesPolibotánica, 2019
El conocimiento de la pteridoflora de la zona norte de Veracruz es escaso, y más aún cuando se habla de la riqueza de helechos y licopodios en las zonas altitudinalmente bajas.
Fernando Barrios-Morales   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Almost Seven Decades of Coastal Bird Community Recovery Across Three European Seas

open access: yesGlobal Change Biology, Volume 31, Issue 11, November 2025.
Our study examined long‐term trends in coastal bird communities across three European seas from 1957 to 2024. We found that bird abundance and diversity have increased over time, although these improvements vary among regions and sites. Protected areas—particularly strictly protected ones—play an important role in supporting these recoveries, but ...
Carlos Cano‐Barbacil   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scale‐Dependent Effects of Landscape Heterogeneity on Butterfly Functional and Taxonomic Diversity in Andean Urban Parks

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 10, October 2025.
Local vegetation structure and landscape composition significantly affect butterfly diversity, underscoring the role of habitat quality in shaping butterfly assemblages ABSTRACT Urbanization poses a significant threat to biodiversity, reducing native species diversity in cities.
Nathali Coral‐Acosta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can taxonomic richness be used as a surrogate for phylogenetic distinctness indices for ranking areas for conservation?

open access: yesAnimal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2007
¿Puede utilizarse la riqueza taxonómica como un indicativo de diferenciación filogenética para evaluar áreas de conservación? Se han propuesto varios métodos para evaluar prioridades de conservación de áreas. En este trabajo se compara el funcionamiento
M. Pérez-Losada, K. A. Crandall
doaj   +1 more source

Navigating the seven seas of arthropod collection protocols: Metabarcoding arthropod diversity in a tropical forest

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 10, Page 2395-2407, October 2025.
Abstract Insects and other arthropods represent one of the most diverse groups of life on Earth, with an estimated 70% of species awaiting discovery. Advances in DNA‐based tools have accelerated species discovery, while high‐throughput sequencing has enabled large‐scale biodiversity surveys.
Daniel Souto‐Vilarós   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

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