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The litter-sifting lifestyle: Capturing ant diversity on Middle American mountains

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15 June 2018
Fidel Vega, Saslaya National Park, Nicaragua, May 2011. Photo by Michael Branstetter.

 

By John Longino

MIGUEL! The shout echoes through the forest. It is dawn, in a cloud forest on an isolated group of mountains in eastern...

The challenge of modeling niches and distributions for data‐poor species

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22 May 2018
Optimal and default Maxent models for the Malagasy rodent Eliurus majori (logistic output). Results correspond to the unfiltered dataset (top) and filtered dataset (bottom), and three ways of determining model settings: AICc (left), sequential criteria based on...

New Subject Editor: Camila Ribas

My scientific career is motivated by understanding what drives biological diversification and how biodiversity is maintained, or lost, through time. Although started from an interest in genetics and evolution, my research has been approaching practical questions related to...

Introduced megafauna are rewilding the Anthropocene

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16 May 2018
A wild donkey (Equus asinus) in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona. Photograph by Michael Lundgren.

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By Erick Lundgren et al. 

The world was once home to an astounding diversity of...

Wildfire–vegetation dynamics affect predictions of climate change impact on bird communities

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16 May 2018
Figure 1. Bird species assemblage were predicted using the spatially-explicit species assemblage modelling framework – SESAM – that applies successive filters to constrained predictions of richness and composition obtained by stacking species distribution models that...

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