Tropibio publications

Title: Local attitudes towards conservation governance in a large tropical multiple-use Marine Protected Area in Brazil
Authors: José Gilmar Cavalcante de Oliveira Júnior, Ana Paula de Oliveira Santos, Ana Claudia Mendes Malhado, Carolina Neves Souza, Chiara Bragagnolo, Aline Olímpio dos Santos, Evelynne Letícia dos Santos Farias Cardoso de Barros, Felipe Alexandre Santos Vieira, Inaê Farias Vieira Dantas, Jacqueline Costa Aldabalde, João Vitor Campos-Silva, Johnny Antonio da Silva Lima, Júlia Tovar Verba, Mikaella Roberta dos Santos-Silva, Nidia Noemi Fabré, Norah Costa Gamarra, Richard J. Ladle, Vandick da Silva Batista
Journal: Ocean & Coastal Management

Title: Disentangling the effects of habitat fragmentation and top-down trophic cascades on small mammal assemblages on Amazonian forest islands
Authors: Ana Filipa Palmeirim, Maíra Benchimol, Marcus V. Vieira, Carlos A. Peres
Journal: Biological Conservation

Title: How taxonomic change influences forecasts of the Linnean shortfall (and what we can do about it)?
Authors: Thainá Lessa, Juliana Stropp, Joaquín Hortal, Richard J. Ladle
Journal: Journal of Biogeography

Title: At the tipping point: Can biodiversity and rural livelihoods endure uncontrolled cashew expansion in West Africa?
Authors: Patrícia Guedes, Ana Filipa Palmeirim, Filipa Monteiro, Luís Catarino, Luís Palma, Marina P. Temudo, Mohamed Henriques, Pedro Beja, Ricardo Jorge Lopes, Richard J. Ladle, Luke L. Powell
Journal: Biotropica

Title: The role of landscape context in shaping bat assemblages in African cacao plantations
Authors: Ana Filipa Palmeirim, João Soares, Raquel Oliveira, Isnaba Nhassé, Daniel Na Mone, Filipa Martins, Luís Palma, Manuel Lima
Journal: African Journal for Ecology

Title: Differences in phenology across three trophic levels between two Afrotropical sites separated by four degrees latitude
Authors: Corinna Jarrett, Ojodomo Godday Simon, Christian N. Tchana, Thaddeus Apezan Pev, Michelle Fany Meigang Kamkeng, Alain Christel Wandji, Shiiwua A. Manu, Mélanie Adèle Tchoumbou, Barbara Helm, Luke L. Powell, Chima J. Nwaogu
Journal: Ecology and Evolution

Title: Small mammal diversity across different habitat types in an Upper Guinean Forest National Park
Authors: Palmeirim AF, Soares J, Oliveira R, Nhassé I, Na Mone D, Martins F, Palma L, Lima M
Journal: African Journal of Ecology

Title: Insectivorous bat activity dataset across different land-use types in the Islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, Central West Africa
Authors: Palmeirim AF, Araújo-Fernandes AC, Castro-Fernandes AS, Guedes P, Cassari J, Mata VA, Yoh N, Rocha R, Martínez-Arribas J, Alves-Martins F 
Journal: Biodiversity Data Journal

Title: Effects of forest conversion into cashew orchards on seed- and fruit-animal interaction rates in West Africa
Authors: Nhassé I, Oliveira R, Na Mone D, Soares J, Lopes-Lima M, Palmeirim AF
Journal: Biotropica

Title: Use of native and human-modified habitats by different mammal guilds in West Africa
Authors: Rossinyol-Fernàndez A, Dabo D, dos Reis Silva F, Oliveira R, Seck S, Rainho A, Cabeza M, Palmeirim AF
Journal: Global Ecology and Conservation

Title: Assessing the political vulnerability of National Parks in sub-Saharan Africa using data on digital trends and engagement
Authors: Azevedo K, Alves-Martins F, Martinez-Arribas J, Correia RA, Malhado AC, Ladle RJ
Journal: People and Nature

Title: Reassessment of the conservation status of Crocidura fingui, a shrew endemic to Príncipe Island, Central Africa
Authors: Alves JCT, dos Santos Y, Guedes P, Rocha R
Journal: Oryx

Title: Sampling completeness changes perceptions of continental scale climate–species richness relationships in odonates
Authors: Alves-Martins F, Stropp J,  Juen L,  Ladle RJ,  Lobo J M,  Martinez-ArribasJ,  Júnior PDM, Brasil LS,  Ferreira VRS,  Bastos RC,  Córdoba-Aguilar A,  Medina-Espinoza EF,  Dutra S,  Vilela DS,  Cordero-Rivera A,  del Palacio A,  Ramírez A,  Carvalho-Soares AA,  Farias ABS …  Hortal J
Journal: Journal of Biogeography

Title: Quantifying spatial ignorance in the effort to collect terrestrial fauna in Namibia, Africa
Authors: Lessa T, Alves-Martins F, Martinez-Arribas J, Correia RA, Mendelsohn J, Fabiano EC, Angombe ST, Malhado AC, Ladle RJ
Journal: Ecological Indicators

Title: Using social media and machine learning to understand sentiments towards Brazilian National Parks
Authors: Souza CN, Martínez-Arribas J, Correia RA, Almeida JAGR, Ladle RJ, Vaz AS, Malhado AC
Journal: Biological Conservation 
Dataset

2023

Title: The last Afromontane forests in Angola are threatened by fires
Authors: Powell LL, Vaz Pinto P, Mills MSL, Baptista NL, Costa K, Dijkstra KB, Gomes AL, Guedes P, Júlio T, Monadjem A, Palmeirim AF, Russo V, Melo M
Journal: Nature Ecology & Evolution

Title: Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature
Authors: Guedes P, Alves-Martins F, Martinez-Arribas J, Chatterjee S, Santos AMC, Lewin A, Bako L, Webala PW, Correia RA, Rocha R, Ladle RJ 
Journal: Nature Ecology & Evolution
Dataset

Title: Phylogenetic relationships of the West African mud turtle (Pelusios castaneus) on the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, West Central Africa
Authors: Guedes P, dos Santos Y, Matilde E, Alves J, Rato C, Rocha R
Journal: Amphibia-Reptilia

Title: Not all farms are created equal: Shady African cocoa farms promote a richer bat fauna
Authors: Ferreira DF, Darling A, Jarrett A, Atagana PJ, Sandjo PR, Taedoumg H, Welch AJ, Rebelo H, Powell LL
Journal: Biological Conservation

Title: Birds and bats enhance yields in Afrotropical cacao agroforests only under high tree-level shade cover
Authors: Ferreira DF, Jarrett C, Wandji AC, Atagana PJ, Rebelo H, Maas B, Powell LL
Journal: Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Title: EU deforestation law overlooks emerging crops
Authors: Powell LL., Capela J, Guedes P, Beja P
Journal: Science

Title: Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research
Authors: Carvalho RL, Resende AF, Barlow J, França FM, Moura MR, Maciel R, Alves-Martins F, Shutt J, Nunes CA, Elias F, Silveira JM, Stegmann L, Baccaro FB, Juen L, Schietti J, Aragão L, Berenguer E, Castello L, Costa FRC, Guedes ML, Leal CG, Lees AC, Isaac V, Nascimento RO, Phillips OL, Schmidt FA, Ter Steege H, Vaz-de-Mello F, Venticinque EM, Vieira ICG, Zuanon J, The Synergize Consortium, Ferreira J
Journal: Current Biology

Title: Biocultural aspects of species extinctions
Authors: Ladle RJ, Alves-Martins F, Malhado ACM, Reyes-García V, Courchamp F, Di Minin E, Roll U, Jari´c I, Correia RA
Journal: Cambridge Prisms: Extinction

Title: Flagship individuals in biodiversity conservation
Authors: Jarić I, Normande IC, Arbieu U, Courchamp F, Crowley SL, Jeschke JM, Roll U, Sherren K, Thomas-Walters L, Veríssimo D, Ladle RJ
Journal: Frontiers in Ecology and Environment

Title: Dung removal increases under higher dung beetle functional diversity regardless of grazing intensification
Authors: Noriega JA, Hortal J, de Castro-Arrazola I, Alves-Martins F … Santos AMC
Journal: Nature Communications

2022

Title: Emergent properties of species-habitat networks in an insular forest landscape
Authors: Palmeirim AF, Emer C, Benchimol M, Storck-Tonon D, Bueno AS, Peres CA
Journal: Science Advances

Title: Habitat Quality, Not Patch Size, Modulates Lizard Responses to Habitat Loss and Fragmentation in the Southwestern Amazon
Authors: Silva DJ, Palmeirim AF,  Santos-Filho M,  Sanaiotti TM, Peres CA
Journal: Journal of Herpetology

Title: Integration of Mark–Recapture and Acoustic Detections for Unbiased Population Estimation in Animal Communities
Authors: Crinan J, Haydon DT, Morales JM, Ferreira DF, Forzi FA, Welch AJ, Powell LL, Matthiopoulos J
Journal: Ecology

Title: Odonates in warm regions of south america largely do not follow Rapoport’s rule
Authors: Miguel TB, Calvão LB, Alves-Martins F, Batista JD, Rodrigues ME, Guillermo-Ferreia R, De Marco Júnior P, Juen L
Journal: Biodiversity and Conservation

2021

Title: Forest area predicts all dimensions of small mammal and lizard diversity in Amazonian insular forest fragments
Authors: Palmeirim AF, Farneda FZ, Vieira MV, Peres CA
Journal: Landscape Ecology
 
Title: Impacts of hydropower on the habitat of jaguars and tigers
Authors: Palmeirim AF & Gibson L
Journal: Communications Biology

Title: High resource overlap and small dietary differences are widespread in food‐limited warbler (Parulidae) communities
Authors: Kent CM, Huh KM, Hunter SC, Judson K, Powell LL, Sherry TW
Journal: Ibis 

Title: Patterns of bird song evolution on islands support the character release hypothesis in tropical but not in temperate latitudes
Authors: Robert A, Melo M, Lengagne T, Julien S, Gomez D, Doutrelant C
Journal: Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Title: Evolution of vocal performance and song complexity in island birds
Authors: Robert A, Lengagne T, Melo M, Gomez D, Doutrelant C
Journal: Journal of Avian Biology