National Science Foundation (NSF)

• Abstract

  Humans have altered the fundamental processes that maintain biodiversity by converting natural land cover for human uses, triggering Earth's sixth mass extinction. The effects of land cover change are arguably most acute in freshwater ecosystems, where aquatic insects have experienced precipitous global declines disproportional to other taxa. Yet despite decades of research, detection of …

  BoCP Design: US-China-São Paulo: functional biodiversity in streams on a changing planet in tropical, subtropical, and temperate climates, AP.R

• Abstract

  Understanding the organization of biodiversity on Earth has puzzled ecologists and biogeographers for centuries. For a long time, only part of these patterns around the globe was explained by deterministic processes related to environmental filters related to functional traits and biotic interactions, while much of the variation that disobeyed these rules were termed to be rather stochast…

  Understanding the role of stochasticity in metacommunity assembly under global changes, AP.R

• Abstract

  Habitat loss and modification have been pointed out as the main drivers of biodiversity loss. Such biodiversity decline have profound cascading effects on the abundance, composition and ecology of fauna and flora, affecting species interactions and affecting ecological function and services. These impacts can affect human health and well-being through changes in disease regulation service…

  Land use change, ecosystem resilience and zoonotic spillover risk, AP.R

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

• RNA isolation from the seed rain of six animal-dispersed plants in experimental forest regeneration patches, BP.TT
• Seed rain sampling and germination of six animal-dispersed plants in experimental forest regeneration patches, BP.TT
• Effect of landscape context on small mammal's community in old growth and restored forest fragments, BP.TT

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)