Sítio Parque Nacional do Catimbau

2020

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Carvalho et al 2020 - Ants as providers of ecosystem services in Caatinga: How to inform society about ecological research. Journal of Environmental Analysis and Progress

 

Oliveira et al 2020 - Plant protection services mediated by extrafloral nectaries decline with aridity but are not influenced by chronic anthropogenic disturbance in Brazilian Caatinga. Journal of Ecology

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Menezes et al 2020 - Introduced goats reduce diversity and biomass of herbs in Caatinga dry forest. Land Degradation & Development

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Gonçalves et al 2020 - The palm Syagrus coronata proliferates and structures vascular epiphyte assemblages in a human-modified landscape of the Caatinga. Journal of Tropical Ecology

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Alves et al 2020 - Landscape-scale patterns and drivers of novel mammal communities in a human-modified protected area. Landscape Ecol

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Andrade et al 2020 - Rainfall reduction increases insect herbivory in tropical herb communities. Journal of Vegetation Scencie

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Trindade et al 2020 - Water availability mediates functional shifts across ontogenetic stages in a regenerating seasonally dry tropical forest. Journal of Vegetation Scencie

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Knoechelmann et al 2020 - Leaf-cutting ants negatively impact the regeneration of the Caatinga dry forest across abandoned pastures. Biotropica

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Pereira et al 2020 - Intense mycorrhizal root colonization in a human-modified landscape of the Caatinga dry forest. Forest Ecology and Management

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Silva et al 2020 - Land use, soil properties and climate variables influence the nematode communities in the Caatinga dry forest. Applied Soil Ecology

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2019

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Szyja et al 2019 - Neglected but Potent Dry Forest Players: Ecological Role and Ecosystem Service Provision of Biological Soil Crusts in the Human-Modified Caatinga. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

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Silva et al 2019 - Divergent responses of plant reproductive strategies to chronic anthropogenic disturbance and aridity in the Caatinga dry forest. Science of the Total Environment

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Otálora-Ardila et al 2019 - Thermally-assisted monitoring of bat abundance in an exceptional cave in Brazil’s Caatinga drylands. Acta Chiropterologica

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Zorger et al 2019 - Functional organization of woody plant assemblages along precipitation and human disturbance gradients in a seasonally dry tropical forest. Biotropica​

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Silva et al 2019 - Spatiotemporal responses of ant communities across a disturbance gradient: the role of behavioral traits. Insectes Sociaux​

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Camara et al 2019 - Anthropogenic disturbance and rainfall variation threaten the stability of plant–ant interactions in the Brazilian Caatinga. Ecography

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Oliveira et al 2019 - Effects of increasing aridity and chronic anthropogenic disturbance on seed dispersal by ants in Brazilian Caatinga. Journal of Animal Ecology

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Santos et al 2019 - Frugivory by birds in four species of Cactaceae in the Caatinga, a dry forest in Brazil. Iheringia, Série Zoologia

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Las-casas et al 2019 -  The avifauna of the Catimbau National Park, an important protected area in the Brazilian semiarid. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia.

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Silva et al 2019 -  Extrafloral nectar as a driver of ant community spatial structure along disturbance and rainfall gradients in Brazilian dry forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology

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Pinho et al 2019 - Plant functional assembly is mediated by rainfall and soil conditions in a seasonally dry tropical forest. Basic and Applied Ecology

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Neri et al 2019 - Green versus green? Adverting potential conflicts between windpower generation and biodiversity conservation in Brazil. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation

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Ribeiro et al 2019 - Functional diversity and composition of Caatinga woody flora are negatively impacted by chronic anthropogenic disturbance. Journal of Ecology

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Silva et al 2019 - Climate change will reduce suitable Caatinga dry forest habitat for endemic plants with disproportionate impacts on specialized reproductive strategies. PLOS ONE

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Souza et al 2019 - Multiple drivers of aboveground biomass in a human-modified landscape of the Caatinga dry forest. Forest Ecology and Management.

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Specht et al 2019 - Socioeconomic differences among resident, users and neighbour populations of a protected area in the Brazilian dry forest. Journal of Environmental Management.

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2018

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Ciência & Cultura: Caatinga Special Edition ( In Portuguese)

   - Tabarelli, M. & Leal, I - Apresentação 

   - Tabarelli, M; Leal, I; Scarano, F.R; Silva, J.M.C. - Caatinga: legado, trajetória e desafios rumo à                sustentabilidade

   - Garda, A.A; Lion, Lima, S.M.Q; Mesquita, D.O; Araujo, H. F.P; Napoli, M.F.- Os animais vertebrados           do bioma Caatinga

   - Leal, I; Lopes, A.V; Machado, I.C; Tabarelli, M.- Interações planta-animal na Caatinga: visão geral           e perspectivas futuras

   - Albuquerque, U.P; Melo, F.P.L. - Socioecologia da Caatinga

 - Fonseca, C.R; Antongiovanni, M; Matsumoto, M; Enrico Bernard, E; Venticinque, E.M.  - Oportunidades de conservação na Caatinga

   - Fernandes, M.F; Queiroz, L.P. - Vegetação e flora da Caatinga

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Arnan et al. 2018 - A framework for deriving measures of chronic anthropogenic disturbance: Surrogate, direct, single and multi-metric indices in Brazilian Caatinga

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Arnan et al. 2018 - Increased anthropogenic disturbance and aridity reduce phylogenetic and functional diversity of ant communities in Caatinga dry forest.

 

Barbier et al. 2018 - Structure and composition of Nycteribiidae and Streblidae flies on bats along anv environmental gradient in Northeastern Brazil

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Domingos-Melo et al. 2018 - Beyond taxonomy: anther skirt is a diagnostic character that provides specialized noctuid pollination in Marsdenia megalantha (Asclepiadoideae–Apocynaceae)

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Sfair et al. 2018 - Chronic human disturbance affects plant trait distribution in a seasonally dry tropical forest 

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Silva et al. 2018 - Bryophyte richness of soil islands on rocky outcrops is not driven by island size or habitat heterogeneity 

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Siqueira et al. 2018 - Human disturbance promotes herbivory by leaf-cutting ants in the Caatinga dry forest.

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2017

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Barbier et al 2017 - From the Atlantic Forest to the borders of Amazonia: species richness, distribution, and host association of ectoparasitic flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae and Streblidae) in northeastern Brazil 

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Camara et al 2017. Effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance and rainfall on the specialization of antplant mutualistic networks in the Caatinga, a Brazilian dry forest. Journal of Animal Ecology. 

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Rito et al. 2017 - Euphorbiaceae responses to chronic anthropogenic disturbances in Caatinga vegetation: from species proliferation to biotic homogenization. Plant Ecology.

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Rito et al 2017 - Precipitation mediates the effect of human disturbance on the Brazilian Caatinga vegetation. Journal of Ecology.

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Siqueira et al. 2017 - Leaf-cutting ant populations profit from human disturbances in tropical dry
forest in Brazil. Journal of Tropical Ecology.

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2016

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Oliveira et al. 2016 - Chronic anthropogenic disturbance as a secondary driver of ant community structure: interactions with soil type in Brazilian Caatinga. Environmental Conservation

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Ito et al. 2016 - What is for dinner? First report of human blood in the diet of the hairy-legged vampire bat Diphylla ecaudata 

 

Ribeiro-Neto et al. 2016 - Chronic anthropogenic disturbance causes homogenization of plant and ant communities in the Brazilian Caatinga. Biodiversity and Conservation

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Ribeiro et al. 2016 - Phylogenetic impoverishment of plantcommunities following chronic humandisturbances in the Brazilian Caatinga. Ecology

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2015

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Leal et al. 2015a - The Benefits of Myrmecochory: A Matter of Stature. Biotropica

 

Leal et al. 2015b - Disturbance Winners or Losers? Plants Bearing Extrafloral Nectaries in Brazilian Caatinga. Biotropica

 

Ribeiro et al. 2015 - Chronic anthropogenic disturbance drives thebiological impoverishment of

the Brazilian Caatingavegetation. Journal of Applied Ecology