Anthony Di Fiore

TL;DR: A slow shift to a more dry‐affiliated Amazonia is underway, with changes in compositional dynamics consistent with climate‐change drivers, but yet to significantly impact whole‐community composition.

TL;DR: Differences in gut bacterial beta diversity between the captive and wild state were observed for most of the taxa surveyed, except the even-toed ungulates, and beta diversity variation was also strongly influenced by host taxonomic group, diet type, and gut fermentation physiology.

TL;DR: Genetic data is used to test whether Miocene or Plio‐Pleistocene processes may explain capuchin species’ present distributions, and to consider three possible scenarios to explain widespread sympatry.

TL;DR: It is found that dominance of forest function is even more concentrated in a few species than is dominance of tree abundance, with only ≈1% of Amazon tree species responsible for 50% of carbon storage and productivity.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that mammalian gut microbiome plasticity in response to dietary shifts over both the lifespan of an individual host and the evolutionary history of a given host species is constrained by host physiological evolution, and the gut microbiome cannot be considered separately from host physiology when describing host nutritional strategies and the emergence of host dietary niches.