Bia de Arruda Almeida

TL;DR: The results show that functional diversity and composition are partially coupled, suggesting that although functional diversity is influenced by the environmental filtering of particular traits, it also reflects other ecological mechanisms (e.g. competitive interactions among species).

TL;DR: It is suggested that considering subsets of the community with high similarity among species, as passerines, provides a better tool for understanding responses to forest fragmentation due to the regularity of specialists in continuous forest, which could highly affect functionality in forest fragments.

TL;DR: Assessment of the effects of climate change on the native distribution of the Amazonian fish Colossoma macropomum as well as on its invasiveness across river basins of South America shows that short and long-term management actions are required for the conservation of natural stocks and protecting native fish fauna in the climate refuges of the invaded regions.

TL;DR: Investigation of trends in wintering and breeding waterbirds within and between eleven wetlands in Mediterranean Spain uses a 28‐year time‐series to highlight that annual changes in the composition of waterbird communities have different effects on their functional diversity, and are influenced by opposing community assembly mechanisms.