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Laura M. Cisneros
Researcher at University of Connecticut
Publications - 24
Citations - 1018
Laura M. Cisneros is an academic researcher from University of Connecticut. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Species richness. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 23 publications receiving 751 citations. Previous affiliations of Laura M. Cisneros include Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment.
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Creation of forest edges has a global impact on forest vertebrates
Marion Pfeifer,Marion Pfeifer,Veronique Lefebvre,Carlos A. Peres,Cristina Banks-Leite,Oliver R. Wearn,Charles J. Marsh,Stuart H. M. Butchart,Stuart H. M. Butchart,Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez,Jos Barlow,Alexis Cerezo,Laura M. Cisneros,Neil D'Cruze,Deborah Faria,Adam S. Hadley,S.M. Harris,Brian T. Klingbeil,Urs G. Kormann,Luc Lens,Guido Fabian Medina-Rangel,José Carlos Morante-Filho,Pieter Ignatius Olivier,Sandra L. Peters,Anna M. Pidgeon,Danilo Bandini Ribeiro,Christoph Scherber,L. Schneider-Maunoury,Matthew J. Struebig,J. Nicolás Urbina-Cardona,James I. Watling,Michael R. Willig,Eric M. Wood,Robert M. Ewers +33 more
TL;DR: A global dataset on species responses to fragmentation and a statistical approach for quantifying edge impacts in heterogeneous landscapes are assembled to quantify edge-determined changes in abundance of 1,673 vertebrate species and highlight the pervasive ability of forest edges to restructure ecological communities on a global scale.
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Effects of human‐modified landscapes on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic dimensions of bat biodiversity
TL;DR: Characteristics of a human-modified landscape that promote taxonomic (TD), functional (FD) and phylogenetic (PD) dimensions of bat biodiversity are identified to identify the aspects of assemblages that are most affected by forest conversion and fragmentation.
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Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies.
James I. Watling,Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez,Marion Pfeifer,Lander Baeten,Cristina Banks-Leite,Laura M. Cisneros,Rebecca Fang,A. Caroli Hamel‐Leigue,Thibault Lachat,Thibault Lachat,Inara R. Leal,Luc Lens,Hugh P. Possingham,Dinarzarde C. Raheem,Danilo Bandini Ribeiro,Eleanor M. Slade,J. Nicolás Urbina-Cardona,Eric M. Wood,Lenore Fahrig +18 more
TL;DR: The habitat amount hypothesis predicts that species richness in plots of fixed size is more strongly and positively related to the amount of habitat around the plot than to patch size or isolation, and habitat amount better predicts species density than patch size and isolation combined.
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Multiple dimensions of bat biodiversity along an extensive tropical elevational gradient
Laura M. Cisneros,Kevin R. Burgio,Lindsay M. Dreiss,Brian T. Klingbeil,Bruce D. Patterson,Steven J. Presley,Michael R. Willig +6 more
TL;DR: Greater than expected phylogenetic, diet and foraging strategy dispersion at high elevations were associated with the loss of phylogenetically or functionally redundant species, suggesting that increasing interspecific competition with decreasing productivity resulted in competitive exclusion.
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Tropical metacommunities along elevational gradients: effects of forest type and other environmental factors
Michael R. Willig,Steven J. Presley,Christopher P. Bloch,Ivan Castro-Arellano,Laura M. Cisneros,Christopher L. Higgins,Brian T. Klingbeil +6 more
TL;DR: This article used a metacommunity framework to integrate species-specifi c responses to environmental gradients as an approach to detect emergent patterns at the mesoscale in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico.