Cláudia Baider

Mar 10, 2024 | nature.com | Florian Wittmann |Rafael Assis |Aline Lopes |Rafael P. Salomão |Olaf Bánki |Carlos A. Peres | +68 more

AbstractAmazonia’s floodplain system is the largest and most biodiverse on Earth. Although forests are crucial to the ecological integrity of floodplains, our understanding of their species composition and how this may differ from surrounding forest types is still far too limited, particularly as changing inundation regimes begin to reshape floodplain tree communities and the critical ecosystem functions they underpin.

Jul 20, 2023 | nature.com | Olivier Pruvost |Cláudia Baider |Adrien Rieux |Paola E. Campos

AbstractHerbarium collections are an important source of dated, identified and preserved DNA, whose use in comparative genomics and phylogeography can shed light on the emergence and evolutionary history of plant pathogens. Here, we reconstruct 13 historical genomes of the bacterial crop pathogen Xanthomonas citri pv. citri (Xci) from infected Citrus herbarium specimens.

Feb 23, 2023 | nature.com | Cláudia Baider |W. Daniel Kissling |Robert J. Whittaker |Carsten Rahbek

Remote oceanic islands are known for their high proportions of endemic species. Many of these possess characteristic island syndromes, such as animals with reduced or lost flight capacity and gigantism. This makes them particularly vulnerable to pressure from introduced, invasive species and elevates their extinction risk, making islands global hotspots of species extinction (totaling, e.g., close to 90% of all extinct birds in 3.5% of Earth’s area1).