Jos Barlow

Jun 3, 2024 | nature.com | Brittany T. Trew |David Edwards |Alexander Lees |Regan Early |Martin Svátek |Radim Matula | +6 more

AbstractTropical forest biodiversity is potentially at high risk from climate change, but most species reside within or below the canopy, where they are buffered from extreme temperatures. Here, by modelling the hourly below-canopy climate conditions of 300,000 tropical forest locations globally between 1990 and 2019, we show that recent small increases in below-canopy temperature (<1 °C) have led to highly novel temperature regimes across most of the tropics.

Apr 22, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Bruno H. Saranholi |Filipe França |Alfried P. Vogler |Jos Barlow

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no competing interests. Supporting Information Filename Description men13961-sup-0001-Supporting Information.pdfPDF document, 258.3 KB Table S1. Table S2. Table S3. Figure S1. REFERENCES (2010). Does your preservative preserve? A comparison of the efficacy of some pitfall trap solutions in preserving the internal reproductive organs of dung beetles. ZooKeys, 34, 1–16. , , , , , , & (2019).

Apr 17, 2024 | nature.com | Manoela Machado |Erika Berenguer |Paulo M. Brando |Ane A. Alencar |Imma Oliveras Menor |Jos Barlow

AbstractThe fire crises in the Amazon continues to increase the risk of large-scale forest dieback, threatening regional biodiversity and global climate. This issue gained international attention in 2019 when fires in the Brazilian Amazon led to a fire ban imposition. Despite the uncertainty of its impact, the fire ban was reenacted in subsequent years. Here we assess the effectiveness of each fire ban by comparing observed fire counts with climate-driven predictions of fire for 2019–2021.

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.

Nov 16, 2023 | besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jack H. Hatfield |Cristina Banks-Leite |Jos Barlow |Alexander Lees

1 INTRODUCTION The degradation and fragmentation of tropical forests, along with their conversion to production landscapes, is driving widespread defaunation (Canale et al., 2012; Dirzo et al., 2014) with large frugivorous birds particularly affected (Bovo et al., 2018; Bregman et al., 2014). This loss of species can disrupt seed-dispersal networks (da Silva & Tabarelli, 2000), thereby limiting forest regeneration (Galetti et al., 2013; Gardner et al., 2019).