Thiago Gonçalves-Souza

Dec 9, 2024 | nature.com | Bruno Pinho |David Bauman |Isabelle Maréchaux |Maíra Benchimol |Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez |Braulio A. Santos | +8 more

AbstractAnthropogenic landscape modification may lead to the proliferation of a few species and the loss of many. Here we investigate mechanisms and functional consequences of this winner–loser replacement in six human-modified Amazonian and Atlantic Forest regions in Brazil using a causal inference framework.

Apr 29, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Thiago Gonçalves-Souza |Beatriz Milz |Nathan Sanders |Peter B. Reich

1 INTRODUCTION The rapid growth of data availability in ecology and evolution has opened up new opportunities for researchers to advance and improve critical theoretical, conceptual, and applied aspects of both disciplines.

Feb 20, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Ricardo Dobrovolski |Thiago Gonçalves-Souza |Geiziane Tessarolo

1 INTRODUCTION The most difficult challenge for ecological theory has been explaining the nonhomogeneous distribution of species, which has encouraged the development of various hypotheses with varying degrees of support (Pianka, 1996; Willig et al., 2003). Climate-based hypotheses have been shown to be the most effective in explaining patterns of global diversity (Gillman & Wright, 2014).

Oct 7, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Thiago Gonçalves-Souza |Fausto Nomura |Franco Leandro Souza |Michel V. Garey

1 INTRODUCTION The metacommunity processes associated with the spatial and temporal variation in species abundance are scale dependent (Chase et al., 2018), so the range of scales that affect species must be explicitly considered (Levin, 1992). This integration essentially includes variations in geographical grain and extent. Increasing grain size results in increases within-grain heterogeneity while decreasing intergrain variation (Barton et al., 2013).