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  • Figure 1. Worker of species ‘OG’ (‘Orange Goo’) feeding from supplied sugar water. Hypertrophy of MG reservoirs is visible through the integument. An upraised gaster is typical of ants feeding on liquids or responding to perceived threats. (Photo D. Davidson)

    Editor’s Choice @Biotropica 48(4): Diet of Borneo’s Exploding Ants

  • 2016 Honorary Fellow of the ATBC: Dr. C.V. Savitri Gunatilleke (#ATBC16)

    2016 Honorary Fellow of the ATBC: Dr. C.V. Savitri Gunatilleke (#ATBC16)

  • #ATBC16 Bacardi & Gentry Award Winners

    #ATBC16 Bacardi & Gentry Award Winners

  • Biotropica renames its "Outstanding Paper" awards for two pioneering scientists

    Biotropica renames its “Outstanding Paper” awards for two pioneering scientists

  • Cameroon, near Jakiri Koumengba (photo by jbdodane, CC BY-NC 2.0)

    Editor’s Choice @Biotropica 48(3): Mapping Hunting Pressure in Central Africa

  • Columnar cactus forest and mezquite patches in Zapotitlan Salinas. (Photo by Jazmin Osorio).

    Editor’s Choice @Biotropica 48(2): Tracking Nutrients in Avian Consumers in a Subtropical Desert

  • Near the slops of the Andes collecting Pagamea thyrsiflora, the only highland species of the Guiana Shield to reach the Andean region. The author (right) with Ricardo Apanú and his son on the top of the Cerro Tayu-Mujaji, Amazonas, Peru. (Photo: Eric F. R. Rodriguez).

    Editor’s Choice @Biotropica 48(1): White Sand Forests & the Evolutionary History of Pagamea

  • Cotopaxi (5897 m) is the second highest mountain in Ecuador. Climate change and, most recently, volcanic activity, are affecting the large glaciers that cover the steep slopes of this volcano (photo: Esteban Suarez).

    Editor’s Choice @Biotropica 47(6): Plant colonization on Tropical Volcanoes

  • Fejervarya limnocharis, a generalist species never found in the continuous forest sites. (Photo by By Saleem Hameed (saleemham@rediffmail.com), CC BY 2.5, available at https://commons.wikimedia.org)./w/index.php?curid=1107791

    Editor’s Choice @Biotropica 47(5): Effect of Logging & Oil Palm on Stream Frogs on Borneo

  • Rat with spool attached. (Credit: Oliver Wearn)

    New in @Biotropica: Logging helps black rats invade rainforests

  • Photo 5: A Swallow-tailed hummingbird (Eupetomena macroura) visiting the flowers of Palicourea rigida (Rubiaceae), an interaction typically observed in the open savanna (credit P.E. Oliveira).

    2015 Biotropica Awards for Excellence in Tropical Biology & Conservation

  • Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) researchers upload data they've just collected in one of their plots. Photo by Nanang Sujana for Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and reproduced under the CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. For more information on CIFOR's work see www.cifor.org and blog.cifor.org.

    Announcing @Biotropica’s New Data Archiving Policy (effective 1 January 2016)

  • 2015 Gentry Award Winner Sarah Jane Wilson and the Santa Lucia Cloud Forest Reserve's Jorge Noe Morales in the Ecuadorian Andes (Photo by Jake Brennan).

    #ATBC15 Bacardi & Gentry Award Winners

  • In tropical forests large trees, like this one at La Selva Biological Station, are important roosting sites for bats (Photo by Peter Wilton; CC BY 2.0)

    Editor’s Choice @Biotropica 47(4): Do bats fertilize their roost trees?

  • The Giant Sloth Megatherium cuvieri, one of South America's largest Pleistocene mammals. This image is from the 1866 "Catalogue of casts of fossils"; Rochester, N. Y.,Benton & Andrews, Printers. (Courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library; CC BY 2.0).

    @Biotropica 47(3): Editor’s Choice: Paleoclimate, Environmental Grain, & Species Distributions in Africa & S. America

  • Yum. A male tortoise (C. porter) feeding on the probably introduced Paspalum conjugatum (Photo by Christian Ziegler).

    Editor’s Choice @Biotropica 47(2): Introduced plants & the diet of tortoises on Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos

  • • : Eleutherodactylus iberia: According to our results, this Critically Endangered frog is not adequately covered by the Cuban Protected Areas (Photo by Ansel Fong).

    Biotropica 47(1) Editor’s Choice: Amphibian Hotspots & Conservation Priorities in Cuba

  • Photo by Brian Chiu

    Photos from the field: Hsu et al. Epiphyte Richness in Taiwan

  • Figure 1. Worker of species ‘OG’ (‘Orange Goo’) feeding from supplied sugar water. Hypertrophy of MG reservoirs is visible through the integument. An upraised gaster is typical of ants feeding on liquids or responding to perceived threats. (Photo D. Davidson)
  • 2016 Honorary Fellow of the ATBC: Dr. C.V. Savitri Gunatilleke (#ATBC16)
  • #ATBC16 Bacardi & Gentry Award Winners
  • Biotropica renames its "Outstanding Paper" awards for two pioneering scientists
  • Cameroon, near Jakiri Koumengba (photo by jbdodane, CC BY-NC 2.0)
  • Columnar cactus forest and mezquite patches in Zapotitlan Salinas. (Photo by Jazmin Osorio).
  • Near the slops of the Andes collecting Pagamea thyrsiflora, the only highland species of the Guiana Shield to reach the Andean region. The author (right) with Ricardo Apanú and his son on the top of the Cerro Tayu-Mujaji, Amazonas, Peru. (Photo: Eric F. R. Rodriguez).
  • Cotopaxi (5897 m) is the second highest mountain in Ecuador. Climate change and, most recently, volcanic activity, are affecting the large glaciers that cover the steep slopes of this volcano (photo: Esteban Suarez).
  • Fejervarya limnocharis, a generalist species never found in the continuous forest sites. (Photo by By Saleem Hameed (saleemham@rediffmail.com), CC BY 2.5, available at https://commons.wikimedia.org)./w/index.php?curid=1107791
  • Rat with spool attached. (Credit: Oliver Wearn)
  • Photo 5: A Swallow-tailed hummingbird (Eupetomena macroura) visiting the flowers of Palicourea rigida (Rubiaceae), an interaction typically observed in the open savanna (credit P.E. Oliveira).
  • Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) researchers upload data they've just collected in one of their plots. Photo by Nanang Sujana for Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and reproduced under the CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. For more information on CIFOR's work see www.cifor.org and blog.cifor.org.
  • 2015 Gentry Award Winner Sarah Jane Wilson and the Santa Lucia Cloud Forest Reserve's Jorge Noe Morales in the Ecuadorian Andes (Photo by Jake Brennan).
  • In tropical forests large trees, like this one at La Selva Biological Station, are important roosting sites for bats (Photo by Peter Wilton; CC BY 2.0)
  • The Giant Sloth Megatherium cuvieri, one of South America's largest Pleistocene mammals. This image is from the 1866 "Catalogue of casts of fossils"; Rochester, N. Y.,Benton & Andrews, Printers. (Courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library; CC BY 2.0).
  • Yum. A male tortoise (C. porter) feeding on the probably introduced Paspalum conjugatum (Photo by Christian Ziegler).
  • • : Eleutherodactylus iberia: According to our results, this Critically Endangered frog is not adequately covered by the Cuban Protected Areas (Photo by Ansel Fong).
  • Photo by Brian Chiu

Editor's Desk

Complete list of Denslow & Ashton Prize Recipients

Can you name this tropical biologist?

After announcing that we renamed our “Outstanding Paper” awards after Julie Denslow and Peter Ashton, I realized we didn’t have… Read More »

Biotropica renames its “Outstanding Paper” awards for two pioneering scientists

Biotropica renames its "Outstanding Paper" awards for two pioneering scientists

Each year Biotropica’s Editorial Board recognizes two outstanding papers published in our journal in the previous calendar year with the Award for… Read More »

Guidelines for archiving data used in @BIotropica articles

Photo of datasheet by E. P. Mallory (CC BY-NC 2.0). Photo of Data File by E. Bruna (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Authors of papers submitted and accepted after January 1, 2016 must archive the data used in the paper in a… Read More »

Editor's Choice

Editor’s Choice @Biotropica 48(4): Diet of Borneo’s Exploding Ants

Figure 1. Worker of species ‘OG’ (‘Orange Goo’) feeding from supplied sugar water. Hypertrophy of MG reservoirs is visible through the integument. An upraised gaster is typical of ants feeding on liquids or responding to perceived threats. (Photo D. Davidson)

I am pleased to announce the Editor’s Choice Article for Biotropica 48(4): Diane W. Davidson, Alexey Kopchinskiy, Kamariah Abu Salim, Marica Grujic, Linda Lim,… Read More »

Editor’s Choice @Biotropica 48(3): Mapping Hunting Pressure in Central Africa

Cameroon, near Jakiri Koumengba (photo by jbdodane, CC BY-NC 2.0)

  I am pleased to announce the Editor’s Choice Article for Biotropica 48(3): Stefan Ziegler, John E. Fa, Christian Wohlfart,… Read More »

Editor’s Choice @Biotropica 48(2): Tracking Nutrients in Avian Consumers in a Subtropical Desert

Columnar cactus forest and mezquite patches in Zapotitlan Salinas. (Photo by Jazmin Osorio).

I am pleased to announce the Editor’s Choice Article for Biotropica 48(2): Herrera M., L. G. and Osorio M., J…. Read More »

Editor’s Choice @Biotropica 48(1): White Sand Forests & the Evolutionary History of Pagamea

Near the slops of the Andes collecting Pagamea thyrsiflora, the only highland species of the Guiana Shield to reach the Andean region. The author (right) with Ricardo Apanú and his son on the top of the Cerro Tayu-Mujaji, Amazonas, Peru. (Photo: Eric F. R. Rodriguez).

I am pleased to announce the Editor’s Choice Article for Biotropica 48(1): Vicentini, A. (2016), The evolutionary history of Pagamea… Read More »

Editor’s Choice @Biotropica 47(6): Plant colonization on Tropical Volcanoes

Cotopaxi (5897 m) is the second highest mountain in Ecuador. Climate change and, most recently, volcanic activity, are affecting the large glaciers that cover the steep slopes of this volcano (photo: Esteban Suarez).

I am pleased to announce the Editor’s Choice Article for Biotropica 47(6): Suárez, E., Orndahl, K. and Goodwin, K. (2015),… Read More »

Editor’s Choice @Biotropica 47(5): Effect of Logging & Oil Palm on Stream Frogs on Borneo

Fejervarya limnocharis, a generalist species never found in the continuous forest sites. (Photo by By Saleem Hameed (saleemham@rediffmail.com), CC BY 2.5, available at https://commons.wikimedia.org)./w/index.php?curid=1107791

Konopik, O., Steffan-Dewenter, I. and Grafe, T. U. (2015), Effects of Logging and Oil Palm Expansion on Stream Frog Communities… Read More »

Photos from the Field

Photos from the Field: Knowledge and Experience Predict Indiscriminate Bat-Killings

Carollia perspicillata is a common, fruit-eating bat across much of Latin America, but people sometimes confuse it for a vampire bat, exacerbating human-bat conflict.

J. Leighton Reid, (2016). Knowledge and Experience Predict Indiscriminate Bat-Killing Intentions among Costa Rican Men. Biotropica, 48: 394–404. doi: 10.1111/btp.12279 Human–wildlife… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Predicting the Terminal Velocity of Dipterocarp Fruit

The first author, James Smith, prepares to release a dipterocarp fruit from a tree tower in Danum Valley, Malaysian Borneo. Dipterocarp fruit were experimentally released to measure their terminal velocities (rate at which the fruit descends through the air column). We regressed species terminal velocity against fruit wing-loading (fruit mass divided by wing area), generating a model from which terminal velocities of dipterocarp fruit can be predicted from their morphological dimensions.

James R. Smith, Robert Bagchi, Chris J. Kettle, Colin Maycock, Eyen Khoo and Jaboury Ghazoul, (2016). Predicting the terminal velocity… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Phenology of Predation on Insects in a Tropical Forest

Having fun with home-made flagging tape (from plastic bags). Mwesige Isaiah and Francis Katuramu Kanywanii wear the skirts, Boniface Balyeganira and Harriet Kesiime are also present. (Photo: Freerk Molleman).

Freerk Molleman, Triinu Remmel, and Katerina Sam, (2016). Phenology of Predation on Insects in a Tropical Forest: Temporal Variation in… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Tracking Nutrient Routing in Avian Consumers

Momotus mexicanus (Photo by J. Osorio M.)

Gerardo Herrera and Jazmín Osorio, (2016). Tracking Nutrient Routing in Avian Consumers in a Subtropical Desert. Biotropica, 48: 255–264. doi: 10.1111/btp.12274 The… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Does Fire Trigger Seed Germination in the Neotropical Savannas?

Figure 2. Fire experiments conducted in wet grasslands to evaluate how fire affects vegetation composition, structure and dynamics. Local people usually burn the wet grasslands every two years in order to stimulate the production of flowering stalks of Syngonanthus nitens (“capim dourado “ - golden grass/ Eriocaulaceae), which is used in handcraft. (Photo: Alessandra Fidelis)

Santos Fichino et al., (2016). Does Fire Trigger Seed Germination in the Neotropical Savannas? Experimental Tests with Six Cerrado Species…. Read More »

Awards

2016 Honorary Fellow of the ATBC: Dr. C.V. Savitri Gunatilleke (#ATBC16)

2016 Honorary Fellow of the ATBC: Dr. C.V. Savitri Gunatilleke (#ATBC16)

In 1963, the Council of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation established the election of Honorary Fellows as ‘persons… Read More »

#ATBC16 Bacardi & Gentry Award Winners

#ATBC16 Bacardi & Gentry Award Winners

The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) recognizes the exceptional research of our students and early career scientists with… Read More »

Biotropica renames its “Outstanding Paper” awards for two pioneering scientists

Biotropica renames its "Outstanding Paper" awards for two pioneering scientists

Each year Biotropica’s Editorial Board recognizes two outstanding papers published in our journal in the previous calendar year with the Award for… Read More »

Guest Posts

Frogs affected by logging even after 40 years

Raorchestes chalazodes on a slide caliper (photo by K S Seshadri)

—  PRESS RELEASE —  Frogs affected by logging even after 40 years Additional photos available here on September 26th 11… Read More »

Ainda há chance de um gol de placa para o tatu-bola e a Caatinga

The Brazilian Three-banded armadillo Tolypeutes tricinctus, the official mascot of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. It’s habitat is the Caatinga drylands of Northeastern Brazil. Among the most threatened tropical dry forests of the world, the Caatinga has now been reduced to 53 percent of its original area. Besides strong pressure from subsistence hunting, T. tricinctus also experiences the loss of habitat due to the use of the vegetation for industrial and domestic fuelwood and conversion for livestock ranching. (Photo credit: J. A. Siqueira).

  Pela conservação do mascote da Copa do Mundo e de seu habitat, pesquisadores propõem desafio à Fifa e ao… Read More »

Virtual Issues

Tropical Biology and Conservation in Brazil

Tropical Biology and Conservation in Brazil

Brazil always fascinated early naturalists – many will be familiar with the writings of Darwin, Wallace, Roosevelt, von Humboldt, and… Read More »

Dynamics in Hurricane Prone Forests

Dynamics in Hurricane Prone Forests

This virtual issue compiles studies from around the world on cyclone impacts on forests and their species to provide insights… Read More »

International Year of Biodiversity

Morpho peleides

Celebrate the International Year of Biodiversity with a new virtual issue! Articles on everything from extinction to conservation. Published: May… Read More »

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