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  • Figure 5. Colony-forming units of bacteria from Bromelia balansae phyllosphere (photo credit: MSc. Ana Gonçalves).

    March 2014 Editor’s Choice: Phyllosphere Bacteria Improve Plant Nutrition

  • Photo by Germán Póo-Caamaño

    Wiley to allow authors to archive *accepted* manuscripts in repositories

  • "Pen & Paper" by Orin Zebest

    Biotropica will accept manuscripts submitted to preprint archives

  • Juvenile black howling monkey resting in a Cecropia tree (photo credit: Meagan Ody)

    Editor’s Choice January 2014: Hurricanes & Risk of Exposure to Parasites

  • Photo of Nanday Parakeets by Robert Neff (Fifth World Art)

    Why you need an ORCID ID number

  • Traversing the BR-319 Highgway (photo by Fabricio Baccaro).

    Photos from the Field: Baccaro et al. 2013

  • Dr. Alan Nilo da Costa assessing damage by glass-head leaf-cutter ants (Atta laevigata) in Brazil's Cerrado.

    What country submits the most to Biotropica?

  • Fragments of Atlantic Forest in Northeastern Brazil (photo by Antonio Aguiar Neto)

    Biotropica’s Greatest Hits (Part 2)

  • Photo of a Dipterocarp by Thomas H Brown

    Biotropica’s Greatest Hits

  • The 'shower' at Camp Porto Alegre, Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Central Brazilian Amazon.

    In defense of distant field sites

  • Who are we?

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  • Figure 5. Colony-forming units of bacteria from Bromelia balansae phyllosphere (photo credit: MSc. Ana Gonçalves).
  • Photo by Germán Póo-Caamaño
  • "Pen & Paper" by Orin Zebest
  • Juvenile black howling monkey resting in a Cecropia tree (photo credit: Meagan Ody)
  • Photo of Nanday Parakeets by Robert Neff (Fifth World Art)
  • Traversing the BR-319 Highgway (photo by Fabricio Baccaro).
  • Dr. Alan Nilo da Costa assessing damage by glass-head leaf-cutter ants (Atta laevigata) in Brazil's Cerrado.
  • Fragments of Atlantic Forest in Northeastern Brazil (photo by Antonio Aguiar Neto)
  • Photo of a Dipterocarp by Thomas H Brown
  • The 'shower' at Camp Porto Alegre, Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Central Brazilian Amazon.
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Editor's Desk

Biotropica adopts new preprint policy

Photo by Germán Póo-Caamaño

It’s official: Biotropica will accept for review articles posted in preprint servers.  The official statement from the Editorial Board is… Read More »

Wiley to allow authors to archive *accepted* manuscripts in repositories

Photo by Germán Póo-Caamaño

  Today I got this email from Wiley, our publisher (emphasis in bold below mine). I see this as really… Read More »

Biotropica will accept manuscripts submitted to preprint archives

"Pen & Paper" by Orin Zebest

In a recent post I argued that Biotropica should allow the submission of manuscripts that have previously been posted to… Read More »

Editor's Choice

March 2014 Editor’s Choice: Phyllosphere Bacteria Improve Plant Nutrition

Figure 5. Colony-forming units of bacteria from Bromelia balansae phyllosphere (photo credit: MSc. Ana Gonçalves).

  I’m pleased to announce the March 2014 Editor’s Choice article: Ana Z. Gonçalves, Fernando L. Hoffmann, Helenice Mercier,Paulo Mazzafera, and Gustavo… Read More »

Editor’s Choice January 2014: Hurricanes & Risk of Exposure to Parasites

Juvenile black howling monkey resting in a Cecropia tree (photo credit: Meagan Ody)

I’m pleased to announce the January 2014 Editor’s Choice article: Alison M. Behie, Susan Kutz, and Mary S. Pavelka. 2014. Cascading… Read More »

November 2013 Editor’s Choice: Snails, Slugs, & Rain Forest Nutrient Cycling

Succinea cepulla crawling across the litter at one of our sites. It not only leaves a slime trail, which contains water and polysaccharides, but also leaves behind food byproducts (e.g., fecal matter) both of which may promote microbial growth.

I’m pleased to announce the November 2013 Editor’s Choice article: Wallace M. Meyer III, Rebecca Ostertag, and Robert H. Cowie…. Read More »

September 2013 Editor’s Choice: Competition & facilitation between Capuchin & Squirrel Monkeys

Cebus capucinus (photo by kansasphoto)

Starting with the September 2013 issue we will begin to highlight some of the innovative research published in Biotropica with… Read More »

Photos from the Field

Photos from the Field: Lima et al. 2014: Biodiversity on São Tomé Island

View of a typical Santomean cocoa Theobroma cacao plantation, shaded by coral trees Erythrina poeppigiana and intercropped with stapple food species: bananas Musa x paradisiaca and coco-yam Xanthosoma sagittifolium (Photograph by Ricardo F. Lima)

Ricardo F. de Lima, Leonel Viegas, Nelson Solé, Estevão Soares, Martin Dallimer, Philip W. Atkinson, and Jos Barlow. 2014. Can Management Improve the Value of Shade… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Heymann et al. 2014. Research Impacts on Bromeliads

Heyman et al. 2014. The Estación Biológica Quebrada Blanco (EBQB) is a field research site in north-eastern Peruvian Amazonia. While the focus of research at EBQB has traditionally been on primate ecology and behaviour, researchers and students interested in other organisms are highly welcome. (Photo: E.W. Heymann).

Eckhard W. Heymann, Laura L. Wörner, Birgit Ziegenhagen, Ronald Bialozyt. 2014. Research Trails Affect the Abundance of an Epiphytic Tropical Bromeliad. Biotropica, 46(2):… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Salazar and Goldstein 2014. Fire & Diversity in the Cerrado

Salazar & Goldstein 2014. Researcher Ana Salazar establishing 1m2 plots to quantify density and richness of seedlings in recently burned savannas in Central Brazil (Photograph by Daniel Ramirez-Lamus)

Ana Salazar & Guillermo Goldstein. 2014. Effects of Fire on Seedling Diversity and Plant Reproduction (Sexual vs. Vegetative) in Neotropical Savannas… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Wilson et al. 2014. Plant invasions & elephants

Wilson et al. 2014. In this study a trunksful of grass was defined as the number of trunksful of grass or browse that the focal elephant gathered with its trunk and put into its mouth. Here, a herd of elephants is seen feeding on grass in a Lantana camara-free area of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve. (Photo credit: Gaius Wilson).

Gaius Wilson, Monica A. Gruber, and Philip J. Lester. 2014. Foraging Relationships Between Elephants and Lantana camara Invasion in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, India. Biotropica 46(2):194-201 … Read More »

Photos from the Field: Tillberg et al 2014. Giant Ants in Argentina

Tillberg et al 2014. Marked colony,

Chadwick V. Tillberg, Benjamin Edmonds, Alex Freauff, Priscila E. Hanisch, Carolina Paris, Chris R. Smith, Neil D. Tsutsui, Bill D. Wills, Sarah E. Wittman, Andrew V. Suarez. 2014. Foraging… Read More »

Awards

2013 Award for Excellence in Tropical Biology & Conservation

A male long-wattled umbrellabird on the lek in northwest Ecuador, about to regurgitate a palm seed. Photo by Murray Cooper

2013 Biotropica Award for Excellence in Tropical Biology and Conservation The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation and the Editors… Read More »

Biotropica Excellence Award, 2010

Biotropica Excellence Award, 2010

The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation and the Editors of Biotropica proudly announce the winner of the 2010 Biotropica… Read More »

Guest Posts

Guest Post: There are the Subtropics! Response to Richard Corlett

Longleaf Pine savanna at the Ordway Swisher Biological Station in Central Florida.

[Editor's Note: One of the goals of our blog is to provide a forum for members of our community to... Read More »

Guest Posts: Tell us about your work!

Guest Posts: Tell us about your work!

One of the things we hope to feature on the blogs are essays by authors of our papers in which… Read More »

Book Reviews

Recent Book Reviews

Fragments of Atlantic Forest in Northeastern Brazil (photo by Antonio Aguiar Neto)

A few years ago we decided to start reviewing books we thought would be of interest to our readers; here… Read More »

Special Issues

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 »

Primate Conservation in the Tropics

Cebus capucinus (photo by kansasphoto)

We’ve published a Virtual Issue on Primate Conservation, in which we have collated some exceptional papers on this topic from… Read More »

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