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    Welcome to Cairns! @Biotropica is at #ATBC14

  • Photo 1: Michael Anderson (right) and Deus Rugemalila (left) conducting a vegetation survey in Serengeti National Park. Photo credit: Anita Risch.

    July 2014 Editor’s Choice: Plant quality in grazing hotspots in Serengeti & Kruger National Parks

  • You can now see the Altimetrics for articles published in Biotropica.

    Altimetric data now available for @Biotropica articles (updated)

  • Acacia and Acacia Ant, by Murtaza Paghdiwala

    Reproducibility & Repeatability in Tropical Biology: a call to repeat classic studies

  • Sunrise at Buyangu Hill in Kakamega Forest, Photo by Nina Farwig

    May 2014 Editor’s Choice: Projecting the impact of management decisions in Kenya

  • 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).

    A challenge to FIFA & the Brazilian government as the World Cup approaches

  • Tillberg et al 2014. Marked colony,

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

  • 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

  • "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)

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

  • 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?

  • #ATBC14 in Cairns
  • Photo 1: Michael Anderson (right) and Deus Rugemalila (left) conducting a vegetation survey in Serengeti National Park. Photo credit: Anita Risch.
  • You can now see the Altimetrics for articles published in Biotropica.
  • Acacia and Acacia Ant, by Murtaza Paghdiwala
  • Sunrise at Buyangu Hill in Kakamega Forest, Photo by Nina Farwig
  • 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).
  • Tillberg et al 2014. Marked colony,
  • Figure 5. Colony-forming units of bacteria from Bromelia balansae phyllosphere (photo credit: MSc. Ana Gonçalves).
  • "Pen & Paper" by Orin Zebest
  • Juvenile black howling monkey resting in a Cecropia tree (photo credit: Meagan Ody)
  • Dr. Alan Nilo da Costa assessing damage by glass-head leaf-cutter ants (Atta laevigata) in Brazil's Cerrado.

Editor's Desk

Welcome to Cairns! @Biotropica is at #ATBC14

#ATBC14 in Cairns

If you are in Cairns, for ATBC 2014, be sure to stop me in the hallway and introduce yourself!  Many of… Read More »

Altimetric data now available for @Biotropica articles (updated)

You can now see the Altimetrics for articles published in Biotropica.

Lets get this out of the way first thing: Don’t use our journal’s impact factor as a means of judging how awesome… Read More »

When Biotropica is not @Biotropica

Beware of impostors! These are not real bats.

We all know what Biotropica is – the leading source of original research on the ecology, conservation, and management of… Read More »

Editor's Choice

July 2014 Editor’s Choice: Plant quality in grazing hotspots in Serengeti & Kruger National Parks

Photo 1: Michael Anderson (right) and Deus Rugemalila (left) conducting a vegetation survey in Serengeti National Park. Photo credit: Anita Risch.

I’m pleased to announce the July 2014 Editor’s Choice article: Stephen G. Arnold, Todd M. Anderson and Ricardo M. Holdo. 2014. Edaphic,… Read More »

May 2014 Editor’s Choice: Projecting the impact of management decisions in Kenya

Sunrise at Buyangu Hill in Kakamega Forest, Photo by Nina Farwig

  The May 2014 Editor’s Choice Article is “Linking land-use scenarios, remote sensing and monitoring to project impact of management… Read More »

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 »

January 2014 Editor’s Choice: 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: Lee at al. 2014. Seasonality & Canopy Beetles

Photos from the Field: Lee at al. 2014. Seasonality & Canopy Beetles

Christina J. Lee, Alec Baxt, Suzette Castillo, and Amy Berkov. 2014. Stratification in French Guiana: Cerambycid Beetles Go Up When… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Fadini et al. 2014. Seed predation in Mistletoes

Fig. 5. Rodrigo Fadini and Leidielly Ghizoni doing fieldwork in a sand beach along the Tapajos River. (Photo credit: Brendson Brito).

Rodrigo F. Fadini. Ana Mellado, and, Leidielly P. Ghizoni. 2014. A Host Creates an Enemy-free Space for Mistletoes by Reducing Seed Predation Caused… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Lee at al. 2014. Geophagy in Amazonian Parrots

Blue-and-Yellow; Red-and-green; and Scarlet Macaws in flight around the claylick at Tambopata Research Centre (Photo: Alan Lee)

Alan T. K. Lee, Donald J. Brightsmith, Mario P. Vargas, Karina Q. Leon, Aldo J. Mejia and Stuart J. Marsden…. Read More »

Photos from the field: Aliyu et al. 2014. Scatterhoarding rodents in African Forests

Ngel Nyaki forest

Babale Aliyu, Hammadu Adamu, Elena Moltchanova, Pierre Michel Forget and Hazel Chapman. 2014. The Interplay of Habitat and Seed Type… Read More »

Photos from the Field. Guerra & Pizo 2014. Mistletoes and Dispersers.

T. Guerra's study site (Photo: T. Guerra)

Tadeu J. Guerra and Marco A. Pizo. 2014. Asymmetrical Dependence Between a Neotropical Mistletoe and its Avian Seed Disperser. Biotropica, 46(3): 285–293…. Read More »

Photos from the Field: Baldauf et al. 2014. Nontimber forest products in Brazil’s Cerrado

Harvesting increases flower and fruit production in H. drasticus (Photo: C. Baldauf)

Cristina Baldauf, Alexsandra Salvador da Silva, Julia C. Sfair, Rosijânia Ferreira and Flavio Antonio Maës dos Santos. 2014. Harvesting Increases Reproductive… 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 »

2010 Award for Excellence in Tropical Biology & Conservation

2010 Award for Excellence in Tropical Biology & Conservation

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

Guest Posts

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 »

A challenge to FIFA & the Brazilian government as the World Cup approaches

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).

Scientists challenge FIFA & the Brazilian government: Protect 1,000 hectares of the critically endangered Caatinga ecosystem for each goal scored in… Read More »

Book Reviews

Book Reviews

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

In 2010 Biotropica introduced a Book Reviews section in which recently published books (typically within the last year) on tropical… 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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