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  • Kristen Becklund studies antibiotic-producing bacteria from tropical forest soils at the University of Minnesota. Her research was conducted in part in the Kinkel lab, which studies the role Streptomyces play in the structure and function of experimental grasslands and the use of pathogen-suppressive Streptomyces in the biological control of crop diseases in agriculture. Photo credit: Jonathan Pavlica.

    November 2014 Editor’s Choice: Antibiotic bacteria in tropical forest soils may play a role in plant diversity

  • Pardo and Small, Recipients of the 2014 Biotropica Award for Excellence in Tropical Biology & Conservation

    2014 @Biotropica Award for Excellence in Tropical Biology & Conservation

  • Antje Ahrends prepares herbarium specimens at the forest edge. (Photo J. Finch)

    September 2014 Editor’s Choice: Genetic Diversity & Phylogeography of trees in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains

  • Computer Jungle, by Paul Downey

    BIG NEWS: @Biotropica to go online-only in 2015

  • FIGURE 1. The global spread of institutions with licensed access to Biotropica.

    Behind the Scenes @Biotropica: Annual Editor’s Report (Part 2)

  • Members of the Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation Council who were able to make it Cairns for our annual meeting. Front Row (l-r): J. Ghazoul, P. M. Forget, S. Laurance, E. Kuprewicz, P. Sampaio, L. P. Koh, R. Chazdon. Middle Row (l-r): J. Fragoso, V. Novotny, P. Parolin, S. Calme, E. Bruna, Y. Mahli, E. Andresen, P. Zuidema, K. Kitajima. Back Row (l-r): C. Baraloto, T. Lynam, K. Harms. Biotropica's Editor-in-Chief Emilio Bruna represented the Biotropica's Editorial Leadership and presented the Annual Biotropica Report to the Council.

    Behind the Scenes @Biotropica: 2014 Editor’s Report (Part 1)

  • 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

  • Beware of impostors! These are not real bats.

    When Biotropica is not @Biotropica

  • Acacia and Acacia Ant, by Murtaza Paghdiwala

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

  • Kristen Becklund studies antibiotic-producing bacteria from tropical forest soils at the University of Minnesota. Her research was conducted in part in the Kinkel lab, which studies the role Streptomyces play in the structure and function of experimental grasslands and the use of pathogen-suppressive Streptomyces in the biological control of crop diseases in agriculture. Photo credit: Jonathan Pavlica.
  • Pardo and Small, Recipients of the 2014 Biotropica Award for Excellence in Tropical Biology & Conservation
  • Antje Ahrends prepares herbarium specimens at the forest edge. (Photo J. Finch)
  • Computer Jungle, by Paul Downey
  • FIGURE 1. The global spread of institutions with licensed access to Biotropica.
  • Members of the Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation Council who were able to make it Cairns for our annual meeting. Front Row (l-r): J. Ghazoul, P. M. Forget, S. Laurance, E. Kuprewicz, P. Sampaio, L. P. Koh, R. Chazdon. Middle Row (l-r): J. Fragoso, V. Novotny, P. Parolin, S. Calme, E. Bruna, Y. Mahli, E. Andresen, P. Zuidema, K. Kitajima. Back Row (l-r): C. Baraloto, T. Lynam, K. Harms. Biotropica's Editor-in-Chief Emilio Bruna represented the Biotropica's Editorial Leadership and presented the Annual Biotropica Report to the Council.
  • Photo 1: Michael Anderson (right) and Deus Rugemalila (left) conducting a vegetation survey in Serengeti National Park. Photo credit: Anita Risch.
  • Beware of impostors! These are not real bats.
  • Acacia and Acacia Ant, by Murtaza Paghdiwala

Editor's Desk

A powerful & moving essay by @HopeJahren about an ugly reality: Science has a sexual assault problem

Rays Of Sun In Antalya by Gulsen Ozcan (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Yesterday the New York Times published a powerful and moving essay by one of our colleagues – Dr. Hope Jahren… Read More »

Behind the scenes @Biotropica: Editor’s Report (Part 3). Number of submissions, acceptance rates, time-to-decision, & more!

FIGURE 4. Percentage of manuscripts taking between 0–30 days, 31–60 days, 61–90, 91–120, and 151–180 days to reach first decision during 2012 and 2013.

The first two sections [one, two] of the annual Biotropica Editors’ Report that we prepared for the ATBC Council & Editorial… Read More »

BIG NEWS: @Biotropica to go online-only in 2015

Computer Jungle, by Paul Downey

Big news: As of January 2015, Biotropica will become an “online-only” journal! We have taken another step towards making Biotropica a… Read More »

Editor's Choice

November 2014 Editor’s Choice: Antibiotic bacteria in tropical forest soils may play a role in plant diversity

Kristen Becklund studies antibiotic-producing bacteria from tropical forest soils at the University of Minnesota. Her research was conducted in part in the Kinkel lab, which studies the role Streptomyces play in the structure and function of experimental grasslands and the use of pathogen-suppressive Streptomyces in the biological control of crop diseases in agriculture. Photo credit: Jonathan Pavlica.

The November Editor’s Choice article is a fascinating look at spatial variation in the antibiotic-producing bacteria in tropical soils, and… Read More »

September 2014 Editor’s Choice: Genetic Diversity & Phylogeography of trees in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains

Antje Ahrends prepares herbarium specimens at the forest edge. (Photo J. Finch)

  The September 2014 Editor’s Choice article is: Alistair S. Jump, Martin Carr, Antje Ahrends and Rob Marchant. 2014 Genetic Divergence… Read More »

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 »

Photos from the Field

Photos from the Field: Canopy Openess & Ant-Plant Interactions

Figure 2. Wesley Dáttilo and his field assistant Roberto Stofel recording ant-plant interactions.

Dáttilo, W. and Dyer, L. (2014), Canopy Openness Enhances Diversity of Ant–Plant Interactions in the Brazilian Amazon Rain Forest. Biotropica,… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Gentetic Diversity of Trees used for Non-timber Forest Products

The first picture shows a Khaya senegalensis tree previously pruned by the Fulani to feed cattle during the dry season.(Photo: O Gaoue)

Gaoue, O. G., Lemes, M. R., Ticktin, T., Sinsin, B. and Eyog-Matig, O. (2014), Non-timber Forest Product Harvest does not… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Fire in Seasonally Flooded Amazonian Forests

DBH (Photo: Angélica Resende)

de Resende, A. F., Nelson, B. W., Flores, B. M. and de Almeida, D. R. (2014), Fire Damage in Seasonally… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Plant-Hummingbird Networks in the Cerrado

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).

Maruyama, P. K., Vizentin-Bugoni, J., Oliveira, G. M., Oliveira, P. E. and Dalsgaard, B. (2014), Morphological and Spatio-Temporal Mismatches Shape… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Seed & Fern Spore Bank of an African Tropical Forest.

Several team members plan the project. Lead author Josephine Esaete is the one wearing an orange cap.(Photo by Vigdis Vandvik)

Esaete, J., Eycott, A. E., Reiniö, J., Telford, R. J. and Vandvik, V. (2014), The Seed and Fern Spore Bank… Read More »

Awards

2014 @Biotropica Award for Excellence in Tropical Biology & Conservation

Pardo and Small, Recipients of the 2014 Biotropica Award for Excellence in Tropical Biology & Conservation

Each year the Editorial Board of Biotropica proudly announces the winner of the Biotropica Award for Excellence in Tropical Biology… 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 »

Book Reviews

Reviewer needed: Field Gide to Amazon Mushrooms

Reviewer needed: Field Gide to Amazon Mushrooms

Are you willing to write a review of this field guide to Amazon fungi? If so I will send it… 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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  • Figure 2. Wesley Dáttilo and his field assistant Roberto Stofel recording ant-plant interactions.
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    Photos from the Field: Fire in Seasonally Flooded Amazonian Forests
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    Photos from the Field: Seed & Fern Spore Bank of an African Tropical Forest.
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