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SPECIES. FUNCTION.

EVOLUTION.

"Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming". That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world."
 
Ernet Hackel



 
Featured ECOFUN Papers
Featured ECOFUN Papers
Highlighted papers

Integrating climate and host richness as drivers of global parasite diversity

Host diversity outperforms climate as a global driver of symbiont diversity in the bird‐feather mite system

Paulo M. Sobrinho led an interesting paper just published in Global Ecology and Biogeography together with Robert Poulin and Thiago Gonçalves-Souza

They build an impressive database about helminths of amphibians from the whole world. Check their nice findings.

In this other nice piece, Reginaldo Gusmão unravelled the interactions of feather mites with birds. They found that bird species are quite more important than climate to determine mite diversity.

Reginaldo had an amazing team of collaborators: Fabio Fernandes, Mauricio Vancine, Luciano Naka, Jorge Doña and Thiago Gonçalves-Souza. Their results are available in Diversity and Distributions.

The papers that we're reading:

 

We always try to suggested other [key] papers outside our scope. But when we can't, we suggest our beloved research theme ;-)

We are excited to discuss this paper, mainly given the current world scenario:

"The macroecology of infectious diseases: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts "  published in Ecology Letters

Chosen by Arthur Ramalho.

Paper tangled by ECOFFUN team

Paulo HP Gusmão, Pedro HA Sena, Tiago N Bernabé, Lilian S. Ouchi-Melo and Thiago Gonçalves-Souza (2010) Interspecific plant functional variation prevails over intraspecific variation in driving spider beta diversity. In press in Ecological Entomology:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/een.12789

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