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Most important papers

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  1. Gonçalves-Souza T, Chase J, Haddad N, … Sanders NJ. Increasing species turnover does not alleviate biodiversity loss in fragmented landscapes. Nature (in press), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08688-7.

  2. Pinho BX, Melo FPL, ter Braak C, Bauman D, Maréchaux I, Tabarelli M, Benchimol M, Hawes JE, Berenguer E, Ferreira J, Silveira JM, Santos BA, Arroyo-Rodriguez VA, Peres CA, Rocha-Santos L, Souza F, Gonçalves-Souza T, Mariano-Neto E, Faria D, Barlow J. Winner-loser plant trait replacements in human-modified tropical forests. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 

  3. Gonçalves-Souza T, Chaves LS*, Boldorini GX*, Ferreira N, Gusmão RAF*, Perônico PB, Sanders NJ, Teresa FB (2023). Bringing light onto the Raunkiæran shortfall: A comprehensive review of traits used in functional animal ecology. Ecology and Evolution 13, 4. 

  4. Romero GQ, Gonçalves-Souza T, Kratina P, Marino NAC, Petry WK, Sobral-Souza T, Roslin T (2018). Global predation pressure redistribution under future climate change. Nature Climate Change 8, 1087-1091.

  5. Boldorini GX*, McCary MA, Romero GQ, Mills KL, Sanders NJ, Reich PB, Michalko R, Gonçalves-Souza T (2024) Predators control pests and increase yield across crop types and climates: a meta-analysis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 291, 20232522.

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Student-led publications

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  1. Cantalice AS*, Gonçalves-Souza T, Albuquerque UP. Effect of socioeconomic and anthropogenic variables on the richness of medicinal species on a macroscale. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 21, 10.1186/s13002-025-00757-5.

  2. Carmo RFR*, Carvalho CH*, Gusmão RAS*, Alencar LFCS, Vizentin-Bugoni J, Gonçalves-Souza T. Invasive grass and honeybees alter plant-pollinator network structure in the Brazilian Caatinga. Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

  3. Gonçalves-Souza T (2024) Trophic cascades regulate arthropods density and plant damage across forest strata. Journal of Animal Ecology.

  4. Monteiro Ferreira PS*, Gonçalves-Souza T, Ouchi-Melo LS, Oliveira-Filho AT, Rodal MJN (2024). Biogeographic history and environmental gradients modulate non-stationary patterns of tropical tree diversity. Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, 96, e20230063.

  5. VanValkenburg E, Gonçalves-Souza T, Sanders NJ, CaraDonna P (2024). Sodium-enriched nectar shapes plant–pollinator interactions in a subalpine meadow. Ecology and Evolution, e70026.

  6. Boldorini GX*, McCary MA, Romero GQ, Mills KL, Sanders NJ, Reich PB, Michalko R, Gonçalves-Souza T (2024) Predators control pests and increase yield across crop types and climates: a meta-analysis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 291, 20232522.

  7. Gusmão RAF*, Tessarolo G, Dobrowolski R, Gonçalves-Souza T (2024). Body size and trophic levels explain global asymmetric response of tetrapod diversity to climate effects. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e11047.

  8. Magalhães AR*, Codeço CT, Svenning JC, Escobar LE, Vuurst PV, Gonçalves-Souza T (2023). Neglected tropical diseases risk correlates with poverty and early ecosystem destruction. Infectious Diseases of Poverty 12, 32.

  9. Sena PHA*, Gonçalves-Souza T, Gonçalves P, Monteiro Ferreira PS, Gusmão RAF, Melo FPL (2022). Biocultural restoration improves delivery of ecosystem services in social-ecological landscapes. Restoration Ecology 30, e13599.

  10. Martins PM*, Poulin R, Gonçalves-Souza T (2021). Drivers of parasite β-diversity among anuran hosts depend on scale, realm and parasite group. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376, 20200367.

  11. Gusmão RAF*, Hernandes FA, Vancine MH, Naka LN, Doña J, Gonçalves-Souza T Host diversity outperforms climate as a global driver of symbiont diversity in the bird-feather mite system (2021). Diversity and Distributions, 27, 416-426.

  12. Martins PM,* Poulin R, Gonçalves-Souza T. (2021) Integrating climate and host richness as drivers of global parasite diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30, 196-204.

  13. Gusmão PHP*, Sena PHA*, Bernabé TN*, Ouchi-Melo LS*, Gonçalves-Souza T (2019) Interspecific plant functional variation prevails over intraspecific in driving spider beta-diversity. Ecological Entomology 45, 202-212.

  14. Morais-Junior CS*, Diniz LP, Sousa FDR, Gonçalves-Souza T, Elmoor-Loureiro LMA, Melo Júnior M. (2019) Bird feet morphology drives the dispersal of rotifers and microcrustaceans in a Neotropical temporary pond. Aquatic Sciences 81: 69.

  15. Morais-Junior CS*, Melo M, Gonçalves-Souza T, Lyra-Neves R. (2019) Zoochory of zooplankton: seasonality and bird morphological diversity can influence metacommunity dynamics of temporary ponds. Journal of Plankton Research 41, 465-477.

  16. Sena PHA*, Lins-e-Silva ACB, Gonçalves-Souza T (2018). Integrating trait and evolutionary differences untangles how biodiversity affects ecosystem functioning. Oecologia 188, 1121–1132.

  17. Ouchi-Melo LS*, Meynard CN, Gonçalves-Souza T, Rossa-Feres DC (2018). Integrating phylogenetic and functional biodiversity facets to guide conservation: a case study using anurans in a global biodiversity hotspot. Biodiversity and Conservation 27, 3247–3266.

  18. Corte G*, Gonçalves-Souza T, Checon H, Siegle E, Coleman RA, Amaral ACZ. (2018) When time affects space: Dispersal ability and extreme weather events determine metacommunity organization in marine sediments. Marine Enviromental Research 136: 139-152

  19. Ouchi-Melo LS*, Gonçalves-Souza T, Garey MV, Rosa-Feres DC (2017). Tadpole species richness within lentic and lotic microhabitats: an interactive influence of environmental and spatial factors. Herpetological Journal 27, 339-345.

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All publications​

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  1. Gonçalves-Souza T, Chaves LS*, Boldorini GX*, Ferreira N, Gusmão RAF*, Perônico PB, Teresa FB, Sanders NJ, Reich PB, Maitner B, Umaña MN (2024). ZooTraits: An R Shiny app for exploring animal trait data for ecological and evolutionary research. Ecology and Evolution, e11334.

  2. Sousa, TBB, Ferreira Júnior WS, Gonçalves-Souza T, Ramos MA (2024). The perception of availability explains the use value of plants: investigating the ecological apparency hypothesis. Human Ecology.

  3. Garey MV, Gonçalves-Souza T, Nomura F, Souza FL, Solé M, Rossa-Feres DC (2023). Explaining the anuran beta diversity by pond living tadpoles: the role of dispersal limitation and environmental gradients through multiple scales. Diversity and Distributions, 29, 1609-1622.

  4. Romero GQ, Gonçalves-Souza T, Roslin T, Marquis R, Marino N, Novotny V, … Koricheva J (2022). Climate variability and drought modulate the role of structural refuges for arthropods: a global experiment. Global Change Biology 28, 3694.

  5. Gonçalves-Souza T, Alves RRN, Albuquerque UP, Ferreira Júnior WS (2022). Editorial: Integrating traditional ecological knowledge into ecology, evolution, and conservation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

  6. Bernal-Valle S, Teixeira MN, Araújo Neto AR, Gonçalves-Souza T, ..., Oliveira JB (2022). Parasitic infections, hematological and biochemical parameters suggest appropriate health status of wild coati populations in anthropic Atlantic Forest remnants. Veterinary Parasitology, 30, 100963.

  7. Ferreira N, Omena PM, Gonçalves-Souza T, Cottenie K, Melo Júnior M (2022). Water availability and quality determine temporal synchrony and beta diversity of microcrustaceans in temporary pools. Freshwater Science 41, 2.

  8. Lima, ALA Rodal MJN, Castro CC, Antonino ACD, Melo AL, Gonçalves-Souza T, Sampaio EVSB (2021) Phenology of high-and low-density wood deciduous species responds differently to water supply in tropical semiarid regions. Journal of Arid Environments, 193, 104594.

  9. Albuquerque UP, Ludwig D, Feitosa IS, Moura JMB, Goncalves PHS, Silva RH, Silva TC, Gonçalves-Souza T, Ferreira-Junior WS (2021) Integrating traditional ecological knowledge into academic research at local and global scales. Regional Environmental Change 21, 45.

  10. Alves RR, Borges AKM, Souto WMS, Barboza R, Gonçalves-Souza T, Provete DB, Albuquerque UP. (2021) A global analysis of the evolutionary drivers of wild mammals use in traditional medicine. Mammal Review, 51, 293-306.

  11. Albuquerque UP, Ludwig D, Feitosa IS, Medeiros P, Silva RH, Silva TC, Gonçalves-Souza T, Moura JMB, Goncalves PHS, Ferreira-Junior WS (2020) Addressing social-ecological systems across temporal and spatial scales: a conceptual synthesis for Ethnobiology. Human Ecology 48, 557-571.

  12. Naka L, Laranjeiras T, Lima G, Plaskievicz A, Pinto F, Gonçalves-Souza T. (2020) Climate as a major driver of avian diversity in riparian Amazonian habitats along an environmental gradient Journal of Biogeography, 47, 2328-2340.

  13. Lowe E, Wolff JO, Cardoso P, Birkhofer P, Aceves-Aparicio A, Wong BH, Fukushima CS, Scott C, Haddad CR, McLean DJ, Urbano-Tenorio F, Chichorro F, Uhl G, Krehenwinkel H, Malumbres-Olarte J, Pétillon J, Privet K, Isaia M, Macías-Hernández N, Michalko R, Mammola S, Gonçalves-Souza T, Audisio TL, Nentwig W, Pekár S, Herberstein ME. (2020). Towards a centralized spider traits database. Journal of Arachnology 48, 103-109.

  14. Gonçalves-Souza T, Diniz-Filho JAF, Albuquerque, UP. (2020) Why scientific information does not necessarily impact the decisions by human society. Ethnobiology and Conservation 9, 9-11.

  15. Gonçalves PHS, Gonçalves-Souza T, Albuquerque UP. (2020) Chronic anthropogenic disturbances as an emerging topic in Ecology: a bibliometric approach. Scientometrics 123, 1103-1107.

  16. Antiqueira PAP, Omena PM, Gonçalves-Souza T, Vieira C, Migliorini GH, Kersch-Becker M, Bernabé TN, Recalde F, Benavides-Gordillo S, Romero GQ. (2020) Precipitation and predation risk alter the diversity and behavior of pollinators and reduce plant fitness. Oecologia 192, 745-753.

  17. Albuquerque UP, Medeiros PM, Ferreira-Junior WS, Silva TC, Silva RRV, Gonçalves-Souza T (2019). Social-Ecological Theory of Maximization: Basic Concepts and Two Initial Models. Biological Theory 14, 73-85.

  18. Albuquerque UP, Ferreira Júnior WS, Vandebroek I, Bussmann RW, Paniagua-Zambrana NY, Ladio AH, Voeks R, Melo FLP, Jacob MCM, Gonçalves-Souza T, Lopes AV, Soldati GT (2021). A Reply to Pierotti’s (2018) Review of “Evolutionary Ethnobiology”: Decolonizing Latin American Science. Ethnobiology Letters 12, 79.

  19. Garey, M, Provete DB, Gonçalves-Souza T, Ouchi-Melo LS, Haddad CFB, Rossa-Feres DC (2018). Phylogenetic and adaptive components of the anuran advertisement call correlate with temporal species co-occurrence. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125, 292-301.

  20. Lima H, Las-Casas FMG, Ribeiro J, Gonçalves-Souza T, Naka LN (2018). Ecological and phylogenetic predictors of mobbing behavior in a tropical dry forest. Ecology and Evolution 8, 12615-12628.

  21. Romero G, Piccoli GCO, Omena PM, Gonçalves-Souza T (2016) Food web structure shaped by habitat size and climate across a latitudinal gradient. Ecology 97, 2705-2715.

  22. Miranda G, Milleri-Pinto M, Gonçalves-Souza T, Giupponi APL, Scharff N (2016). A new species of Charinus Simon 1892 (Amblypygi, Charinidae) from Brazil, with notes on behavior. ZooKeys 621, 15-36.

  23. Gonçalves-Souza T (2016). Induced biotic response in Amazonian ant-plants: the role of leaf damage intensity and plant-derived food rewards on ant recruitment. Sociobiology 63, 919-924.

  24. Gonçalves-Souza T, Araújo MS, Barbosa EP, Lopes, SM, Kaminski LA, Shimizu GH, Santos AJ, Romero GQ (2015). Fine-scale beta-diversity patterns across multiple arthropod taxa over a Neotropical latitudinal gradient. Biotropica 47, 588-594.

  25. Gonçalves-Souza T, Santos AJ, Romero GQ, Lewinsohn TM (2015). Conservation along a hotspot rim: spiders in Brazilian coastal restingas. Biodiversity and Conservation 24, 1131-1146.

  26. Romero GQ, Gonçalves-Souza T, Vieira C, Koricheva J (2015). Ecosystem engineering effects on species diversity across ecosystems: A meta-analysis. Biological Reviews 90, 877-890.

  27. Gonçalves-Souza T, Romero GQ, Cottenie K (2014). Metacommunity versus Biogeography: a case study of two groups of neotropical vegetation dwelling arthropods. PLoS ONE 9: e115137734.

  28. Provete DB, Gonçalves-Souza T, Garey MV, Martins IA, Rossa-Feres DC (2014). Broad-scale spatial patterns of pond morphology and canopy cover affect the structure of Neotropical tadpole metacommunity. Hydrobiologia 734: 69-79.

  29. Gonçalves-Souza T, Giupponi APL, Hernandes FA (2014) A rare finding of mites parasitizing a whip spider (Arachnida, Amblypygi, Charinidae). Folia Parasitologica 61: 182-184.

  30. Gonçalves-Souza T, Diniz-Filho JAF, Romero GQ (2014) Disentangling phylogenetic and ecological components of spider phenotypic variation. PLoS ONE 9(2): e89314.

  31. Gonçalves-Souza T, Romero GQ, Cottenie K (2013). A critical analysis of the ubiquity of linear local–regional richness relationships. Oikos 122, 96-966. Oikos Editor’s Choice.

  32. Casatti L, Teresa FB, Gonçalves-Souza T, Bessa E, Manzotti AR, Gonçalves CS, Zeni JO (2012). From forests to cattail: how does the riparian zone influence stream fish? Neotropical Ichthyology 10, 205-214.

  33. Gonçalves-Souza T, Almeida-Neto, Romero GQ. (2011) Bromeliad architectural complexity and vertical distribution predict spider abundance and richness. Austral Ecology 36, 476-484.

  34. Gonçalves-Souza T, Brescovit AD, Rossa-Feres DC, Romero GQ (2010). Bromeliad as biodiversity amplifiers and habitat segregation of spider communities in a Neotropical Rainforest. Journal of Arachnology 38, 270-279.

  35. Gonçalves-Souza T, Omena PM, Souza, JC, Romero GQ (2008). Trait-mediated effects on flowers: artificial spiders deceive pollinators and decrease plant fitness. Ecology 89, 2407-2413.

  36. Gonçalves-Souza T, Matallana G, Brescovit AD (2008). Effects of habitat fragmentation on the spider community (Arachnida, Araneae) in three Atlantic Forest remnants in southeastern Brazil. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 16, 35-42.​

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Data Papers

  1. Gonçalves-Souza, T & Vancine, MH, et al. (2025) LandFrag: A Dataset to Investigate the Effects of Forest Loss and Fragmentation on Biodiversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

  2. Silva RR, Martello F, Feitosa RM, ... Gonçalves-Souza T ... Ribeiro MC (2022). The Atlantic Ants, the data paper of ants from Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Ecology 103, e03580.

  3. Pereira CC, Novais S, Barbosa M, Negreiros, Gonçalves-Souza T, ... Cornelissen T (2022). Subtle structures with not‐so‐subtle functions: A data set of arthropod constructs and their host plants. Ecology, 103, e3639.

  4. Pekár S, Wolff JO, Cernecka L, Gonçalves-Souza T, ..., Cardoso P. 2021. The World Spider Trait database: a centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits. Database 2021, baab064.

  5. Jeliazkov A, Mijatovic D, Chantepie S, … Gonçalves-Souza T, et al. (2020) A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space. Scientific Data 7: 6.

  6. Chase J, Liebergesell M, Bernard E, Cadotte MW, Chiarello AG, Didham RK, Gonçalves-Souza T, et al. (2019). FragSAD: A database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments. Ecology 100, e02861.

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