Environmental and Human-Related Gradients Shape the Community Structure of Medium and Large Terrestrial Mammals in a Central Amazonian White-Sand Forest

In this blog post, Renilce Carvalho de Castro tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Environmental and human-related gradients shape the community structure of medium and large terrestrial mammals in a central Amazonian white-sand Forest“, recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. This study utilised camera traps to monitor community structure of terrestrial mammals in white-sand ecosystems and evaluate influences of environmental and anthropogenic factors … Continue reading Environmental and Human-Related Gradients Shape the Community Structure of Medium and Large Terrestrial Mammals in a Central Amazonian White-Sand Forest

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The middle-out ecology movement

This blog post is provided by David Jachowski and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper “Support for the size-mediated sensitivity hypothesis within a diverse carnivore community”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their paper they explore the role of often overlooked meso-predators in ecosystems. Popularity of large carnivores has long infiltrated ecology. Open any ecology textbook and you will find a case … Continue reading The middle-out ecology movement