Sensitivity of Tropical Insectivorous Birds to the Anthropocene: A Review of Multiple Mechanisms and Conservation Implications

Put some muscle behind it: Understanding movement capacity of tropical birds

(2021) W Douglas Robinson et al.   AUK

Demographic consequences of foraging ecology explain genetic diversification in Neotropical bird species

(2021) Matthew J. Miller et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Arthropods are not declining but are responsive to disturbance in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico

(2021) Timothy D. Schowalter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts

(2021) David L. Wagner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A window to the world of global insect declines: Moth biodiversity trends are complex and heterogeneous

(2021) David L. Wagner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

To us insectometers, it is clear that insect decline in our Costa Rican tropics is real, so let’s be kind to the survivors

(2021) Daniel H. Janzen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Agricultural intensification and climate change are rapidly decreasing insect biodiversity

(2021) Peter H. Raven et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecological Correlates of Elevational Range Shifts in Tropical Birds

(2021) Montague H. C. Neate-Clegg et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Scientists' warning to humanity on insect extinctions

(2020) Pedro Cardoso et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Loss of dominant caterpillar genera in a protected tropical forest

(2020) Danielle M. Salcido et al.   Scientific Reports

Beyond ecosystem services as justification for biodiversity conservation

(2020) Kit S. Prendergast   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Birds in fragmented Amazonian rainforest: Lessons from 40 years at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project

(2020) Philip C Stouffer   CONDOR

Creating benchmark measurements of tropical forest bird communities in large plots

(2020) W Douglas Robinson et al.   CONDOR

Ecosystem services provided by Neotropical birds

(2020) Nicole L Michel et al.   CONDOR

Agricultural land in the Amazon basin supports low bird diversity and is a poor replacement for primary forest

(2020) Montague H C Neate-Clegg et al.   CONDOR

Applying conservation social science to study the human dimensions of Neotropical bird conservation

(2020) Ashley A Dayer et al.   CONDOR

Marked decline in forest-dependent small mammals following habitat loss and fragmentation in an Amazonian deforestation frontier

(2020) Ana Filipa Palmeirim et al.   PLoS One

Ecological drivers of global gradients in avian dispersal inferred from wing morphology

(2020) Catherine Sheard et al.   Nature Communications

Behavioural plasticity is associated with reduced extinction risk in birds

(2020) Simon Ducatez et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Small vertebrates are key elements in the frugivory networks of a hyperdiverse tropical forest

(2020) Daiane C. Carreira et al.   Scientific Reports

Insectivorous birds in the Neotropics: Ecological radiations, specialization, and coexistence in species-rich communities

(2020) Thomas W Sherry et al.   AUK

Lianas maintain insectivorous bird abundance and diversity in a neotropical forest

(2020) Stefan A. Schnitzer et al.   ECOLOGY

Heat tolerances of temperate and tropical birds and their implications for susceptibility to climate warming

(2020) Henry S. Pollock et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Landscape-scale effects of forest degradation on insectivorous birds and invertebrates in austral temperate forests

(2020) Pablo M. Vergara et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Do non‐native plants contribute to insect declines?

(2020) Douglas W. Tallamy et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

A general scenario to evaluate evolution of grassland birds in the Neotropics

(2020) Heraldo V. Norambuena et al.   IBIS

Dispersal ability correlates with range size in Amazonian habitat-restricted birds

(2020) João M. G. Capurucho et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot

(2020) Michael G. Harvey et al.   SCIENCE

The responses of wild jacamars (Galbula ruficauda , Galbulidae) to aposematic, aposematic and cryptic, and cryptic butterflies in central Brazil

(2019) Carlos E. G. Pinheiro et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

A review of the major threats and challenges to global bat conservation

(2019) Winifred F. Frick et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Perspective: Where might be many tropical insects?

(2019) Daniel H. Janzen et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers

(2019) Francisco Sánchez-Bayo et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Divergent flows of avian-mediated ecosystem services across forest-matrix interfaces in human-modified landscapes

(2019) Fabio M. Barros et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Long-term declines in bird populations in tropical agricultural countryside

(2019) Çağan H. Şekercioğlu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Populations are not declining and food webs are not collapsing at the Luquillo Experimental Forest

(2019) M. R. Willig et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reply to Willig et al.: Long-term population trends in the Luquillo Rainforest

(2019) Brad Lister et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate Change in the Tropics: Ecological and Evolutionary Responses at Low Latitudes

(2019) Kimberly S. Sheldon   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Decline of the North American avifauna

(2019) Kenneth V. Rosenberg et al.   SCIENCE

Insect Declines in the Anthropocene

(2019) David L. Wagner   Annual Review of Entomology

Is the insect apocalypse upon us? How to find out

(2019) Graham A. Montgomery et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Fragmented tropical forests lose mutualistic plant–animal interactions

(2019) Emma‐Liina Marjakangas et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Clarifying Amazonia's burning crisis

(2019) Jos Barlow et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Extinction filters mediate the global effects of habitat fragmentation on animals

(2019) Matthew G. Betts et al.   SCIENCE

Global patterns of tropical forest fragmentation

(2018) Franziska Taubert et al.   NATURE

Insectivorous birds consume an estimated 400–500 million tons of prey annually

(2018) Martin Nyffeler et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Insectivorous birds consume an estimated 400–500 million tons of prey annually

(2018) Martin Nyffeler et al.   Science of Nature

The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems

(2018) James E. M. Watson et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Elevational changes in the avian community of a Mesoamerican cloud forest park

(2018) Montague H. C. Neate-Clegg et al.   BIOTROPICA

Comparative foliar metabolomics of a tropical and a temperate forest community

(2018) Brian E. Sedio et al.   ECOLOGY

Climate-driven declines in arthropod abundance restructure a rainforest food web

(2018) Bradford C. Lister et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate change causes upslope shifts and mountaintop extirpations in a tropical bird community

(2018) Benjamin G. Freeman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genetic effects of anthropogenic habitat fragmentation on remnant animal and plant populations: a meta-analysis

(2018) Daniel R. Schlaepfer et al.   Ecosphere

Intrinsic values in nature: Objective good or simply half of an unhelpful dichotomy?

(2017) John J. Piccolo   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Creation of forest edges has a global impact on forest vertebrates

(2017) M. Pfeifer et al.   NATURE

Coevolutionary arms race versus host defense chase in a tropical herbivore–plant system

(2017) María-José Endara et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines

(2017) Gerardo Ceballos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Do thermoregulatory costs limit altitude distributions of Andean forest birds?

(2016) Gustavo A. Londoño et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A near half-century of temporal change in different facets of avian diversity

(2016) Marta A. Jarzyna et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evolutionary escalation: the bat–moth arms race

(2016) Hannah M. ter Hofstede et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Dietary opportunism, resource partitioning, and consumption of coffee berry borers by five species of migratory wood warblers (Parulidae) wintering in Jamaican shade coffee plantations

(2016) Thomas W. Sherry et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Land-use and climate change risks in the Amazon and the need of a novel sustainable development paradigm

(2016) Carlos A. Nobre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Detecting the Multiple Facets of Biodiversity

(2016) Marta A. Jarzyna et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Impacts of changing rainfall regime on the demography of tropical birds

(2016) Jeffrey D. Brawn et al.   Nature Climate Change

Cambio climático y efermedades animales en Sudamérica

(2016) J.A. PINTO et al.   REVUE SCIENTIFIQUE ET TECHNIQUE-OFFICE INTERNATIONAL DES EPIZOOTIES

Integrating life history traits and forest structure to evaluate the vulnerability of rainforest birds along gradients of deforestation and fragmentation in eastern Australia

(2015) David C. Pavlacky et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Importance of Ethiopian shade coffee farms for forest bird conservation

(2015) Evan R. Buechley et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Increased abundance, but reduced nest predation in the chestnut-backed antbird in costa rican rainforest fragments: surprising impacts of a pervasive snake species

(2015) Deborah M. Visco et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Response of mixed-species flocks to habitat alteration and deforestation in the Andes

(2015) Gabriel J. Colorado Zuluaga et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Patterns and causes of understory bird declines in human-disturbed tropical forest landscapes: A case study from Central America

(2015) Deborah M. Visco et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Absence of microclimate selectivity in insectivorous birds of the Neotropical forest understory

(2015) Henry S. Pollock et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Forest fragmentation alters microhabitat availability for Neotropical terrestrial insectivorous birds

(2015) Jeffrey A. Stratford et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Ecology and conservation of avian insectivores of the rainforest understory: A pantropical perspective

(2015) Luke L. Powell et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Bird and bat predation services in tropical forests and agroforestry landscapes

(2015) Bea Maas et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Do Collared Peccaries Negatively Impact Understory Insectivorous Rain Forest Birds Indirectly Via Lianas and Vines?

(2015) Nicole L. Michel et al.   BIOTROPICA

Thermal tolerances to cold do not predict upper elevational limits in New Guinean montane birds

(2015) Benjamin G. Freeman   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Hybridization in headwater regions, and the role of rivers as drivers of speciation in Amazonian birds

(2015) Jason T. Weir et al.   EVOLUTION

Persistent impacts of West Nile virus on North American bird populations

(2015) T. Luke George et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Toward a trophic theory of species diversity

(2015) John W. Terborgh   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effects of tropical deforestation on climate and agriculture

(2015) Deborah Lawrence et al.   Nature Climate Change

Avian malaria in Hawaiian forest birds: infection and population impacts across species and elevations

(2015) Michael D. Samuel et al.   Ecosphere

Enigmatic declines in bird numbers in lowland forest of eastern Ecuador may be a consequence of climate change

(2015) John G. Blake et al.   PeerJ

Invasive rats on tropical islands: Their population biology and impacts on native species

(2015) Grant A. Harper et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Poor Prospects for Avian Biodiversity in Amazonian Oil Palm

(2015) Alexander C. Lees et al.   PLoS One

Global patterns and predictors of bird species responses to forest fragmentation: Implications for ecosystem function and conservation

(2014) Tom P. Bregman et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Pan-Tropical Analysis of Climate Effects on Seasonal Tree Growth

(2014) Fabien Wagner et al.   PLoS One

Global variation in thermal tolerances and vulnerability of endotherms to climate change

(2014) I. Khaliq et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

On Tropical Forests and Their Pests

(2014) Phyllis D. Coley et al.   SCIENCE

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Agricultural expansion and its impacts on tropical nature

(2014) William F. Laurance et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Predicting primate local extinctions within “real-world” forest fragments: A pan-neotropical analysis

(2013) Maíra Benchimol et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Insect herbivores, chemical innovation, and the evolution of habitat specialization in Amazonian trees

(2013) Paul V. A. Fine et al.   ECOLOGY

Forest bolsters bird abundance, pest control and coffee yield

(2013) Daniel S. Karp et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The omnivorous collared peccary negates an insectivore-generated trophic cascade in Costa Rican wet tropical forest understorey

(2013) Nicole L. Michel et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Global patterns of terrestrial vertebrate diversity and conservation

(2013) C. N. Jenkins et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The effects of climate change on tropical birds

(2012) Çağan H. Şekercioğlu et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Fine-scale genetic population structure of an understory rainforest bird in Costa Rica

(2012) Stefan Woltmann et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Precipitation, soils, NPP, and biodiversity: resurrection of Albrecht's curve

(2012) Michael A. Huston   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

The latitudinal gradient in dispersal constraints: ecological specialisation drives diversification in tropical birds

(2012) Claire L. Salisbury et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A genetic approach to estimating natal dispersal distances and self-recruitment in resident rainforest birds

(2012) Stefan Woltmann et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

The Amazon basin in transition

(2012) Eric A. Davidson et al.   NATURE

Ecological traits affect the response of tropical forest bird species to land-use intensity

(2012) T. Newbold et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sound Strategies: The 65-Million-Year-Old Battle Between Bats and Insects

(2011) William E. Conner et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

(2011) Luke Gibson et al.   NATURE

Habitat fragmentation reduces nest survival in an Afrotropical bird community in a biodiversity hotspot

(2011) W. D. Newmark et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional Extinctions of Bird Pollinators Cause Plant Declines

(2011) C. H. Sekercioglu   SCIENCE

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

Amazon deforestation in Brazil: effects, drivers and challenges

(2011) Jean Pierre Ometto et al.   Carbon Management

The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation

(2010) William F. Laurance et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Habitat and Life History Determinants of Antbird Occurrence in Variable-Sized Amazonian Forest Fragments

(2010) Alexander C. Lees et al.   BIOTROPICA

Constraints to Species’ Elevational Range Shifts as Climate Changes

(2010) GERMAN FORERO-MEDINA et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Simulating fire regimes in the Amazon in response to climate change and deforestation

(2010) Rafaella Almeida Silvestrini et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Squeezed at the top: Interspecific aggression may constrain elevational ranges in tropical birds

(2010) Jill E. Jankowski et al.   ECOLOGY

Worldwide decline of specialist species: toward a global functional homogenization?

(2010) Joanne Clavel et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Deforestation and avian infectious diseases

(2010) R. N. M. Sehgal   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Interactions among predators and the cascading effects of vertebrate insectivores on arthropod communities and plants

(2010) K. A. Mooney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Storms drive altitudinal migration in a tropical bird

(2010) W. A. Boyle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Effects of shade and bird exclusion on arthropods and leaf damage on coffee farms in Jamaica’s Blue Mountains

(2009) Matthew D. Johnson et al.   AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS

Severe declines of ant-following birds in African rainforest fragments are facilitated by a subtle change in army ant communities

(2009) Marcell K. Peters et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Comparing bird community responses to forest fragmentation in two lowland Central American reserves

(2009) Bryan J. Sigel et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The Rise of the Mesopredator

(2009) Laura R. Prugh et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Inverse edge effect on nest predation in a Kenyan forest fragment: an experimental case study

(2009) TOON SPANHOVE et al.   BIRD CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL

Predicted Climate-Driven Bird Distribution Changes and Forecasted Conservation Conflicts in a Neotropical Savanna

(2009) MIGUEL ÂNGELO MARINI et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Annual wood production in a tropical rain forest in NE Costa Rica linked to climatic variation but not to increasing CO2

(2009) DAVID B. CLARK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Gap-crossing movements predict species occupancy in Amazonian forest fragments

(2009) Alexander C. Lees et al.   OIKOS

Reserves Protect against Deforestation Fires in the Amazon

(2009) J. Marion Adeney et al.   PLoS One

The evolution of antiherbivore defenses and their contribution to species coexistence in the tropical tree genus Inga

(2009) T. A. Kursar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Direct versus indirect effects of habitat reduction on the loss of avian species from tropical forest fragments

(2008) K. J. Feeley et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Community approach to tropical forest fragmentation gets us closer to understanding mechanisms by revealing strong indirect effects

(2008) T. W. Sherry   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Nesting Success of Costa Rican Lowland Rain Forest Birds in Response to Edge and Isolation Effects

(2008) Bruce E. Young et al.   BIOTROPICA

Conservation Value of Remnant Riparian Forest Corridors of Varying Quality for Amazonian Birds and Mammals

(2008) ALEXANDER C. LEES et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

EFFECTS OF HABITAT FRAGMENTATION AND DEGRADATION ON FLOCKS OF AFRICAN ANT-FOLLOWING BIRDS

(2008) Marcell K. Peters et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Experimental evidence for extreme dispersal limitation in tropical forest birds

(2008) R. P. Moore et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climate change, human land use and future fires in the Amazon

(2008) MARK A. COCHRANE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global Warming, Elevational Range Shifts, and Lowland Biotic Attrition in the Wet Tropics

(2008) R. K. Colwell et al.   SCIENCE