Priorities of action and research for the protection of biodiversity and ecosystem services in continental Ecuador

Red List assessment of amphibian species of Ecuador: A multidimensional approach for their conservation

(2021) H. Mauricio Ortega-Andrade et al.   PLoS One

Dry forest is more threatened but less protected than evergreen forest in Ecuador’s coastal region

(2020) Carlos A Rivas et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Mapping tree species vulnerability to multiple threats as a guide to restoration and conservation of tropical dry forests

(2020) Tobias Fremout et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions

(2020) Yadvinder Malhi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Quantifying interregional flows of multiple ecosystem services – A case study for Germany

(2020) Janina Kleemann et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Warning about conservation status of forest ecosystems in tropical Andes: National assessment based on IUCN criteria

(2020) Jin Kyoung Noh et al.   PLoS One

Cost-effective priorities for the expansion of global terrestrial protected areas: Setting post-2020 global and national targets

(2020) Rui Yang et al.   Science Advances

In-Situ and Ex-Situ Biodiversity Conservation in Ecuador: A Review of Policies, Actions and Challenges

(2020) Carlos Mestanza-Ramón et al.   Diversity-Basel

Balancing plant conservation and agricultural production in the Ecuadorian Dry Inter-Andean Valleys

(2019) Catalina Quintana et al.   PeerJ

Recalculating route: dispersal constraints will drive the redistribution of Amazon primates in the Anthropocene

(2019) Lilian Patrícia Sales et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Climate change and the future restructuring of Neotropical anuran biodiversity

(2019) Pablo A. Menéndez‐Guerrero et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Estimating the hidden ecological costs of hydropower through an ecosystem services balance: A case study from Ecuador

(2019) Andrei Briones-Hidrovo et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Direct and indirect effects of elevation, climate and vegetation structure on bird communities on a tropical mountain

(2019) Vinicio Santillán et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Protected area connectivity: Shortfalls in global targets and country-level priorities

(2018) Santiago Saura et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Stable baselines of temporal turnover underlie high beta diversity in tropical arthropod communities

(2018) Michelle L. D'Souza et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Habitat loss and fragmentation reduce effective gene flow by disrupting seed dispersal in a neotropical palm

(2018) Luke Browne et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Spatial and topical imbalances in biodiversity research

(2018) Laura Tydecks et al.   PLoS One

New Mining Concessions Could Severely Decrease Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Ecuador

(2018) Bitty A. Roy et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Annual and spatial variation in composition and activity of terrestrial mammals on two replicate plots in lowland forest of eastern Ecuador

(2018) John G. Blake et al.   PeerJ

Are government incentives effective for avoided deforestation in the tropical Andean forest?

(2018) Pablo Cuenca et al.   PLoS One

Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

(2018) Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Widespread but heterogeneous responses of Andean forests to climate change

(2018) Belén Fadrique et al.   NATURE

Understanding Land Cover Change in a Fragmented Forest Landscape in a Biodiversity Hotspot of Coastal Ecuador

(2018) Xavier Haro-Carrión et al.   Remote Sensing

Cyathea sunduei, a new name for a recently described Colombian tree fern (Cyatheaceae)

(2017) MARCUS LEHNERT   Phytotaxa

The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation

(2017) Uri Roll et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Scientific research on animal biodiversity is systematically biased towards vertebrates and temperate regions

(2017) Mark A. Titley et al.   PLoS One

Model uncertainties do not affect observed patterns of species richness in the Amazon

(2017) Lilian Patrícia Sales et al.   PLoS One

Southern Hemisphere biodiversity and global change: Data gaps and strategies

(2016) Lynda E. Chambers et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Diversity of palm communities at different spatial scales in a recently fragmented tropical landscape

(2016) Luke Browne et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Energy justice and the contested petroleum politics of stranded assets: Policy insights from the Yasuní-ITT Initiative in Ecuador

(2016) Benjamin K. Sovacool et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Climate warming effects in the tropical Andes: first evidence for upslope shifts of Carabidae (Coleoptera) in Ecuador

(2016) Pierre Moret et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Density and activity patterns of ocelot populations in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador

(2016) Julia Salvador et al.   MAMMALIA

Selection of forest species for the rehabilitation of disturbed soils in oil fields in the Ecuadorian Amazon

(2016) Jaime Villacís et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Tropical ecosystems vulnerability to climate change in southern Ecuador

(2016) Paúl Alexander Eguiguren-Velepucha et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Patterns and biases in climate change research on amphibians and reptiles: a systematic review

(2016) Maiken Winter et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Multi-scale habitat use analysis and interspecific Ecology of the Critically Endangered Black-breasted Puffleg Eriocnemis nigrivestis

(2015) ESTEBAN A. GUEVARA et al.   BIRD CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL

Large trees and dense canopies: key factors for maintaining high epiphytic diversity on trunk bases (bryophytes and lichens) in tropical montane forests

(2015) Á. Benítez et al.   FORESTRY

Short-term genetic consequences of habitat loss and fragmentation for the neotropical palm Oenocarpus bataua

(2015) L Browne et al.   HEREDITY

Assessing local vulnerability to climate change in Ecuador

(2015) Mario Andres Fernandez et al.   SpringerPlus

Ecological and Geographical Analysis of the Distribution of the Mountain Tapir (Tapirus pinchaque) in Ecuador: Importance of Protected Areas in Future Scenarios of Global Warming

(2015) H. Mauricio Ortega-Andrade et al.   PLoS One

Deforestation and Forest Fragmentation in South Ecuador since the 1970s – Losing a Hotspot of Biodiversity

(2015) María Fernanda Tapia-Armijos et al.   PLoS One

Current Neotropical ornithology: Research progress 1996–2011

(2014) Juan F. Freile et al.   CONDOR

Using species distributions models for designing conservation strategies of Tropical Andean biodiversity under climate change

(2014) Julian Ramirez-Villegas et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Maximizing species conservation in continental Ecuador: a case of systematic conservation planning for biodiverse regions

(2014) Janeth Lessmann et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Linkages between biodiversity attributes and ecosystem services: A systematic review

(2014) P.A. Harrison et al.   Ecosystem Services

Entomology in Ecuador: Recent developments and future challenges

(2013) Olivier Dangles et al.   ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE

Evaluating multiple causes of amphibian declines of Ecuador using geographical quantitative analyses

(2013) Pablo A. Menéndez-Guerrero et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity

(2013) Hai Cheng et al.   Nature Communications

Fragmentation patterns and systematic transitions of the forested landscape in the upper Amazon region, Ecuador 1990–2008

(2013) Santiago Bonilla-Bedoya et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH

A Biodiversity Informatics Approach to Ethnobotany: Meta-analysis of Plant Use Patterns in Ecuador

(2012) Lucia de la Torre et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Mapping environmental variation in lowland Amazonian rainforests using remote sensing and floristic data

(2012) Anders Sirén et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Range size and climatic niche correlate with the vulnerability of epiphytes to human land use in the tropics

(2012) Nils Köster et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Ecosystem services research in Latin America: The state of the art

(2012) Patricia Balvanera et al.   Ecosystem Services

Testing the accuracy of non-experts in biodiversity monitoring exercises using fern species richness in the Ecuadorian Amazon

(2011) Johan A. Oldekop et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

How anthropogenic disturbances affect the resilience of a keystone palm tree in the threatened Andean cloud forest?

(2011) Fabien Anthelme et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Bridging the gap between forest conservation and poverty alleviation: the Ecuadorian Socio Bosque program

(2011) Free de Koning et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Historic and recent fragmentation coupled with altitude affect the genetic population structure of one of the world's highest tropical tree line species

(2011) Isabell Hensen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Additive threats from pathogens, climate and land-use change for global amphibian diversity

(2011) Christian Hof et al.   NATURE

Genetic insights into the historical distribution of Polylepis pauta (Rosaceae) in the northeastern Cordillera Oriental of Ecuador

(2010) Sheika Aragundi et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Response of vascular epiphyte diversity to different land-use intensities in a neotropical montane wet forest

(2010) Mario L. Larrea et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Global Conservation Significance of Ecuador's Yasuní National Park

(2010) Margot S. Bass et al.   PLoS One

A threshold response to habitat disturbance by forest birds in the Choco Andean corridor, Northwest Ecuador

(2009) Rua S. Mordecai et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Diversity of dry forest epiphytes along a gradient of human disturbance in the tropical Andes

(2009) Florian A. Werner et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Mammal hunting by the Shuar of the Ecuadorian Amazon: is it sustainable?

(2009) Galo Zapata-Ríos et al.   ORYX

Pathogenesis of Chytridiomycosis, a Cause of Catastrophic Amphibian Declines

(2009) J. Voyles et al.   SCIENCE

Conservation strategies to mitigate impacts from climate change in Amazonia

(2008) T. J Killeen et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2008) R. K. Colwell et al.   SCIENCE

Estimates of reserve effectiveness are confounded by leakage

(2008) Robert M. Ewers et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Riding the Wave: Reconciling the Roles of Disease and Climate Change in Amphibian Declines

(2008) Karen R Lips et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Disturbance effects on diversity of epiphytes and moths in a montane forest in Ecuador

(2007) Nicole M. Nöske et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY