Fabrício Beggiato Baccaro
A5023992718- Plant and animal studies
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Forest ecology and management
- COVID-19 impact on air quality
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control
- Environmental Sustainability and Education
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Avian ecology and behavior
Universidade Federal do Amazonas
2016-2025
Universidade da Amazônia
2025
Universidade Federal do Pará
2025
National Institute of Amazonian Research
2012-2024
Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica
2020
Thermal sensitivity of tropical trees A key uncertainty in climate change models is the thermal forests and how this value might influence carbon fluxes. Sullivan et al. measured stocks fluxes permanent forest plots distributed globally. This synthesis plot networks across climatic biogeographic gradients shows that dominated by high daytime temperatures. extreme condition depresses growth rates shortens time resides ecosystem killing under hot, dry conditions. The effect temperature worse...
Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear understanding how ecological communities respond environmental change across time space.3,4 While increasing availability global databases on has advanced knowledge biodiversity sensitivity changes,5,6,7 vast areas tropics remain understudied.8,9,10,11 In American tropics, Amazonia stands out as world's most diverse rainforest primary source Neotropical biodiversity,12 but remains among...
Background: Plant composition changes with topography and edaphic gradients that correlate soil-water nutrient availability. Data on soil water for the Amazon Basin are scarce, limiting possibility of distinguishing between influences plant composition. Aim: We tested a new proxy table depth, terrain height above nearest drainage (HAND), as predictor in trees, lianas, palms, shrubs, herbs compared HAND to conventional measures sea level (HASL) horizontal distances from (HDND). Methods:...
Abstract In recent years the focus in ecology has shifted from species to a greater emphasis on functional traits. tandem with this shift, number of trait databases have been developed covering range taxa. Here, we introduce GlobalAnts database. Globally, ants are dominant, diverse and provide ecosystem functions. The database represents significant tool for that it (i) contributes global archive ant traits (morphology, life history) which complements existing (ii) promotes trait‐based...
There is evidence that COVID-19, the disease caused by betacoronavirus SARS-CoV-2, sensitive to environmental conditions. However, such conditions often correlate with demographic and socioeconomic factors at larger spatial extents, which could confound this inference. We evaluated effect of meteorological (temperature, solar radiation, air humidity precipitation) on 292 daily records cumulative number confirmed COVID-19 cases across 27 Brazilian capital cities during 1st month outbreak,...
Acoustic monitoring has proven to be an effective tool for biotic soundscapes in the marine, terrestrial, and aquatic realms. Recently it been suggested that could also method soil soundscapes, but used very few studies, primarily temperate polar regions. We present first study of using passive acoustic tropical forests, a novel analytical pipeline allowing use in-situ recording with minimal disturbance. found significant differences index values between burnt unburnt forests indications...
The Brazilian Amazon is one of Earth's most biodiverse and ecologically important regions. However, research investments for biodiversity in the biome are disproportionately low compared with other regions Brazil. In 2022, received 13% master's, doctoral postdoctoral scholarships hosted 11% all researchers working postgraduate programs. Amazonian institutions approximately 10% federal budget spent on grants about 23% resources destined to support long-term ecological sites. cities Manaus...
Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt climate change is pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this still widely unknown. This knowledge gap particularly acute in high-biodiversity tropical forests. Here, we examined how Americas have shifted community trait composition recent decades as a response changes climate. Based on historical trait-climate relationships, found that, overall, studied functional traits show shifts less than 8% what would be expected given observed...
Many studies have focused on the impacts of climate change biological assemblages, yet little is known about how interacts with other major anthropogenic influences biodiversity, such as habitat disturbance. Using a unique global database 1128 local ant we examined whether mediates effects disturbance assemblage structure at scale. Species richness and evenness were associated positively temperature, negatively However, interaction among precipitation shaped species evenness. The effect was...
Abstract To determine the effect of rivers, environmental conditions, and isolation by distance on distribution species in Amazonia. Location: Brazilian Time period: Current. Major taxa studied: Birds, fishes, bats, ants, termites, butterflies, ferns + lycophytes, gingers palms. We compiled a unique dataset biotic abiotic information from 822 plots spread over Amazon. evaluated effects environment, geographic dispersal barriers (rivers) assemblage composition animal plant using multivariate...
Abstract Purpose Large parts of the Amazon rainforest grow on weathered soils depleted in phosphorus and rock-derived cations. We tested hypothesis that this ecosystem, fine roots stimulate decomposition nutrient release from leaf litter biochemically by releasing enzymes, exuding labile carbon stimulating microbial decomposers. Methods monitored a Central tropical rainforest, where were either present or excluded, over 188 days added substrates (glucose citric acid) fully factorial design....
Abstract Aim Despite the accelerating loss of biodiversity and increased number methods for conservation planning, availability information about spatial distribution remains limited. One way to overcome this problem is focus on surrogate resolutions that are able represent species‐level data can be efficiently measured. Surrogates only useful if ecological patterns detected at still hold when based coarser taxonomic identification, these responses consistent across regions. We present a...
Abstract Aim Habitat loss and fragmentation are considered the main drivers of species population declines extinctions in world. The large‐scale replacement natural habitats with human‐modified habitats, such as forests agricultural livestock farming areas, creates a scenario where habitat patches immersed an inhospitable land use matrix. We sought to evaluate how forest fragments (FFs) influenced by different surrounding landscape components, we assessed matrices that differ structure...
Várzea forests account for 17% of the Amazon basin and endure an annual inundation that can reach 14 m deep during 6–8 months. This flood pulse in combination with topography directly influences várzea vegetation cover. Assemblages several taxa differ significantly between unflooded terra firme flooded forests, but little is known about distribution medium large sized terrestrial mammals habitats. Therefore, our goal was to understand how those habitats influence mammalian species dry...
Mist nets set at ground level is the traditional method of surveying bats and in Amazon, almost half bat surveys used this methodology. The sole use ground-level mist biases because lack records aerial insectivorous bats, which forage above canopy or other open areas. Canopy nets, roost searches acoustic are methods to survey assemblages, but their efficiency compared has not been fully evaluated world's largest tropical rainforest. Here, we test how complementarity sampling contributes...
Historical ecologists have demonstrated legacy effects in apparently wild landscapes Europe, North America, Mesoamerica, Amazonia, Africa and Oceania. People live farm archaeological sites today many parts of the world, but nobody has looked for legacies past human occupations most dynamic areas these sites: homegardens. Here we show that useful flora modern homegardens is partially a pre-Columbian Central Amazonia: more complex context, variable floristic composition native plants...
Abstract The relationship between levels of dominance and species richness is highly contentious, especially in ant communities. dominance‐impoverishment rule states that high only occur species‐poor communities, but there appear to be many cases diverse extent which dominant limit local through competitive exclusion remains unclear, such appears more apparent for non‐native rather than native species. Here we perform the first global analysis behavioral richness. We used data from 1,293...
What forces structure ecological assemblages? A key limitation to general insights about assemblage is the availability of data that are collected at a small spatial grain (local assemblages) and large extent (global coverage). Here, we present published unpublished from 51 ,388 ant abundance occurrence records more than 2,693 species 7,953 morphospecies local assemblages 4,212 locations around world. Ants were selected because they diverse abundant globally, comprise fraction animal biomass...
Summary A negative relationship between stand biomass and the density of stems is expected to develop during self‐thinning process in resource‐limited forests; this leads a large proportion total occurring trees. Nevertheless, frequent disturbance regimes can reduce accumulation We investigated size–density relationships contribution trees (dbh ≥ 70 cm) 55 1‐ha plots along 600 km transect central‐southern Amazonia. The effects natural‐disturbance gradients (frequency storms soil...