🔗 Read the full article "Scale-Dependent Effects of Landscape Heterogeneity on Butterfly Functional and Taxonomic Diversity in Andean Urban Parks" 🌐here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#FunctionalEcology #UrbanBiodiversity #Conservation #Butterflies

🌍 Conservation conclusions:
✅ Protecting connectivity between parks and water bodies is key.
✅ Planting tall native trees promotes higher functional diversity.
✅ Creating ecological corridors between small and large parks supports species dispersal. #EcologicalRestoration

🦋 How do small or fragmented parks affect butterflies?
Smaller and fragmented parks show lower diversity and more homogenized species assemblages.
⚠️ We need parks with native vegetation and proximity to water bodies to promote biodiversity!

🌳 What influences butterfly diversity in urban parks?
✔️ The height of native trees is strongly associated with functional diversity.
✔️ Connectivity between parks enhances both taxonomic and functional diversity.

🌱 Why is it important?
Preserving Amazonian ecosystems requires enhancing forest connectivity and restoring native vegetation at the forest edges to mitigate the negative impacts of habitat fragmentation. 🐸🌐
#Biodiversity #Amphibians #LandscapeEcology #EcologicalRestoration #AmazonRainforest

✔️ Forest edges act as ecological filters, limiting the colonization of pasture species into forest interiors via environmental gradients and functional competition.

✔️ In pastures, environmental filtering plays a major role in shaping amphibian assemblages, while limiting similarity governs the assemblage in forest interiors.
✔️ Functional diversity is more influenced by landscape connectivity, leaf litter depth, and humidity rather than edge effects alone

🌱💡 What role do functional pollinator ecology studies play in adaptation to socio-environmental change? How can we integrate this scientific knowledge into public policies? #ScientificEducation #SocialChange #EnvironmentalPolicy #Pollination #Ecology

💡 Functional traits related to the amount of body hair in bees, which aid in pollen adhesion, showed no correlation with the total pollen amount, nor with granadilla pollen. #FunctionalTraits #Pollination #Biodiversity #Bees #Sustainability

🐝 The invasive species Apis mellifera, while the most abundant and large-bodied bee, DOES NOT carry pollen from native species nor from granadilla, making it a POOR pollinator for these crops. #Pollination #ApisMellifera #InvasiveSpecies #Ecology #Biodiversity

🔬 Body size in NATIVE bees is crucial for efficient pollen transport. Studies on insect pollinators can boost productivity and protect biodiversity. 🌻📚 #Sustainability #Pollinators #Ecology #AgriculturalEcology #Biodiversity

1. Anuran diversity was more influenced by landscape configuration (e.g., number of patches, water bodies) than composition.
2. Abundance was linked to structurally complex vegetation (e.g., rosettes, scrublands).
#LandscapeEcology #AmphibianConservation #TropicalEcology #DroneTechnology #Ecology

✔️ At 50m, larger contiguous habitats increased abundance, while fragmentation reduced it.
✔️ At 100m to 200m water bodies and scrubby vegetation like Chusquea spp. were key for species persistence, such as Dendropsophus molitor, which need water for larval development. @amphibianspecies.bsky.social

✔️ Landscape configuration is a crucial factor for species persistence.
✔️ Limited mobility: Species success depends on their movement between vegetation mosaics in these high-altitude ecosystems.
✔️ Conservation efforts should focus on maintaining connectivity and vegetation complexity.

#amphibians

✔️ Landscape configuration (number of water bodies, patches of dense scrub with Chusquea spp.) had a greater impact on anuran diversity than habitat composition.
✔️ Abundance: Positive correlation with complex vegetation types like rosettes and dense scrublands.
#Biodiversity #TropicalEcology

📚 Published in @RevMexBiodiv
🔗 Article: revista.ib.unam.mx/index.php/bi...

🐸 Check out also our tadpole study from the Colombian Orinoco:
👉 www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

#NeotropicalScience #OpenAccessScience #FreshwaterBiodiversity

🔍 Conserving permanent, shaded water bodies surrounded by intact forest is key for protecting larval amphibians like E. bivocata.
🌿 Changes in vegetation cover alter pond microhabitats and reduce their suitability.
#ConservationBiology #TropicalForests #AmphibianDecline

Lithobates vaillanti inhabits ponds in secondary vegetation and in recently cleared forest areas with silty substrate and leaf litter in secondary/tallied forest (24°C)

#Amphibians #RainforestConservation #TropicalBiology

🌿 Species-specific pond preferences in rainforest:
✔️ Exerodonta bivocata: permanent ponds with flow, rocks, and decapods in shaded primary forest (22°C)
✔️ Incilius valliceps: temporary ponds without predators, pH 7.2, in secondary forest with branches and litter
#Tadpoles #TropicalHerpetology