New article on sampling bias in North Atlantic Forest fruit-feeding butterflies

Posted by Joaquín Hortal | Jun 25, 2021 | Destacada, English, Publications, Research | 0 |

In a new article by Thadeu Sobral-Souza and collaborators, we show that data on fruit-feeding forest butterflies is biased, in particular to large forest fragments, hampering our ability to predict the effects of deforestation on species diversity and population viability in the small forest fragments that are typical of the areas suffering from progressively stronger human management.

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About The Author

Joaquín Hortal

I am a biogeographer with broad interests in macroecology, community ecology, island biogeography, insect ecology, evolution, and biodiversity research. My main research aim is to determine why biodiversity – and in particular community structure – is geographically distributed the way it is, and to identify the processes that domain the spatial and temporal dynamics of ecological assemblages. I work as Scientific Researcher at the Department of Biogeography and Global Change of the Natural History Museum in Madrid (MNCN), a research institute of the Spanish Scientific Council (CSIC). I am also External Professor at the Departamento de Ecologia of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) in Brazil, and Associate Researcher of the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c) of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon in Portugal.