Project Funding: 2013 - 2018

NRA: 2013 NSF   

Funded by NASA, Other US Funding: NSF Project Managed by Woody Turner

Abstract:
This research will explain and predict of the distribution of animal and plant species in the endangered yet megadiverse Brazilian Atlantic forest. The investigators will correlate biogeographic and environmental patterns across major clades in order to understand patterns in this biodiversity hotspot. The project will entail study of both climate and landscape, and their changes over the last 120,000 years. This information will enable understanding of how species have responded to repeated environmental shifts of the past. Data from Earth-orbiting satellites will be combined with meteorological data and paleoenvironmental information from the fossil pollen record and ancient precipitation data derived from the geochemistry of deposits found in caves. These data, combined with information on modern species ranges, genetic diversity, physiological tolerances, host-pathogen dynamics, and regional shifts in the composition of the biota will demonstrate how the biodiversity of the Atlantic forest evolved over time. This study will enable the reconstruction of historical factors influencing current biodiversity and, given a range of climate change scenarios, permit the prediction of the future composition of biodiversity in the Atlantic forest or elsewhere. Forest areas of geological stability, physical connectivity, and higher genetic diversity will be identified so that forests or species under extinction threat can be conserved. In response to current concern about the value of ecosystem services and climate change, this study provides a model of how to predict biodiversity change. A travelling exhibit will reach out to commuters in São Paulo and New York. Collaborations among research groups in Brazil and the US is central to the project?s student training plan. The project also strengthens a minority-serving campus, ensuring that North-American students underrepresented in science are exposed to trans-disciplinary, international work.

Publications:

ALADOS, C. L., GOTOR, P., BALLESTER, P., NAVAS, D., ESCOS, J. M., NAVARRO, T., CABEZUDO, B. 2006. Association between competition and facilitation processes and vegetation spatial patterns in alpha steppes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 87(1), 103-113. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00559.x

Albertson, J. D., Montaldo, N. 2003. Temporal dynamics of soil moisture variability: 1. Theoretical basis. Water Resources Research. 39(10). DOI: 10.1029/2002wr001616

Alvarado-Serrano, D. F., Hickerson, M. J. 2015. Spatially explicit summary statistics for historical population genetic inference. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 7(4), 418-427. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.12489

Ashburner, M., Lemeunier, F. 1972. Patterns of puffing activity in the salivary gland chromosomes of Drosophila. Chromosoma. 38(3), 283-295. DOI: 10.1007/bf00290926

Batalha-Filho, H., Miyaki, C. Y. 2016. Late Pleistocene divergence and postglacial expansion in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: multilocus phylogeography of Rhopias gularis (Aves: Passeriformes). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 54(2), 137-147. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12118

Batalha-Filho, H., Pessoa, R. O., Fabre, P., Fjeldsa, J., Irestedt, M., Ericson, P. G., Silveira, L. F., Miyaki, C. Y. 2014. Phylogeny and historical biogeography of gnateaters (Passeriformes, Conopophagidae) in the South America forests. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 79, 422-432. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.025

Bernal, J. P., Cruz, F. W., Strikis, N. M., Wang, X., Deininger, M., Catunda, M. C. A., Ortega-Obregon, C., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., Auler, A. S. 2016. High-resolution Holocene South American monsoon history recorded by a speleothem from Botuvera Cave, Brazil. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 450, 186-196. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.008

Borgogno, F., D'Odorico, P., Laio, F., Ridolfi, L. 2007. Effect of rainfall interannual variability on the stability and resilience of dryland plant ecosystems. Water Resources Research. 43(6). DOI: 10.1029/2006wr005314

Bragagnolo, C., Hara, M. R., Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2015. A new family of Gonyleptoidea from South America (Opiliones, Laniatores). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 173(2), 296-319. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12207

Bragagnolo, C., Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Antunes, M., Clouse, R. M. 2015. Phylogenetics and phylogeography of a long-legged harvestman (Arachnida : Opiliones) in the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest reveals poor dispersal, low diversity and extensive mitochondrial introgression. Invertebrate Systematics. 29(4), 386. DOI: 10.1071/is15009

Brown, J. L., Weber, J. J., Alvarado-Serrano, D. F., Hickerson, M. J., Franks, S. J., Carnaval, A. C. 2016. Predicting the genetic consequences of future climate change: The power of coupling spatial demography, the coalescent, and historical landscape changes. American Journal of Botany. 103(1), 153-163. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1500117

Burbrink, F. T., Chan, Y. L., Myers, E. A., Ruane, S., Smith, B. T., Hickerson, M. J. 2016. Asynchronous demographic responses to Pleistocene climate change in Eastern Nearctic vertebrates. Ecology Letters. 19(12), 1457-1467. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12695

Bustamante, M. G., Cruz, F. W., Vuille, M., Apaestegui, J., Strikis, N., Panizo, G., Novello, F. V., Deininger, M., Sifeddine, A., Cheng, H., Moquet, J. S., Guyot, J. L., Santos, R. V., Segura, H., Edwards, R. L. 2016. Holocene changes in monsoon precipitation in the Andes of NE Peru based on d18O speleothem records. Quaternary Science Reviews. 146, 274-287. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.05.023

Cabanne, G. S., Calderon, L., Trujillo Arias, N., Flores, P., Pessoa, R., d'Horta, F. M., Miyaki, C. Y. 2016. Effects of Pleistocene climate changes on species ranges and evolutionary processes in the Neotropical Atlantic Forest. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 119(4), 856-872. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12844

Cabanne, G. S., Trujillo-Arias, N., Calderon, L., d'Horta, F. M., Miyaki, C. Y. 2014. Phenotypic evolution of an Atlantic Forest passerine (Xiphorhynchus fuscus): biogeographic and systematic implications. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 113(4), 1047-1066. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12362

Camacho, A., Pavao, R., Moreira, C. N., Pinto, A. C. B. C. F., Navas, C. A., Rodrigues, M. T. 2014. Interaction of morphology, thermal physiology and burrowing performance during the evolution of fossoriality in Gymnophthalmini lizards. Functional Ecology. 29(4), 515-521. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12355

Camacho, A., Recoder, R., Teixeira, M., Kohlsdorf, T., Rodrigues, M. T., Lee, M. S. Y. 2016. Overcoming phylogenetic and geographic uncertainties to test for correlates of range size evolution in gymnophthalmid lizards. Ecography. 40(6), 764-773. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.02282

Camacho, A., Rusch, T. W. 2017. Methods and pitfalls of measuring thermal preference and tolerance in lizards. Journal of Thermal Biology. 68, 63-72. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2017.03.010

Carnaval, A. C. 2016. Biogeography, Conservation in: Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology. Elsevier, 141-144. DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-800049-6.00106-2

Carnaval, A. C., Waltari, E., Rodrigues, M. T., Rosauer, D., VanDerWal, J., Damasceno, R., Prates, I., Strangas, M., Spanos, Z., Rivera, D., Pie, M. R., Firkowski, C. R., Bornschein, M. R., Ribeiro, L. F., Moritz, C. 2014. Prediction of phylogeographic endemism in an environmentally complex biome. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 281(1792), 20141461. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1461

Caylor, K. K., D'Odorico, P., Rodriguez-Iturbe, I. 2006. On the ecohydrology of structurally heterogeneous semiarid landscapes. Water Resources Research. 42(7). DOI: 10.1029/2005wr004683

Caylor, K. K., Scanlon, T. M., Rodriguez-Iturbe, I. 2009. Ecohydrological optimization of pattern and processes in water-limited ecosystems: A trade-off-based hypothesis. Water Resources Research. 45(8). DOI: 10.1029/2008wr007230

Chan, Y. L., Schanzenbach, D., Hickerson, M. J. 2014. Detecting Concerted Demographic Response across Community Assemblages Using Hierarchical Approximate Bayesian Computation. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31(9), 2501-2515. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu187

Cook, J. A., Edwards, S. V., Lacey, E. A., Guralnick, R. P., Soltis, P. S., Soltis, D. E., Welch, C. K., Bell, K. C., Galbreath, K. E., Himes, C., Allen, J. M., Heath, T. A., Carnaval, A. C., Cooper, K. L., Liu, M., Hanken, J., Ickert-Bond, S. 2014. Natural History Collections as Emerging Resources for Innovative Education. BioScience. 64(8), 725-734. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biu096

Coronato-Ribeiro, A., Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2015. Four new species of Cosmetus from Panama, with comments on the systematics of the genus (Opiliones: Cosmetidae). Zoologia (Curitiba). 32(5), 409-422. DOI: 10.1590/s1984-46702015000500010

Damasceno, R., Strangas, M. L., Carnaval, A. C., Rodrigues, M. T., Moritz, C. 2014. Revisiting the vanishing refuge model of diversification. Frontiers in Genetics. 5. DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00353

Dantas, G. P. M., Sari, E. H. R., Cabanne, G. S., Pessoa, R. O., Marini, M. A., Miyaki, C. Y., Santos, F. R. 2015. Population genetic structure of the Atlantic Forest endemic Conopophaga lineata (Passeriformes: Conopophagidae) reveals a contact zone in the Atlantic Forest. Journal of Ornithology. 156(1), 85-99. DOI: 10.1007/s10336-014-1106-0

DaSilva, M. B., Pinto-da-Rocha, R., DeSouza, A. M. 2015. A protocol for the delimitation of areas of endemism and the historical regionalization of the B razilian Atlantic Rain Forest using harvestmen distribution data. Cladistics. 31(6), 692-705. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12121

DaSilva, M. B., Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Morrone, J. J. 2016. Historical relationships of areas of endemism of the Brazilian Atlantic rain forest: a cladistic biogeographic analysis of harvestman taxa (Arachnida: Opiliones). Current Zoology. zow092. DOI: 10.1093/cz/zow092

Demos, T. C., Kerbis Peterhans, J. C., Joseph, T. A., Robinson, J. D., Agwanda, B., Hickerson, M. J. 2015. Comparative Population Genomics of African Montane Forest Mammals Support Population Persistence across a Climatic Gradient and Quaternary Climatic Cycles. PLOS ONE. 10(9), e0131800. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131800

Dragoni, D., Caylor, K. K., Schmid, H. P. 2009. Decoupling structural and environmental determinants of sap velocity. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 149(3-4), 570-581. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2008.10.010

Eiman MA, M. 2016. Elucidating the Molecular Basis of Multiple Sclerosis and Understanding the Disease Pathophysiology. Immunome Research. 12(3). DOI: 10.4172/1745-7580.10000125

Fernandez, L. D., Fournier, B., Rivera, R., Lara, E., Mitchell, E. A. D., Hernandez, C. E. 2016. Water-energy balance, past ecological perturbations and evolutionary constraints shape the latitudinal diversity gradient of soil testate amoebae in south-western South America. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25(10), 1216-1227. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12478

Gehara, M., Crawford, A. J., Orrico, V. G. D., Rodriguez, A., Lotters, S., Fouquet, A., Barrientos, L. S., Brusquetti, F., De la Riva, I., Ernst, R., Urrutia, G. G., Glaw, F., Guayasamin, J. M., Holting, M., Jansen, M., Kok, P. J. R., Kwet, A., Lingnau, R., Lyra, M., Moravec, J., Pombal, J. P., Rojas-Runjaic, F. J. M., Schulze, A., Senaris, J. C., Sole, M., Rodrigues, M. T., Twomey, E., Haddad, C. F. B., Vences, M., Kohler, J. 2014. High Levels of Diversity Uncovered in a Widespread Nominal Taxon: Continental Phylogeography of the Neotropical Tree Frog Dendropsophus minutus. PLoS ONE. 9(9), e103958. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103958

Goicoechea, N., Frost, D. R., De la Riva, I., Pellegrino, K. C. M., Sites, J., Rodrigues, M. T., Padial, J. M. 2016. Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree-alignment and similarity-alignment. Cladistics. 32(6), 624-671. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12150

Graham, C. H., Carnaval, A. C., Cadena, C. D., Zamudio, K. R., Roberts, T. E., Parra, J. L., McCain, C. M., Bowie, R. C. K., Moritz, C., Baines, S. B., Schneider, C. J., VanDerWal, J., Rahbek, C., Kozak, K. H., Sanders, N. J. 2014. The origin and maintenance of montane diversity: integrating evolutionary and ecological processes. Ecography. 37(8), 711-719. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.00578

Grohmann, C. H. 2015. Effects of spatial resolution on slope and aspect derivation for regional-scale analysis. Computers & Geosciences. 77, 111-117. DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2015.02.003

Grohmann, C. H. 2016. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS AND ULTRA-PROMINENT MOUNTAIN PEAKS. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. III-4, 17-23. DOI: 10.5194/isprs-annals-iii-4-17-2016

Gu, F., Zonneveld, K. A., Chiessi, C. M., Arz, H. W., Patzold, J., Behling, H. 2017. Long-term vegetation, climate and ocean dynamics inferred from a 73,500 years old marine sediment core (GeoB2107-3) off southern Brazil. Quaternary Science Reviews. 172, 55-71. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.06.028

HARA, M. R., BRAGAGNOLO, C., PINTO-DA-ROCHA, R. 2017. Revision of Thaumatocranaus Roewer, 1932, with description of two new species (Opiliones: Laniatores: Gonyleptoidea). Zootaxa. 4254(4), 457. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.4.3

Harvey, M. S., Andrade, R., Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2016. The first New World species of the pseudoscorpion family Feaellidae (Pseudoscorpiones: Feaelloidea) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Journal of Arachnology. 44(2), 227-234. DOI: 10.1636/joa-s-16-007

Hoffmann, W. A., Lucatelli, V. M. P. C., Silva, F. J., Azeuedo, I. N. C., Marinho, M. D. S., Albuquerque, A. M. S., Lopes, A. D. O., Moreira, S. P. 2004. Impact of the invasive alien grass Melinis minutiflora at the savanna-forest ecotone in the Brazilian Cerrado. Diversity and Distributions. 10(2), 99-103. DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2004.00063.x

Joseph, T. A., Hickerson, M. J., Alvarado-Serrano, D. F. 2016. Demographic inference under a spatially continuous coalescent model. Heredity. 117(2), 94-99. DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2016.28

Kis, A., Vasarhelyi, G. 2008. Developing system to detect and analyze spatio-temporal tactile events. 2008 11th International Workshop on Cellular Neural Networks and Their Applications. DOI: 10.1109/cnna.2008.4588641

Kovalenko, P., DiCioccio, A., Davis, J., Li, M., Ardeleanu, M., Graham, N., Soltys, R. 2016. Exploratory Population PK Analysis of Dupilumab, a Fully Human Monoclonal Antibody Against IL-4Ra, in Atopic Dermatitis Patients and Normal Volunteers. CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology. 5(11), 617-624. DOI: 10.1002/psp4.12136

Lavinia, P. D., Escalante, P., Garcia, N. C., Barreira, A. S., Trujillo-Arias, N., Tubaro, P. L., Naoki, K., Miyaki, C. Y., Santos, F. R., Lijtmaer, D. A. 2015. Continental-scale analysis reveals deep diversification within the polytypic Red-crowned Ant Tanager (Habia rubica, Cardinalidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 89, 182-193. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.04.018

Leblois, R., Pudlo, P., Neron, J., Bertaux, F., Reddy Beeravolu, C., Vitalis, R., Rousset, F. 2014. Maximum-Likelihood Inference of Population Size Contractions from Microsatellite Data. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31(10), 2805-2823. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu212

Ledru, M., Montade, V., Blanchard, G., Hely, C. 2015. Long-term Spatial Changes in the Distribution of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Biotropica. 48(2), 159-169. DOI: 10.1111/btp.12266

Ledru, M., Reimold, W. U., Ariztegui, D., Bard, E., Crosta, A. P., Riccomini, C., Sawakuchi, A. O. 2015. Why deep drilling in the Colonia Basin (Brazil)? Scientific Drilling. 20, 33-39. DOI: 10.5194/sd-20-33-2015

Lipshutz, S. E., Overcast, I. A., Hickerson, M. J., Brumfield, R. T., Derryberry, E. P. 2017. Behavioural response to song and genetic divergence in two subspecies of white-crowned sparrows ( Zonotrichia leucophrys ). Molecular Ecology. 26(11), 3011-3027. DOI: 10.1111/mec.14002

Maestri, R., Fornel, R., Goncalves, G. L., Geise, L., Freitas, T. R. O., Carnaval, A. C. 2016. Predictors of intraspecific morphological variability in a tropical hotspot: comparing the influence of random and non-random factors. Journal of Biogeography. 43(11), 2160-2172. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12815

May, R., Catenazzi, A., Corl, A., Santa-Cruz, R., Carnaval, A. C., Moritz, C. 2017. Divergence of thermal physiological traits in terrestrial breeding frogs along a tropical elevational gradient. Ecology and Evolution. 7(9), 3257-3267. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2929

Miller, G. R., Cable, J. M., McDonald, A. K., Bond, B., Franz, T. E., Wang, L., Gou, S., Tyler, A. P., Zou, C. B., Scott, R. L. 2011. Understanding ecohydrological connectivity in savannas: a system dynamics modelling approach. Ecohydrology. 5(2), 200-220. DOI: 10.1002/eco.245

Montade, V., Diogo, I. J. S., Bremond, L., Favier, C., Costa, I. R. D., Ledru, M., Paradis, L., Martins, E. S. P. R., Burte, J., Silva, F. H. M. E., Verola, C. F. 2016. Pollen-based characterization of montane forest types in north-eastern Brazil. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 234, 147-158. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.07.003

MONTEIRO, Y. F., PINTO-DA-ROCHA, R. 2015. <p><strong>Revision of the genus <em>Ferkeria</em> Roewer, 1947, with the description of a new species (Opiliones: Laniatores: Cosmetidae)</strong></p>. Zootaxa. 4006(2), 361. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4006.2.7

Montemor, V. M., Bragagnolo, C., Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2015. Taxonomic review of the Neotropical genus Neopachylus (Arachnida, Opiliones, Gonyleptidae). Iheringia. Serie Zoologia. 105(1), 101-121. DOI: 10.1590/1678-476620151051101121

Moquet, J. S., Cruz, F. W., Novello, V. F., Strikis, N. M., Deininger, M., Karmann, I., Santos, R. V., Millo, C., Apaestegui, J., Guyot, J., Siffedine, A., Vuille, M., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., Santini, W. 2016. Calibration of speleothem d 18 O records against hydroclimate instrumental records in Central Brazil. Global and Planetary Change. 139, 151-164. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.02.001

Mori, B. J., Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2014. Taxonomic revision of Parampheres (Arachnida: Opiliones: Gonyleptidae). Zoologia (Curitiba). 31(6), 541-556. DOI: 10.1590/s1984-46702014000600003

Myers, E. A., Hickerson, M. J., Burbrink, F. T. 2016. Asynchronous diversification of snakes in the North American warm deserts. Journal of Biogeography. 44(2), 461-474. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12873

Novello, V. F., Cruz, F. W., Vuille, M., Strikis, N. M., Edwards, R. L., Cheng, H., Emerick, S., de Paula, M. S., Li, X., Barreto, E. D. S., Karmann, I., Santos, R. V. 2017. A high-resolution history of the South American Monsoon from Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene. Scientific Reports. 7(1). DOI: 10.1038/srep44267

Novello, V. F., Vuille, M., Cruz, F. W., Strikis, N. M., de Paula, M. S., Edwards, R. L., Cheng, H., Karmann, I., Jaqueto, P. F., Trindade, R. I. F., Hartmann, G. A., Moquet, J. S. 2016. Centennial-scale solar forcing of the South American Monsoon System recorded in stalagmites. Scientific Reports. 6(1). DOI: 10.1038/srep24762

Okin, G. S., Mladenov, N., Wang, L., Cassel, D., Caylor, K. K., Ringrose, S., Macko, S. A. 2008. Spatial patterns of soil nutrients in two southern African savannas. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 113(G2). DOI: 10.1029/2007jg000584

Orrico, V. G. D., Lingnau, R., Giasson, L. O. M. 2009. The Advertisement Call ofDendropsophus nahdereri(Anura, Hylidae, Dendropsophini). South American Journal of Herpetology. 4(3), 295-299. DOI: 10.2994/057.004.0313

Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Andrade, R., Moreno-Gonzalez, J. A. 2016. Two new cave-dwelling genera of short-tailed whip-scorpions from Brazil (Arachnida: Schizomida: Hubbardiidae). Zoologia (Curitiba). 33(2). DOI: 10.1590/s1984-4689zool-20150195

Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Bragagnolo, C. 2017. Cladistic analysis of the family Nomoclastidae with descriptions of a new genus and eight new species (Opiliones, Laniatores). Invertebrate Systematics. 31(1), 91. DOI: 10.1071/is15050

Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Bragagnolo, C., Tourinho, A. L. 2014. <strong>Three new species of <em>Thrasychiroides</em> Soares &amp; Soares, 1947 from Brazilian Mountains (Opiliones, Eupnoi, Neopilionidae)</strong>. Zootaxa. 3869(4), 469. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3869.4.9

Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Fonseca-Ferreira, R., Bichuette, M. 2015. A new highly specialized cave harvestman from Brazil and the first blind species of the genus: Iandumoema smeagol sp. n. (Arachnida, Opiliones, Gonyleptidae). ZooKeys. 537, 79-95. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.537.6073

Prates, I., Hernandez, L., Samelo, R. R., Carnaval, A. C. 2016. Molecular Identification and Geographic Origin of an Exotic Anole Lizard Introduced to Brazil, with Remarks on Its Natural History. South American Journal of Herpetology. 11(3), 220-227. DOI: 10.2994/sajh-d-16-00042.1

Prates, I., Melo-Sampaio, P. R., Drummond, L. D. O., Teixeira, M., Rodrigues, M. T., Carnaval, A. C. 2017. Biogeographic links between southern Atlantic Forest and western South America: Rediscovery, re-description, and phylogenetic relationships of two rare montane anole lizards from Brazil. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 113, 49-58. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.05.009

Prates, I., Rivera, D., Rodrigues, M. T., Carnaval, A. C. 2016. A mid- P leistocene rainforest corridor enabled synchronous invasions of the A tlantic F orest by A mazonian anole lizards. Molecular Ecology. 25(20), 5174-5186. DOI: 10.1111/mec.13821

Prates, I., Rodrigues, M. T., Melo-Sampaio, P. R., Carnaval, A. C. 2015. Phylogenetic relationships of Amazonian anole lizards (Dactyloa): Taxonomic implications, new insights about phenotypic evolution and the timing of diversification. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 82, 258-268. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.005

Prates, I., Xue, A. T., Brown, J. L., Alvarado-Serrano, D. F., Rodrigues, M. T., Hickerson, M. J., Carnaval, A. C. 2016. Inferring responses to climate dynamics from historical demography in neotropical forest lizards. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(29), 7978-7985. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1601063113

Raposo do Amaral, F., Edwards, S. V., Pie, M. R., Jennings, W. B., Svensson-Coelho, M., d'Horta, F. M., Schmitt, C. J., Maldonado-Coelho, M. 2016. The "Atlantis Forest hypothesis" does not explain Atlantic Forest phylogeography. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(15). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1602213113

Recoder, R. S., De Pinho Werneck, F., Teixeira, M., Colli, G. R., Sites, J. W., Rodrigues, M. T. 2014. Geographic variation and systematic review of the lizard genusVanzosaura(Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae), with the description of a new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 171(1), 206-225. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12128

Roberts, J., Herkert, J., Rutberg, J., Nikkel, S., Wiesfeld, A., Dooijes, D., Gow, R., van Tintelen, J., Gollob, M. 2012. Detection of genomic deletions ofPKP2in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. Clinical Genetics. 83(5), 452-456. DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2012.01950.x

Robinson, J. D., Bunnefeld, L., Hearn, J., Stone, G. N., Hickerson, M. J. 2014. ABC inference of multi-population divergence with admixture from unphased population genomic data. Molecular Ecology. 23(18), 4458-4471. DOI: 10.1111/mec.12881

Robinson, J. D., Coffman, A. J., Hickerson, M. J., Gutenkunst, R. N. 2014. Sampling strategies for frequency spectrum-based population genomic inference. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14(1). DOI: 10.1186/s12862-014-0254-4

Rocha, L. A., Aleixo, A., Allen, G., Almeda, F., Baldwin, C. C., Barclay, M. V. L., Bates, J. M., Bauer, A. M., Benzoni, F., Berns, C. M., Berumen, M. L., Blackburn, D. C., Blum, S., Bolanos, F., Bowie, R. C. K., Britz, R., Brown, R. M., Cadena, C. D., Carpenter, K., Ceriaco, L. M., Chakrabarty, P., Chaves, G., Choat, J. H., Clements, K. D., Collette, B. B., Collins, A., Coyne, J., Cracraft, J., Daniel, T., de Carvalho, M. R., de Queiroz, K., Di Dario, F., Drewes, R., Dumbacher, J. P., Engilis, A., Erdmann, M. V., Eschmeyer, W., Feldman, C. R., Fisher, B. L., Fjeldsa, J., Fritsch, P. W., Fuchs, J., Getahun, A., Gill, A., Gomon, M., Gosliner, T., Graves, G. R., Griswold, C. E., Guralnick, R., Hartel, K., Helgen, K. M., Ho, H., Iskandar, D. T., Iwamoto, T., Jaafar, Z., James, H. F., Johnson, D., Kavanaugh, D., Knowlton, N., Lacey, E., Larson, H. K., Last, P., Leis, J. M., Lessios, H., Liebherr, J., Lowman, M., Mahler, D. L., Mamonekene, V., Matsuura, K., Mayer, G. C., Mays, H., McCosker, J., McDiarmid, R. W., McGuire, J., Miller, M. J., Mooi, R., Mooi, R. D., Moritz, C., Myers, P., Nachman, M. W., Nussbaum, R. A., Foighil, D. O., Parenti, L. R., Parham, J. F., Paul, E., Paulay, G., Perez-Eman, J., Perez-Matus, A., Poe, S., Pogonoski, J., Rabosky, D. L., Randall, J. E., Reimer, J. D., Robertson, D. R., Rodel, M., Rodrigues, M. T., Roopnarine, P., Ruber, L., Ryan, M. J., Sheldon, F., Shinohara, G., Short, A., Simison, W. B., Smith-Vaniz, W. F., Springer, V. G., Stiassny, M., Tello, J. G., Thompson, C. W., Trnski, T., Tucker, P., Valqui, T., Vecchione, M., Verheyen, E., Wainwright, P. C., Wheeler, T. A., White, W. T., Will, K., Williams, J. T., Williams, G., Wilson, E. O., Winker, K., Winterbottom, R., Witt, C. C. 2014. Specimen collection: An essential tool. Science. 344(6186), 814-815. DOI: 10.1126/science.344.6186.814

Rodrigues, M. T., Bertolotto, C. E. V., Amaro, R. C., Yonenaga-Yassuda, Y., Freire, E. M. X., Pellegrino, K. C. M. 2014. Molecular phylogeny, species limits, and biogeography of the Brazilian endemic lizard genus Enyalius (Squamata: Leiosauridae): An example of the historical relationship between Atlantic Forests and Amazonia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 81, 137-146. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.07.019

Smith, B. T., McCormack, J. E., Cuervo, A. M., Hickerson, M. J., Aleixo, A., Cadena, C. D., Perez-Eman, J., Burney, C. W., Xie, X., Harvey, M. G., Faircloth, B. C., Glenn, T. C., Derryberry, E. P., Prejean, J., Fields, S., Brumfield, R. T. 2014. The drivers of tropical speciation. Nature. 515(7527), 406-409. DOI: 10.1038/nature13687

Springer, A. E., Stevens, L. E., Ledbetter, J. D., Schaller, E. M., Gill, K. M., Rood, S. B. 2015. Ecohydrology and stewardship of Alberta springs ecosystems. Ecohydrology. 8(5), 896-910. DOI: 10.1002/eco.1596

Svensson-Coelho, M., Silva, G. T., Santos, S. S., Miranda, L. S., Araujo-Silva, L. E., Ricklefs, R. E., Miyaki, C. Y., Maldonado-Coelho, M. 2016. Lower Detection Probability of AvianPlasmodiumin Blood Compared to Other Tissues. Journal of Parasitology. 102(5), 559-561. DOI: 10.1645/16-8

Teixeira, M., Prates, I., Nisa, C., Silva-Martins, N. S. C., Strussmann, C., Rodrigues, M. T. 2016. Molecular data reveal spatial and temporal patterns of diversification and a cryptic new species of lowland Stenocercus Dumeril & Bibron, 1837 (Squamata: Tropiduridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 94, 410-423. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.09.010

Therrell, M. D., Stahle, D. W., Mukelabai, M. M., Shugart, H. H. 2007. Age, and radial growth dynamics of Pterocarpus angolensis in southern Africa. Forest Ecology and Management. 244(1-3), 24-31. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.03.023

Therrell, M. D., Stahle, D. W., Ries, L. P., Shugart, H. H. 2006. Tree-ring reconstructed rainfall variability in Zimbabwe. Climate Dynamics. 26(7-8), 677-685. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-005-0108-2

TOURINHO, A. L., PINTO-DA-ROCHA, R., BRAGAGNOLO, C. 2015. <p><strong>Taxonomic notes on <em>Holcobunus</em> Roewer, 1910, with descriptions of three new species, and new records for <em>Holcobunus</em> <em>nigripalpis</em> Roewer, 1910</strong><br /><strong>(Opiliones: Eupnoi: Sclerosomatidae)</strong></p>. Zootaxa. 4027(3), 425. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4027.3.6

Traff, D. C., Niemann, J. D., Middlekauff, S. A., Lehman, B. M. 2014. Effects of woody vegetation on shallow soil moisture at a semiarid montane catchment. Ecohydrology. 8(5), 935-947. DOI: 10.1002/eco.1542

Vieira, B., Dias, D., Piacentini, V., Correia, E., Serafini, P. 2014. Birds of Estacao Ecologica de Carijos, southern Brazil. Check List. 10(5), 1110-1122. DOI: 10.15560/10.5.1110

Villarreal M, O., Kury, A. B., Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2015. The poorly known genus Ventrifurca Roewer, 1913 revisited (Opiliones: Cranaidae). Zoological Studies. 54(1). DOI: 10.1186/s40555-015-0117-8

Waltari, E., Schroeder, R., McDonald, K., Anderson, R. P., Carnaval, A. 2014. Bioclimatic variables derived from remote sensing: assessment and application for species distribution modelling. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 5(10), 1033-1042. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.12264

Wang, L. Soil Biogeochemistry, Aridity and Plant Adaptation Responses in Southern Africa Savannas DOI: 10.18130/v3x56p

Wang, L., D'Odorico, P., Manzoni, S., Porporato, A., Macko, S. 2009. Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics in southern African savannas: the effect of vegetation-induced patch-scale heterogeneities and large scale rainfall gradients. Climatic Change. 94(1-2), 63-76. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9548-8

Wang, L., D'Odorico, P., O'Halloran, L. R., Caylor, K., Macko, S. 2009. Combined effects of soil moisture and nitrogen availability variations on grass productivity in African savannas. Plant and Soil. 328(1-2), 95-108. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-009-0085-z

Wang, L., D'Odorico, P., Okin, G. S., Macko, S. A. 2009. Isotope composition and anion chemistry of soil profiles along the Kalahari Transect. Journal of Arid Environments. 73(4-5), 480-486. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2008.11.010

Wang, L., D'Odorico, P., Ries, L., Macko, S. A. 2017. Patterns and implications of Plant-soil d13C and d15N values in African savanna ecosystems. Quaternary Research. 73(1), 77-83. DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2008.11.004

Wang, L., D'Odorico, P., Ringrose, S., Coetzee, S., Macko, S. A. 2007. Biogeochemistry of Kalahari sands. Journal of Arid Environments. 71(3), 259-279. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2007.03.016

Wang, L., Okin, G. S., D'Odorico, P., Caylor, K. K., Macko, S. A. 2012. Ecosystem-scale spatial heterogeneity of stable isotopes of soil nitrogen in African savannas. Landscape Ecology. 28(4), 685-698. DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9776-6

Wang, L., Okin, G. S., Macko, S. A. 2009. Remote Sensing of Nitrogen and Carbon Isotope Compositions in Terrestrial Ecosystems in: Isoscapes. Springer Netherlands, 51-70. DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3354-3_3

Wang, L., Shaner, P. L., Macko, S. 2007. Foliard15N patterns along successional gradients at plant community and species levels. Geophysical Research Letters. 34(16). DOI: 10.1029/2007gl030722

Xue, A. T., Hickerson, M. J. 2015. The aggregate site frequency spectrum for comparative population genomic inference. Molecular Ecology. 24(24), 6223-6240. DOI: 10.1111/mec.13447

Xue, A. T., Hickerson, M. J. 2017. multi-dice : r package for comparative population genomic inference under hierarchical co-demographic models of independent single-population size changes. Molecular Ecology Resources. 17(6). DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12686

Zamborlini Saiter, F., Brown, J. L., Thomas, W. W., Oliveira-Filho, A. T., Carnaval, A. C. 2016. Environmental correlates of floristic regions and plant turnover in the Atlantic Forest hotspot. Journal of Biogeography. 43(12), 2322-2331. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12774

More details may be found in the following project profile(s):

• NASA Biological Diversity & Ecological Conservation (BDEC) Project Profile