Publications by authors named "D B Provete"
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- - The study investigates how climate variables affect frog communities in urban ecosystems in Brazil, focusing on species richness, abundance, and temporal dynamics over three years.
- - Researchers used statistical models and various methods to analyze seasonality and biodiversity, finding that species richness remained relatively stable, while species abundance fluctuated more due to factors like humidity and temperature.
- - The results suggest that frog species composition in peri-urban areas tends to remain consistent over time, even amidst climate variations, which provides insights into species coexistence mechanisms and the effects of urbanization on biodiversity.
The Pace-of-Life syndrome proposes that behavioural, physiological and immune characteristics vary along a slow-fast gradient. Urbanization poses several physiological challenges to organisms. However, little is known about how the health status of frogs is affected by urbanization in the Tropics, which have a faster and more recent urbanization than the northern hemisphere.
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- Journals should mandate that open data is archived in a user-friendly format, making it easy for readers to access and understand.
- Consistent application of these requirements would lead to better recognition for contributors, allowing them to receive citations for their open data.
- This practice would ultimately promote scientific advancement by improving data transparency and accessibility.
Janzen's hypothesis (JH) posits that low thermal variation selects for narrow physiological tolerances, and thus small species distributional ranges and high species turnover along tropical elevational gradients. Although this hypothesis has been intensely revisited, it does not explain how many tropical species may exhibit broad distributions, encompassing altitudinal gradients. Moreover, the physiological responses of tropical species remain largely unknown, limiting our understanding on how they respond to climate variation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlobal demand for crops will continue increasing over the next few decades to cover both food and biofuel needs. This demand will put further pressure to expand arable land and replace natural habitats. However, we are only beginning to understand the combined effects of agrochemicals and land-use change on tropical freshwater biodiversity.
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