Functional traits of broad-leaved monocot herbs in the understory and forest edges of a Costa Rican rainforest by Philip W. Rundel, Arielle M. Cooley, Katharine L. Gerst, Erin C. Riordan, M. Rasoul Sharifi, Jennifer W. Sun, J. Alexandra Tower

“…We documented ecological, morphological and ecophysiological traits of multiple herb species in six monocot families from each of these two habitats in the wet tropical rainforest at the La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. …”
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Correction: Origin and Alteration of Organic Matter in Termite Mounds from Different Feeding Guilds of the Amazon Rainforests. by PLOS ONE Staff

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Past and Future Responses of Soil Water to Climate Change in Tropical and Subtropical Rainforest Systems in South America by Santiago M. Márquez Arévalo, Rafael Coll Delgado, Douglas da Silva Lindemann, Yuri A. Gelsleichter, Marcos Gervasio Pereira, Rafael de Ávila Rodrigues, Flávio Barbosa Justino, Henderson Silva Wanderley, Everaldo Zonta, Romário Oliveira de Santana, Renato Sinquini de Souza

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Edge effects and vertical stratification of aerial insectivorous bats across the interface of primary-secondary Amazonian rainforest. by Natalie Yoh, James A Clarke, Adrià López-Baucells, Maria Mas, Paulo E D Bobrowiec, Ricardo Rocha, Christoph F J Meyer

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Screening Amazon rainforest plant extracts for antimicrobial activity: a 15-year commitment to the Brazilian biodiversity by Ivana Barbosa Suffredini, Jefferson de Souza Silva, Sergio Alexandre Frana, Katia Cristina Pinto, Keli Cristina Dias Bento, Erika Costa Rudiger, Paloma Kelly de Souza Belo, José Rodrigo de Arruda, Juliana Paola Schulze, Adriana Lígia de Castilho, Livia Roberta Piedade Camargo, Ricardo Olivieri Paulino, Yasmin de Oliveira Santos, Raphael Assis Leandro Morais, Karen Cristina Comin Maldonado, Gabriele Kolndorfer, Karolayne da Silva, Pietra Dantas de Jesus, Gabriella de Oliveira Moura, Victoria Rocha Brandão, Hevelton Araújo Ribeiro, Christian Henrique Komka Vara, Fabiane Massola, Ingrit Elida Collantes Díaz, Mateus Luís Barradas Paciencia, Selene Dall'Acqua Coutinho, Riad Naim Younes, Antonio Drauzio Varella

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Discriminating Scleromystax barbatus (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) populations from Atlantic Rainforest streams employing otolith shape by Roger Henrique Dalcin, Vinícius Abilhoa

“…Abstract This study assessed the lapillus otolith shapes of males and females of Scleromystax barbatus from southern and southeastern regions in the Atlantic Rainforest biome employing Fourier and Wavelet descriptors. …”
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Recent extreme drought events in the Amazon rainforest: assessment of different precipitation and evapotranspiration datasets and drought indicators by P. Papastefanou, C. S. Zang, Z. Angelov, A. A. de Castro, J. C. Jimenez, L. F. C. De Rezende, R. C. Ruscica, R. C. Ruscica, R. C. Ruscica, B. Sakschewski, A. A. Sörensson, A. A. Sörensson, A. A. Sörensson, K. Thonicke, C. Vera, C. Vera, C. Vera, N. Viovy, C. Von Randow, A. Rammig

“…<p>Over the last decades, the Amazon rainforest has been hit by multiple severe drought events. …”
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<title language="eng">Diet of Brachycephalus brunneus (Anura: Brachycephalidae): in the Atlantic Rainforest of Paraná, southern Brazil by Pedro Luiz Fontoura, Luiz Fernando Ribeiro, Marcio Roberto Pie

“…<abstract language="eng">Saddleback toads (Brachycephalidae: Brachycephalus) are a remarkable group of highly endemic species from the southern Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil. They are brightly colored, diurnal, minute frogs that live in the leaf litter of high-elevation cloud forests. …”
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Distribution of Molecular Weight of Humic Substances Isolated from Soils of Tallgrass Temperate Rainforests (Chernevaya Taiga) by Vyacheslav Polyakov, Evgeny Abakumov, Evgeny Lodygin, Roman Vasilevich, Alla Lapidus

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Using a crime prevention framework to evaluate tiger counter-poaching in a Southeast Asian rainforest by Wai Yee Lam, Wai Yee Lam, Chee-Chean Phung, Zainal Abidin Mat, Hamidi Jamaluddin, Charina Pria Sivayogam, Charina Pria Sivayogam, Fauzul Azim Zainal Abidin, Azlan Sulaiman, Melynda Ka Yi Cheok, Noor Alif Wira Osama, Salman Sabaan, Abdul Kadir Abu Hashim, Mark Daniel Booton, Abishek Harihar, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, Rob Stuart Alexander Pickles

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Rainfall – CN (Curve Number) relationships in a tropical rainforest microbasin within the Panamá Canal watershed by José R. Fábrega D., Reinhardt Pinzón, Erick Vallester, David Vega

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Impact of forest fragment size on the population structure of three palm species (Arecaceae) in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest by Rita de Cássia Quitete Portela, Flavio Antonio Maes dos Santos

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Myxomycetes of the Atlantic Rainforest: species on the ground litter from Pedra Talhada Biological Reserve (Alagoas, Brazil) by Jaíne Maria Silva Parentes, Laise de Holanda Cavalcanti

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Assessing Forest Level Response to the Death of a Dominant Tree within a Premontane Tropical Rainforest by Manuel R. Flores III, Luiza Maria Teophilo Aparecido, Gretchen R. Miller, Georgianne W. Moore

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The impacts of political activity on fires and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest: An analysis of social media and satellite data by Vinicius Picanço Rodrigues, Marco Antonio Leonel Caetano

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Differences in leaf and root litter decomposition in tropical montane rainforests are mediated by soil microorganisms not by decomposer microarthropods by Laura M. Sánchez-Galindo, Dorothee Sandmann, Franca Marian, Tobias Lauermann, Mark Maraun, Stefan Scheu

“…Overall, the results support the view that microorganisms mostly drive decomposition processes in tropical montane rainforests with soil microarthropods playing a more important role in decomposing low-quality litter material.…”
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Community phylogeny and spatial scale affect phylogenetic diversity metrics in a species‐rich rainforest in Borneo by Seiya Okuno, Tingting Yin, Satoshi Nanami, Shuhei Matsuyama, Koichi Kamiya, Sylvester Tan, Stuart J. Davies, Mohizah Mohamad, Takuo Yamakura, Akira Itoh

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Effects of land-use change on avian taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in a tropical montane rainforest by Rurangwa, M, Aguirre Gutierrez, J, Matthews, TJ, Whittaker, R

“…<br><strong>Location: </strong>Nyungwe landscape, a montane rainforest with adjoining farmland in south-west Rwanda.…”

Fruits of the forest: human stable isotope ecology and rainforest adaptations in Late Pleistocene and Holocene Sri Lanka by Roberts, P

“…<p>Despite ecological, anthropological, and archaeological debate surrounding their desirability as habitats for human occupation, tropical rainforests have received relatively little attention in discussions of <em>Homo sapiens'</em> Pleistocene dispersal. …”

Complementarity between mist-netting and low-cost acoustic recorders to sample bats in Amazonian rainforests and savannahs by Carvalho, WD, Miguel, JD, da Silva Xavier, B, López-Baucells, A, de Castro, IJ, Hilário, RR, de Toledo, JJ, Rocha, R, Palmeirim, JM