BiotropicaPub Date : 2025-09-11DOI: 10.1111/btp.70100
James W. Dalling, Hannah I. Willey
{"title":"Mycorrhizal Barriers to the Upslope Migration of Tropical Trees","authors":"James W. Dalling, Hannah I. Willey","doi":"10.1111/btp.70100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70100","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mycorrhizae can impact soil nutrient cycling, with reduced nitrogen availability and increased litter depth beneath ectomycorrhizal Fagales. The presence of Fagales-dominated montane forests in parts of Asia and Central America could impose a significant barrier to the upslope migration of lowland arbuscular mycorrhizal tree species migrating under climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/btp.70100","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145037716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiotropicaPub Date : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1111/btp.70069
Tuyeni Mwampamba, Jennifer S. Powers, Lúcia G. Lohmann
{"title":"2025 ATBC Honorary Fellows","authors":"Tuyeni Mwampamba, Jennifer S. Powers, Lúcia G. Lohmann","doi":"10.1111/btp.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70069","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 1963, the Council of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation established the election of Honorary Fellows as “persons of long distinguished service to tropical biology.” This is the highest award given by the Association. To date, we have selected more than 100 Honorary Fellows from over 20 countries. This year, we celebrate two more outstanding Honorary Fellows who are both widely recognized for their scholarship and mentorship. On behalf of The Honorary Fellow Nomination Committee, we present the 2025 Honorary Fellows, Dr. Patricia Balvanera and Dr. Geraldo Fernandes Wilson.</p><p>Patricia Balvanera (Figure 1) is a distinguished Mexican ecologist and full professor at the Institute for Research on Ecosystems and Sustainability (IIES-UNAM). Her work bridges biodiversity science, ecosystem services, and sustainability, with a strong emphasis on social-ecological systems. She has led pioneering research on how biodiversity underpins human well-being through ecological, cultural, and relational pathways. Dr. Balvanera is internationally recognized for her contributions to global assessments, including the IPBES Values Assessment, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Ecology & Society. Her scientific output includes over 160 peer-reviewed articles, with more than 17,000 citations.</p><p>She actively leads and participates in transdisciplinary initiatives such as Cocina Colaboratorio, co-creating sustainable food systems with rural communities, artists, and scholars. At regional and national levels, she has advanced the integration of ecological and social data to inform policies on conservation and equity. Globally, she contributes to scientific networks like PECS and GEOBON, promoting biodiversity monitoring and knowledge co-production. Through her academic leadership, community engagement, and editorial roles, Dr. Balvanera plays a key role in shaping the future of sustainability science.</p><p>Dr. Geraldo Wilson Afonso Fernandes (Figure 2) is a leading Brazilian ecologist and full professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), with a foundational background in Biology (B.Sc., 1983) and advanced degrees in Ecology (M.Sc., 1987; Ph.D., 1992) from Northern Arizona University. His work, spanning over four decades, centers on insect–plant interactions, gall-forming insects, herbivory, climate change, biodiversity, and restoration ecology. Fernandes has authored hundreds of peer-reviewed articles, guided scores of graduate students, and held prestigious visiting positions at institutions like Stanford University (as Tinker Professor), University of Alberta, and Universidad de Sevilla. He is also a full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and a CNPq Researcher 1A.</p><p>Committed to long-term ecological research in Brazilian biomes such as campo rupestre, Cerrado, and Caatinga, Dr. Fernandes investigates ecological patterns across altitudinal and environmental gradients. His studies integrate theoretical and appl","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/btp.70069","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145022235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Species-Specific Water-Use Characteristics of Trees in Old-Growth and Secondary Tropical Forests of Thailand","authors":"Ratchanon Ampornpitak, Weerapong Unawong, Hyungwoo Lim, Pantana Tor-ngern","doi":"10.1111/btp.70101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70101","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Tree water use is a critical component of the forest water cycle and is influenced by global climate changes, such as shifts in precipitation patterns. These changes may disproportionately affect forest runoff depending on how sensitive tree water use is to environmental conditions. Therefore, understanding the water-use strategies of different tree species is essential for predicting how forests will respond to environmental change. This study investigated how daily sap flux density (J<sub>s</sub>), which represents water flow per unit of sapwood area, varies with environmental factors in common tree species in successional tropical forests in Thailand. Using thermal dissipation probes, we measured J<sub>s</sub> in both an old-growth forest (OF) and a young forest (YF). Results indicated that trees in the OF were highly sensitive to rising vapor pressure deficit (VPD) under low soil moisture, indicating a response to atmospheric demand, while trees in the YF could maintain their water use rate regardless of changes in VPD. In addition, species-specific patterns were observed across varying soil moisture conditions at both sites. In OF, <i>Syzygium syzygoides</i> and <i>Cinnamomum subavenium</i> exhibited conservative water use under low soil moisture, which might protect them from negative effects of droughts. In YF, <i>Adinandra integerrima</i> saturated its J<sub>s</sub> earlier than other species under low soil moisture, likely to save water, indicating greater drought tolerance compared to others at this site. These findings provide valuable insights into species-specific water-use patterns across different successional stages, helping to predict how tropical forests may respond to environmental changes.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145022234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiotropicaPub Date : 2025-09-09DOI: 10.1111/btp.70087
Sally Soo Kaicheen, Jedediah F. Brodie, Jayasilan Mohd-Azlan
{"title":"Mammal Species Composition and Activity Patterns Shift While Richness Remains Constant Across Elevational Gradients in Western Sarawak, Borneo","authors":"Sally Soo Kaicheen, Jedediah F. Brodie, Jayasilan Mohd-Azlan","doi":"10.1111/btp.70087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70087","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Perubahan pada komposisi dan kepelbagaian spesies dalam konteks kecerunan altitud masih kurang difahami bagi banyak takson tropika. Kajian ini, bertujuan untuk memahami taburan mamalia bersaiz sederhana hingga besar di sepanjang kecerunan altitud di kawasan barat laut Pulau Borneo. Perangkap kamera yang dipasang di 209 stesen dengan menggunakan kaedah pensampelan berstrata merentasi tujuh kategori altitud di enam kawasan terlindung dari tahun 2014 hingga 2017 telah merekodkan 33 spesies mamalia. Bilangan spesies tidak berkait secara signifikan dengan altitud, tetapi komposisinya berubah dengan kesan altitud mengikut takson. Tiada spesies yang direkod di kawasan tanah rendah sahaja, namun kehadiran musang pandan (<i>Paradoxurus hermaphroditus</i>), dua spesies landak (<i>Hystrix crassispinis</i> dan <i>fasciculata</i>) adalah tinggi di altitud rendah. Sebaliknya, kehadiran musang lamri (<i>Paguma larvata</i>), beruk (<i>Macaca nemestrina</i>) dan pulasan tanah (<i>Mustela nudipes</i>) meningkat dengan altitud, manakala musang Hose (<i>Diplogale hosei</i>) dan harimau dahan Sunda (<i>Neofelis diardi</i>) hanya dikesan di kawasan tanah tinggi (> 700 m). Perbezaan aktiviti bagi sesetengah spesies antara hutan altitud rendah dan tinggi adalah kecil. Secara amnya kebanyakan spesies yang di kesan mempunyai julat altitud yang luas. Walau bagaimanapun, perlindungan hutan di sepanjang kecerunan altitud tersebut adalah penting dalam menghadapi perubahan iklim, dimana kesinambungan habitat tersebut adalah perlu sekiranya spesies terpaksa berhijrah dari tanah rendah ke altitud yang lebih tinggi.</p>","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/btp.70087","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145012990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiotropicaPub Date : 2025-09-08DOI: 10.1111/btp.70093
Arthur M. Yambayamba, Fabian J. Fischer, Tommaso Jucker
{"title":"Competition, Precipitation, and Temperature Shape Deviations From Scaling Laws in the Crown Allometries of Miombo Woodlands","authors":"Arthur M. Yambayamba, Fabian J. Fischer, Tommaso Jucker","doi":"10.1111/btp.70093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70093","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scaling relationships between different axes of tree size, such as height, crown radius, crown depth, and stem diameter, play a direct role in shaping forest structure and function. Theoretical models such as metabolic scaling theory postulate that they are optimized for biomechanical stability and hydraulic sap distribution. However, empirical data often show that such models are only good enough as first-order approximations because they do not account for differences in species traits and environmental conditions where trees grow. Nevertheless, the vast majority of research has focused on temperate ecosystems or tropical rainforests, so we continue to lack a full understanding of what factors shape allometries of trees in tropical dry forests. Here, we compile data on tree height, diameter, crown radius, and depth from miombo woodlands across Zambia and use a Bayesian hierarchical modeling framework to explore how allometric scaling relationships are shaped by climate and competition. Similar to previous studies, our results revealed that allometric scaling relationships deviate substantially from theoretical expectations. We found that competition, precipitation, and temperature all affect crown allometric scaling relationships, with trees becoming more slender where neighborhood competition was greater, while crowns were wider and deeper in warmer and wetter climates. Our study highlights how the structure and function of miombo woodlands is shaped by more than just water availability. Moreover, by developing improved crown allometric models for miombo woodlands, we provide new tools to aid the estimation of aboveground biomass and calibration of remote sensing products in these critically important dry forest ecosystems.</p>","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/btp.70093","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145012394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiotropicaPub Date : 2025-09-06DOI: 10.1111/btp.70092
Selene Báez, Xavier Haro-Carrión, Eva Tamargo-López, Marijn Bauters, Michael P. Perring, Susana León-Yánez, Ximena Palomeque, Hans Verbeeck
{"title":"Greater Landscape-Scale Forest Cover and Animal-Mediated Seed Dispersal Syndromes Associate With Faster Recovery Rates in Restoring Tropical Andean Forests","authors":"Selene Báez, Xavier Haro-Carrión, Eva Tamargo-López, Marijn Bauters, Michael P. Perring, Susana León-Yánez, Ximena Palomeque, Hans Verbeeck","doi":"10.1111/btp.70092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70092","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Evaluating the effect of environmental variation and landscape attributes on the success of active forest restoration is critical to guiding restoration policies and practices. We used a large-scale forest restoration effort to investigate how environmental factors and landscape attributes affected forest recovery along a ~1000 m elevation gradient on the Pacific slopes of Andean tropical montane forests in Ecuador. In 92 plots across five restoration sites, we determined relationships among forest recovery parameters (i.e., species richness, stem density and aboveground biomass accrual) and environmental (i.e., elevation and precipitation) and landscape attributes (i.e., landscape-scale mature forest cover and distance to mature forest). To explore possible mechanisms underlying recovery, we considered the dispersal syndromes (zoochory vs. non-zoochory) of recruited trees and saplings. Forest recovery rates depended mainly on the interaction between site-level forest cover and distance to forest patches. A greater distance to forest patches increased recovery rates at greater landscape-scale mature forest cover but was predicted to decrease rates under low landscape-scale mature forest cover. As stem density and species richness recovery rates for recruited trees and saplings increased, a greater proportion of the surveyed plant stems and/or species associated with zoochory compared to other dispersal types. This clear result suggests that animals in the wider landscape could mediate forest recovery rates. Our findings highlight the value of natural forest remnants as an aid to accelerate montane forest recovery during active forest restoration.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144998762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiotropicaPub Date : 2025-09-06DOI: 10.1111/btp.70095
Florence Wen, Christopher M. Murray, Brandon P. Hedrick
{"title":"High Field Pivotal Temperature of Olive Ridley Sea Turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea)","authors":"Florence Wen, Christopher M. Murray, Brandon P. Hedrick","doi":"10.1111/btp.70095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70095","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>All species of sea turtles exhibit temperature dependent sex determination (TSD), where egg incubation temperature during the middle third of incubation determines the sex of offspring. Many hatchling sex ratio studies are performed in laboratory settings where eggs are incubated under constant temperatures. While these studies have helped to establish important information about how incubation temperature affects embryonic development, incubation duration, hatchling performance, and sex ratios, in situ nests experience stochastic conditions, such as daily temperature fluctuations. To better understand the effects of temperature on a TSD species, we evaluate incubation duration, hatchling size, and hatching success as well as determine pivotal temperature and hatchling sex ratios of olive ridley sea turtles (<i>Lepidochelys olivacea</i>) in field conditions where natural stochastic weather fluctuations take place. Eggs were collected and relocated to a hatchery with five different treatment groups aiming to create a thermal gradient for assessing TSD. After hatchlings emerged, nest temperatures and associated sex ratios were determined for each nest. Our study found that the field pivotal temperature for <i>L. olivacea</i> at Ostional, Costa Rica is 31.5°C with a transitional range of temperatures from 30.6°C to 32.5°C. This is the highest pivotal temperature recorded for any species of sea turtle. Establishing a field pivotal temperature is critical for accurate estimations of hatchling sex ratios at nesting beaches along the Eastern Pacific coast. This work adds additional field data on hatchling demography, building on previous field experiments as well as laboratory experiments that are unable to account for field heterogeneity.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144998761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiotropicaPub Date : 2025-09-03DOI: 10.1111/btp.70094
Esthela Rodríguez-García, Jennifer S. Powers
{"title":"Leaf Size and Shape Interact to Control Flammability: An Experiment With Artificial Leaves Cut From the Large-Leaved Species Sapranthus palanga","authors":"Esthela Rodríguez-García, Jennifer S. Powers","doi":"10.1111/btp.70094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70094","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We evaluated the flammability of leaves based on their shape and size using a single species. Rectangular and triangular shapes showed high flammability that did not vary with size, while circular shapes had minimal flammability, but this varied with size. These findings indicate that leaf shape and size impact flammability.</p>","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/btp.70094","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144929910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiotropicaPub Date : 2025-08-30DOI: 10.1111/btp.70085
Karin Elisabeth von Schmalz, Victor P. Dias da Silva, Antonio Christian de Andrade
{"title":"Where Art Thou? Urbanization Decreases Attacks on Sentinel Prey by Arthropods, but Not Birds, in a Tropical City","authors":"Karin Elisabeth von Schmalz, Victor P. Dias da Silva, Antonio Christian de Andrade","doi":"10.1111/btp.70085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70085","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Land use and cover in urban and rural landscapes change biotic communities, impacting ecosystem services provided by pest predators, which can lead to the overabundance of herbivorous insects and, consequently, increased herbivory, especially in highly urbanized areas. To investigate this, we placed 2555 artificial sentinel prey in 73 sampling units in the Greater João Pessoa region, Northeast Brazil, covering different types of urban and rural landscapes to verify how differences in land use and cover in a tropical city may affect predation on herbivorous caterpillars. Urban landscapes were located within the urbanized perimeter of the city. Rural landscapes included areas with monocultures, small livestock farmers, and smallholder farmers, and were noncontiguous. Arthropods emerged as the primary group controlling herbivorous insect populations, but built-up land cover and fragmented habitats strongly affected this ecosystem service. Birds were the second most common taxon providing pest control and were not affected by differences in land use and cover. Although rural areas were far apart and differed in land cover, predation rates were similar between each other. Contrary to our prediction, temporary plantations did not impact predation rates, probably due to the presence of small forest fragments. Birds might play a key role in controlling herbivorous insects in tropical cities since they can forage over considerable distances and endure highly built-up landscapes. While there is no one-size-fits-all solution to improve habitats for pest control providers, urban planners should aim to increase the number of trees in streets and plazas to encourage the presence of predators.</p>","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/btp.70085","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144918822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiotropicaPub Date : 2025-08-26DOI: 10.1111/btp.70079
Marcos Penhacek, Rodrigo Antônio Castro-Souza, Geiziane Tessarolo, José Alexandre Diniz-Filho, Thadeu Sobral-Souza, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues
{"title":"Biases in Amphibian Sampling in the Amazon: Using Infrastructure and Accessibility Data to Identify Sampling Gaps","authors":"Marcos Penhacek, Rodrigo Antônio Castro-Souza, Geiziane Tessarolo, José Alexandre Diniz-Filho, Thadeu Sobral-Souza, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues","doi":"10.1111/btp.70079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70079","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Biogeographic knowledge of Amazonian amphibians is limited by spatial and temporal coverage, resulting in biases that affect the understanding of their diversity patterns. This study analyzed a database of 951 species based on 213,072 georeferenced occurrence records distributed across 24,319 locations in the Amazon. The objective was to identify sampling biases related to infrastructure and accessibility predictors. The overall results indicate that rivers are the primary drivers of amphibian sampling, while roads had a limited influence, reflecting the historical reliance of the region on river transport. Regarding infrastructure, both cities and hydroelectric plants had a moderate effect on sampling, whereas transmission lines had a negligible effect. However, with the expansion of hydroelectric projects from the mid-1970s onwards, intensifying after 2008 with the Brazilian government's Growth Acceleration Plan (PAC), the high volume of records obtained from these ventures distorted the sampling pattern, overestimating rivers and hydroelectric plants while underestimating highways as a source of sampling bias. We conclude, therefore, that amphibian sampling in the Amazon exhibits significant geographic and temporal bias due to unevenly distributed research efforts, which are largely constrained by logistical challenges and inadequate infrastructure. To overcome these challenges, it is necessary to promote collaboration between researchers and decision-makers, invest in research infrastructure, and improve data dissemination. Additionally, we emphasize the importance of conducting a rigorous preliminary evaluation of datasets, particularly when a substantial volume of data are rapidly generated by infrastructure projects such as hydroelectric power plants, to prevent analytical biases and ensure accurate results. These measures aim to strengthen amphibian research and support biodiversity conservation, particularly in response to increasing deforestation and climate change in the Amazon.</p>","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/btp.70079","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144897500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}