The 'few winners and many losers' paradigm revisited: Emerging prospects for tropical forest biodiversity

By M. Tabarelli, C. A. Peres, Felipe P. L. Melo. 2012

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

The Multiple Impacts of Leaf‐Cutting Ants and Their Novel Ecological Role in Human‐Modified Neotropical Forests (2014, background): “The ubiquitous spread of fast-growing plant species (Tabarelli et al. 2012a), which tend to be poorly defended against herbivores (Coley et al. 1985), might play a crucial role as causal mechanism here—the spread of these species is promoted by disturbance-driven resource release in the wake of…”
High mammal species turnover in forest patches immersed in biofuel plantations (2017, background): “As such, highly resilient species gradually dominate ecological communities at the expense of native species that do not tolerate high levels of human disturbances (Tabarelli et al., 2012).”
Chronic anthropogenic disturbance causes homogenization of plant and ant communities in the Brazilian Caatinga (2016, result): “This winner/ loser replacement (sensu Tabarelli et al. 2012) or successional process (Kumar and Ram 2005) is in accordance with the changes in species abundance we have documented in our study sites.”
Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change (2019, neutral): “By contrast, ecological generalists and disturbance-adapted species have tended to becomemore abundant, and some have spread quickly around the world (43).”
Biodiversity consequences of land-use change and forest disturbance in the Amazon:a multi-scale assessment using ant communities (2016, background): “However, as in studies on other taxa, we recognize that the high species richness of disturbed forests might be inflated by ‘spillover’ from undisturbed forest (Gardner et al. 2009, Tabarelli et al. 2012), and that our standardised sampling could underestimate the richness of undisturbed forests.”