P. Cardoso

Species-associated bacterial diversity increases along a gradient of habitat degradation

The paper examines how bacterial diversity in herbivorous insects changes with habitat degradation and finds that diversity increases while community composition remains stable.

Drivers of species knowledge across the Tree of Life

The paper examines factors influencing biodiversity knowledge distribution, finding socio-cultural traits and species characteristics drive scientific and societal interest.

A big and hairy business: Investigating the interplay of species traits and trade dynamics in the tarantula pet market.

The paper analyzes how species traits and advertisement attributes affect tarantula abundance and price in online pet markets, finding weak direct links between price and rarity.

Modelling the probability of meeting IUCN Red List criteria to support reassessments.

This paper develops models to predict the probability of species meeting specific IUCN Red List criteria, improving extinction risk assessments by identifying key predictors for each criterion.

Functional convergence underground? The scale-dependency of community assembly processes in European cave spiders

The paper examines how environmental filtering and limiting similarity shape cave spider communities, showing their scale-dependent effects on trait evolution and weak geographic influence on trait composition.

An expert-based global assessment of threats and conservation measures for subterranean ecosystems

This study assesses global threats and conservation measures for subterranean ecosystems using expert opinion due to limited data, finding surface habitat change, pollution, and climate change as key threats.

Calculating functional diversity metrics using neighbor-joining trees

The paper introduces using neighbor-joining trees to quantify functional diversity, combining strengths of existing methods while avoiding their weaknesses.

Accuracy of non-parametric species richness estimators across taxa and regions

The paper evaluates non-parametric species richness estimators across diverse taxa and regions, finding Jack1inP to be the most accurate and universally applicable estimator.

Distance decay 2.0 - a global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities.

This paper synthesizes global taxonomic and functional distance decay patterns across 149 datasets, finding taxonomic decay is stronger than functional decay, with mid-latitude datasets showing the fastest taxonomic spatial decay.

The influence of biotic and abiotic drivers on arthropod co-occurrence network topology in native forest remnants in the Azores

This study examines how abiotic factors and exotic species influence arthropod co-occurrence network topology in Azorean forest remnants, revealing network degradation and niche occupation by exotics.

Combined effects of bird extinctions and introductions in oceanic islands: decreased functional diversity despite increased species richness

This study examines how bird extinctions and introductions on oceanic islands affect functional diversity, finding increased species richness but decreased functional richness and evenness.

arakno - An R package for effective spider nomenclature, distribution and trait data retrieval from online resources

The paper introduces an R package called arakno for retrieving and processing spider nomenclature, distribution, and trait data from online databases.

Biological traits and threats interact to drive extinctions in a simulation study

This study uses a simulation model to explore how biological traits interact with different threats to influence extinction risk in virtual organisms.

Insect threats and conservation through the lens of global experts

The paper uses global expert opinions to identify insect threats and conservation strategies, finding agriculture, climate change, and pollution as major threats, with land management and protection as key conservation measures.

Towards a taxonomically unbiased EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030

The paper analyzes EU biodiversity funding allocation from 1992 to 2018, revealing a significant bias towards vertebrates over invertebrates in conservation investments.

Species traits predict extinction risk across the Tree of Life

The paper links species traits to extinction risk across diverse taxa, identifying key traits that predict vulnerability to extinction globally.

Functional diversity metrics using kernel density n-dimensional hypervolumes

The paper develops functions to calculate functional diversity indices using n-dimensional hypervolumes within the R package BAT, enhancing the analysis of ecological communities.

A review of the relation between species traits and extinction risk

This review identifies small range and habitat breadth as key predictors of extinction risk across species, while body size shows inconsistent effects.

Decomposing the causes for niche differentiation between species using hypervolumes

The paper introduces a framework to decompose niche differentiation into niche shifts and contraction/expansion processes, finding significant niche shifts between two Darwin finches.

Optimal inventorying and monitoring of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity

The paper optimizes sampling protocols for inventorying and monitoring taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity across different ecosystems, showing cost-effective methods with minimal bias.

Characterizing and predicting cyanobacterial blooms in an 8-year amplicon sequencing time-course

This study uses 16S amplicon sequencing to analyze cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Champlain over 8 years, finding that blooms can be predicted with high accuracy using sequence data.