Manuel J. Macía
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View article: Species functional traits affect regional and local dominance across western Amazonian forests
Species functional traits affect regional and local dominance across western Amazonian forests Open
Several studies have documented dominance by few species in Amazonian forests. Dominant species tend to be either locally abundant (local dominants) or regionally frequent (widespread dominants) but rarely both (oligarchs). Here, we explor…
View article: Plant functional traits shape the provision of ecosystem services to Indigenous communities in western Amazonia
Plant functional traits shape the provision of ecosystem services to Indigenous communities in western Amazonia Open
Context . Exploring how Indigenous People interact with plants through their functional traits allows us to understand the ecological bases of plant selection. Functional traits can help explain why certain plants are consistently chosen f…
View article: Analogous Environments Across the Tropics Have Similar Levels of Tree Species Αlpha Diversity
Analogous Environments Across the Tropics Have Similar Levels of Tree Species Αlpha Diversity Open
Different regions of the tropics vary in overall tree species diversity, with the tropical Americas exhibiting strikingly higher regional tree species richness than Africa and Southeast Asia. We investigated whether these differences also …
View article: Frailty Prevalence and Characterization Among Kidney Transplant Candidates in Spain: A Multicenter Study
Frailty Prevalence and Characterization Among Kidney Transplant Candidates in Spain: A Multicenter Study Open
Frailty is a frequent condition among kidney transplant candidates (KTc) that confers poor outcomes after transplantation. We aimed to establish frailty prevalence in a representative sample of KTc in Spain. We conducted a multicenter cros…
View article: From smartphones to satellites: Uniting crowdsourced biodiversity monitoring and Earth observation to fill the gaps in global plant trait mapping
From smartphones to satellites: Uniting crowdsourced biodiversity monitoring and Earth observation to fill the gaps in global plant trait mapping Open
Plant functional traits are fundamental to ecosystem dynamics and Earth system processes, but their global characterization is limited by the availability of field surveys and trait measurements. Recent expansions in biodiversity data aggr…
View article: Immunotherapy for Cancer in Kidney Transplant Patients: A Difficult Balance Between Risks and Benefits
Immunotherapy for Cancer in Kidney Transplant Patients: A Difficult Balance Between Risks and Benefits Open
Cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in kidney transplant patients. Unfortunately, the use of new anti-cancer therapies such as immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICPIs) in this population has been associated with rejection rates …
View article: Hot node limitations and impact of taxonomic resolution on phylogenetic divergence patterns: A case study on Ecuadorian ethnomedicinal flora
Hot node limitations and impact of taxonomic resolution on phylogenetic divergence patterns: A case study on Ecuadorian ethnomedicinal flora Open
Summary Societal Impact Statement Novel phylogenetic approaches have emerged in recent years to study traditional medicinal plants, aiming to identify potential sources of new drugs. This line of research holds considerable promise yet rem…
View article: Understanding different dominance patterns in western Amazonian forests
Understanding different dominance patterns in western Amazonian forests Open
Dominance of neotropical tree communities by a few species is widely documented, but dominant trees show a variety of distributional patterns still poorly understood. Here, we used 503 forest inventory plots (93,719 individuals ≥2.5 cm dia…
View article: Woody plant taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity decrease along elevational gradients in Andean tropical montane forests: environmental filtering and arrival of temperate taxa
Woody plant taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity decrease along elevational gradients in Andean tropical montane forests: environmental filtering and arrival of temperate taxa Open
Aim Mountains are paramount for exploring biodiversity patterns and their causes due to the rich mosaic of topographies and climates encompassed over short geographical distances. Biodiversity changes along elevational gradients have tradi…
View article: Plant functional traits shape cultural and provisioning services to Indigenous communities in western Amazonia
Plant functional traits shape cultural and provisioning services to Indigenous communities in western Amazonia Open
Functional traits have gained scientific support as a tool for understanding forests ecosystems and the goods and services they provide to human populations. Investigating how humans use and interact with plants based on their functional t…
View article: Plant functional traits shape cultural and provisioning services to Indigenous communities in western Amazonia
Plant functional traits shape cultural and provisioning services to Indigenous communities in western Amazonia Open
Functional traits have gained scientific support as a tool for understanding forests ecosystems and the goods and services they provide to human populations. Investigating how humans use and interact with plants based on their functional t…
View article: Elevational Range Sizes of Woody plants Increase with Climate Variability in the Tropical Andes
Elevational Range Sizes of Woody plants Increase with Climate Variability in the Tropical Andes Open
Aim The climate variability hypothesis proposes that species subjected to wide variation in climatic conditions will evolve wider niches, resulting in larger distributions. We test this hypothesis in tropical plants across a broad elevatio…
View article: Floristic diversity, composition and dominance across Amazonian forest types respond differently to latitude
Floristic diversity, composition and dominance across Amazonian forest types respond differently to latitude Open
Aim The latitudinal biodiversity gradient is considered a first‐order biogeographical pattern for most taxonomic groups. Latitudinal variation in plant diversity is not always consistent, and this could be related to the particular charact…
View article: Understanding the Influence of Socioeconomic Variables on Medicinal Plant Knowledge in the Peruvian Andes
Understanding the Influence of Socioeconomic Variables on Medicinal Plant Knowledge in the Peruvian Andes Open
In this study, we analyze the impact of 18 socioeconomic factors at individual, family, and locality levels to understand their influence on medicinal plant knowledge (MPK) in four provinces and 12 localities of the northern Andes of Peru.…
View article: Latitudinal patterns and environmental drivers of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of woody plants in western Amazonian terra firme forests
Latitudinal patterns and environmental drivers of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of woody plants in western Amazonian terra firme forests Open
Elucidating how environmental factors drive plant species distributions and how they affect latitudinal diversity gradients, remain essential questions in ecology and biogeography. In this study we aimed: 1) to investigate the relationship…
View article: Insights on biodiversity drivers to predict species richness in tropical forests at the local scale
Insights on biodiversity drivers to predict species richness in tropical forests at the local scale Open
Disentangling the relative importance of different biodiversity drivers (i.e., climate, edaphic, historical factors, or human impact) to predict plant species richness at the local scale is one of the most important challenges in ecology. …
View article: Soil and Climate Drive Floristic Composition in Tropical Forests: A Literature Review
Soil and Climate Drive Floristic Composition in Tropical Forests: A Literature Review Open
A vast literature indicates that environment plays a paramount role in determining floristic composition in tropical forests. However, it remains unclear which are the most important environmental factors and their relative effect across d…
View article: Data from: FunAndes – A functional trait database of Andean plants
Data from: FunAndes – A functional trait database of Andean plants Open
We introduce the FunAndes database, a compilation of functional trait data for the Andean flora spanning six countries. FunAndes contains data on 24 traits across 2,694 taxa, for a total of 105,466 entries. The database features plant-morp…
View article: The evolutionary assembly of forest communities along environmental gradients: recent diversification or sorting of pre‐adapted clades?
The evolutionary assembly of forest communities along environmental gradients: recent diversification or sorting of pre‐adapted clades? Open
Summary Recent studies have demonstrated that ecological processes that shape community structure and dynamics change along environmental gradients. However, much less is known about how the emergence of the gradients themselves shape the …
View article: Medicinal Plants for Rich People vs. Medicinal Plants for Poor People: A Case Study from the Peruvian Andes
Medicinal Plants for Rich People vs. Medicinal Plants for Poor People: A Case Study from the Peruvian Andes Open
Traditional knowledge (TK) of medicinal plants in cities has been poorly studied across different inhabitants’ socioeconomic sectors. We studied the small city of Chachapoyas (~34,000 inhabitants) in the northern Peruvian Andes. We divided…
View article: Madidi Project Full Dataset
Madidi Project Full Dataset Open
This item contains version 5.0 of the Madidi Project's full dataset. The zip file contains (1) raw data, which was downloaded from Tropicos (www.tropicos.org) on August 18, 2020; (2) R scripts used to modify, correct, and clean the raw dat…
View article: Madidi Project Full Dataset
Madidi Project Full Dataset Open
This item contains version 5.0 of the Madidi Project's full dataset. The zip file contains (1) raw data, which was downloaded from Tropicos (www.tropicos.org) on August 18, 2020; (2) R scripts used to modify, correct, and clean the raw dat…
View article: Amazon tree dominance across forest strata
Amazon tree dominance across forest strata Open
The forests of Amazonia are among the most biodiverse plant communities on Earth. Given the immediate threats posed by climate and land-use change, an improved understanding of how this extraordinary biodiversity is spatially organized is …
View article: Mechanisms of community assembly explaining beta‐diversity patterns across biogeographic regions
Mechanisms of community assembly explaining beta‐diversity patterns across biogeographic regions Open
Aim We examined tree beta diversity in four biogeographical regions with contrasting environmental conditions, latitude, and diversity. We tested: (a) the influence of the species pool on beta diversity; (b) the relative contribution of ni…
View article: Data from the Cantabrian Mountains used in 'Mechanisms of community assembly explaining beta-diversity patterns across biogeographic regions'
Data from the Cantabrian Mountains used in 'Mechanisms of community assembly explaining beta-diversity patterns across biogeographic regions' Open
Data from the Cantabrian Mountains used in 'Mechanisms of community assembly explaining beta-diversity patterns across biogeographic regions'. The data refer to location, floristic composition and environmental variables of several 0.1-ha …
View article: Data from the Cantabrian Mountains used in 'Mechanisms of community assembly explaining beta-diversity patterns across biogeographic regions'
Data from the Cantabrian Mountains used in 'Mechanisms of community assembly explaining beta-diversity patterns across biogeographic regions' Open
Data from the Cantabrian Mountains used in 'Mechanisms of community assembly explaining beta-diversity patterns across biogeographic regions'. The data refer to location, floristic composition and environmental variables of several 0.1-ha …