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  1. Human-induced habitat modification affects the structure of insect communities and the topology of plant-herbivore networks in Brazilian Neotropical savannas

    Article • Global Ecology and Conservation, November 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  2. Leaf traits mediate galling insect frequency on woody plants in a Neotropical savanna

    Article • Flora, October 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  3. A call for flexpert ecologists

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, September 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  4. Urbanization influences the structure of plant–insect pollination networks through changes in pollinator species richness

    Article • Arthropod-Plant Interactions, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  5. Mites on Caatinga remnants vegetation in Northeast Brazil, with description of a new species of Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata)

    Article • Systematic and Applied Acarology, February 2025, Systematic and Applied Acarology Society

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  6. Global effects of land-use intensity and exotic plants on the structure and phylogenetic signal of plant-herbivore networks

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, September 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  7. Shorter and less curved bills are negatively associated with dietary niche overlap in hummingbird communities

    Article • Ornithology Research, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  8. The aesthetic value of Brazilian reefs: from species to seascape

    Article • Ocean & Coastal Management, November 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Pablo Quimbayo, Dr Mário Almeida-Neto, Vinicius J Giglio

  9. From insect-plant interactions to ecological networks

    Article • Biota Neotropica, January 2022, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  10. Ecological and evolutionary distances from neighbouring plants do not influence leaf herbivory by chewing insects in a Neotropical savanna

    Article • Plant Ecology & Diversity, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  11. Grinnelian and Eltonian niche conservatism of the European honeybee (Apis mellifera) in its exotic distribution

    Article • Sociobiology, June 2020, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  12. Host age predicts parasite occurrence, richness, and nested infracommunities in a pilot whale-helminth network

    Article • Parasitology Research, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  13. Ectoparasites are more vulnerable to host extinction than co-occurring endoparasites: evidence from metazoan parasites of freshwater and marine fishes

    Article • Hydrobiologia, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  14. The effect of species composition dissimilarity on plant–herbivore network structure is not consistent over time

    Article • Biotropica, April 2020, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  15. A novel coextinction model considering compensation and new interactions in ecological networks

    Article • Ecological Modelling, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  16. Pollinator restoration in Brazilian ecosystems relies on a small but phylogenetically-diverse set of plant families

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  17. Trophic level and host specialisation affect beta‐diversity in plant–herbivore–parasitoid assemblages

    Article • Insect Conservation and Diversity, April 2019, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  18. Changing interactions among persistent species as the major driver of seasonal turnover in plant-caterpillar interactions

    Article • PLOS One, September 2018, PLOS

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  19. Insect elevational specialization in a tropical biodiversity hotspot

    Article • Insect Conservation and Diversity, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  20. Manifold influences of phylogenetic structure on a plant–herbivore network

    Article • Oikos, October 2016, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  21. Seasonal variation in diet breadth of folivorous Lepidoptera in the Brazilian cerrado

    Article • Biotropica, March 2016, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  22. Host-Plant Specialization Mediates the Influence of Plant Abundance on Host Use by Flower Head-Feeding Insects

    Article • Environmental Entomology, December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  23. The Effect of Host-Plant Phylogenetic Isolation on Species Richness, Composition and Specialization of Insect Herbivores: A Comparison between Native and Exotic Hosts

    Article • PLOS One, September 2015, PLOS

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  24. The patterns of organisation and structure of interactions in a fish-parasite network of a neotropical river

    Article • International Journal for Parasitology, July 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  25. The Colonisation of Exotic Species Does Not Have to Trigger Faunal Homogenisation: Lessons from the Assembly Patterns of Arthropods on Oceanic Islands

    Article • PLOS One, May 2015, PLOS

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  26. Female Preference and Offspring Performance in the Seed Beetle Gibbobruchus bergamini Manfio & Ribeiro-Costa (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): A Multi-Scale Comparison

    Article • Neotropical Entomology, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  27. Ectoparasites and endoparasites of fish form networks with different structures

    Article • Parasitology, March 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  28. Contrasting Effects of Land Use Intensity and Exotic Host Plants on the Specialization of Interactions in Plant-Herbivore Networks

    Article • PLOS One, January 2015, PLOS

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  29. Disentangling the influence of plants and herbivores on the local diversity of parasitoids in the Brazilian Cerrado

    Article • Insect Conservation and Diversity, January 2015, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  30. A simple stochastic model for complex coextinctions in mutualistic networks: robustness decreases with connectance

    Article • Ecology Letters, November 2014, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  31. Amphibian Beta Diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Contrasting the Roles of Historical Events and Contemporary Conditions at Different Spatial Scales

    Article • PLOS One, October 2014, PLOS

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto, Dr Fernando Rodrigues da Silva

  32. Global effects of land use intensity on the impoverishment of insect herbivore assemblages

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  33. Proportion of exotics and relatedness of host species mediate the positive effect of plant richness on the species richness of fruit flies

    Article • Ecological Entomology, September 2014, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  34. An integrated framework to improve the concept of resource specialisation

    Article • Ecology Letters, August 2014, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  35. Parasitoid Wasps in Flower Heads of Asteraceae in the Brazilian Cerrado: Taxonomical Composition and Determinants of Diversity

    Article • Neotropical Entomology, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  36. treeNODF: nestedness to phylogenetic, functional and other tree‐based diversity metrics

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, April 2014, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  37. Plant-Pollinator Coextinctions and the Loss of Plant Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity

    Article • PLOS One, November 2013, PLOS

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  38. Developmental Stage of Parasites Influences the Structure of Fish-Parasite Networks

    Article • PLOS One, October 2013, PLOS

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  39. On the meanings of nestedness: back to the basics

    Article • Ecography, July 2012, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  40. Humidity levels drive reproductive modes and phylogenetic diversity of amphibians in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, June 2012, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto, Dr Fernando Rodrigues da Silva

  41. Rethinking the relationship between nestedness and beta diversity: a comment on Baselga (2010)

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, August 2011, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  42. Insects on urban plants: contrasting the flower head feeding assemblages on native and exotic hosts

    Article • Urban Ecosystems, May 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  43. A straightforward computational approach for measuring nestedness using quantitative matrices

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, February 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  44. Host Plant Specialization and Species Turnover of Caterpillars Among Hosts in the Brazilian Cerrado

    Article • Biotropica, January 2011, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  45. Bromeliad architectural complexity and vertical distribution predict spider abundance and richness

    Article • Austral Ecology, September 2010, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  46. Phytophagous insect fauna tracks host plant responses to exotic grass invasion

    Article • Oecologia, September 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  47. Invasive grasses and native Asteraceae in the Brazilian Cerrado

    Article • Plant Ecology, February 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  48. Integrating Economic Costs and Biological Traits into Global Conservation Priorities for Carnivores

    Article • PLOS One, August 2009, PLOS

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  49. Determinants of fruit removal in Geonoma pauciflora, an understory palm of neotropical forests

    Article • Ecological Research, March 2009, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  50. A consumer's guide to nestedness analysis

    Article • Oikos, January 2009, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  51. Vertebrate dispersal syndromes along the Atlantic forest: broad-scale patterns and macroecological correlates

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, July 2008, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  52. A consistent metric for nestedness analysis in ecological systems: reconciling concept and measurement

    Article • Oikos, May 2008, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  53. New host-plant records for neotropical agromyzids (Diptera: Agromyzidae) from Asteraceae flower heads

    Article • Neotropical Entomology, February 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  54. On nestedness analyses: rethinking matrix temperature and anti-nestedness

    Article • Oikos, April 2007, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  55. On nestedness analyses: rethinking matrix temperature and anti-nestedness

    Article • Oikos, April 2007, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  56. Assemblages of endophagous insects on Asteraceae in São Paulo Cerrados

    Article • Neotropical Entomology, August 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  57. Harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones) species distribution along three Neotropical elevational gradients: an alternative rescue effect to explain Rapoport's rule?

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, February 2006, Wiley

    Dr Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha, Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  58. Flower-heads, herbivores, and their parasitoids: food web structure along a fertility gradient

    Article • Ecological Entomology, February 2005, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  59. Diversidade e ocorrência de Asteraceae em cerrados de São Paulo

    Article • Biota Neotropica, January 2005, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  60. Small-scale spatial autocorrelation and the interpretation of relationships between phenological parameters

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, February 2004, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto

  61. Small-scale spatial autocorrelation and the interpretation of relationships between phenological parameters

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, January 2004, Wiley

    Dr Mário Almeida-Neto