Publications | Evolutionary Macroecology Lab

A. Arango, F. Villalobos, D.A. Prieto-Torres, R. Guevara (2021). The phylogenetic diversity and structure of the seasonally dry forests in the Neotropics. Journal of Biogeography, (48), 1, pp. 176-186, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13991.

J.M. Bennett, J. Sunday, P. Calosi, F. Villalobos, B. Martinez, R. Molina-Venegas, M.B. Araujo, A.C. Algar, S. Clusella-Trullas, B.A. Hawkins, S.A. Keith, I. Kuhn, C. Rahbek, L. Rodriguez, A. Singer, I. Morales-Castilla, M.a. Olalla-Tarraga (2021). The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth. Nature Communications, (12), 1, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21263-8.

C. Galan-Acedo, D. Spaan, J.C. Bicca-Marques, R.B. {de Azevedo}, F. Villalobos, F. Rosete-Verges (2021). Regional deforestation drives the impact of forest cover and matrix quality on primate species richness. Biological Conservation, (263), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109338.

G.R. Perez-Toledo, J.E. Valenzuela-Gonzalez, C.E. Moreno, F. Villalobos, R.R. Silva (2021). Patterns and drivers of leaf-litter ant diversity along a tropical elevational gradient in Mexico. Journal of Biogeography, (48), 10, pp. 2512-2523, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14217.

P. Alvarez-Mendizabal, F. Villalobos, K. Rodriguez-Hernandez, C. Hernandez-Lara, O. Rico-Chavez, G. Suzan, L. Chapa-Vargas, D. Santiago-Alarcon (2021). Metacommunity structure reveals that temperature affects the landscape compositional patterns of avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites across elevations. Acta Oecologica, (113), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2021.103789.

A.B. Garcia-Andrade, J.D. Carvajal-Quintero, P.A. Tedesco, F. Villalobos (2021). Evolutionary and environmental drivers of species richness in poeciliid fishes across the Americas. Global Ecology and Biogeography, (30), 6, pp. 1245-1257, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13299.

A. Garcia-Rodriguez, J.A. Velasco, F. Villalobos, G. Parra-Olea (2021). Effects of evolutionary time, speciation rates and local abiotic conditions on the origin and maintenance of amphibian montane diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, (30), 3, pp. 674-684, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13249.

L.N. Bandeira, F. Villalobos, F.P. Werneck, A.T. Peterson, M. Anciaes (2021). Different elevational environments dictate contrasting patterns of niche evolution in Neotropical Pithecopus treefrog species. Biotropica, (53), 4, pp. 1042-1051, https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12929.

B. Kusumoto, Y. Kubota, T. Shiono, F. Villalobos (2021). Biogeographical origin effects on exotic plants colonization in the insular flora of Japan. Biological Invasions, (23), 9, pp. 2973-2984, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02550-3.

L. Jardim, L.M. Bini, J.A.F. Diniz-Filho, F. Villalobos (2021). A Cautionary Note on Phylogenetic Signal Estimation from Imputed Databases. Evolutionary Biology, (48), 2, pp. 246-258, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-021-09534-0.

D.M.C.C. Alves, A.A. Eduardo, E.V. {da Silva Oliveira}, F. Villalobos, R. Dobrovolski, T.C. Pereira, A. {de Souza Ribeiro}, J. Stropp, J.F.M. Rodrigues, J.A.F. Diniz-Filho, S.F. Gouveia (2020). Unveiling geographical gradients of species richness from scant occurrence data. Global Ecology and Biogeography, (29), 4, pp. 748-759, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13055.

R.A. Sanchez-Guillen, S. Ceccarelli, F. Villalobos, S. Neupane, A. Rivas-Torres, I. Sanmartin-Villar, M. Wellenreuther, S.M. Bybee, M.I. Velasquez-Velez, E. Realpe, J.R. Chavez-Rios, H.J. Dumont, A. Cordero-Rivera (2020). The evolutionary history of colour polymorphism in ischnura damselflies (Odonata: Coenagrionidae). Odonatologica, (49), 3-4, pp. 333-370, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4268559.

J.N. Pinto-Ledezma, F. Villalobos, P.B. Reich, J.A. Catford, D.J. Larkin, J. Cavender-Bares (2020). Testing Darwin’s naturalization conundrum based on taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional dimensions of vascular plants. Ecological Monographs, (90), 4, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1420.

W. Dattilo, N. Barrozo-Chavez, A. Lira-Noriega, R. Guevara, F. Villalobos, D. Santiago-Alarcon, F.S. Neves, T. Izzo, S.P. Ribeiro (2020). Species-level drivers of mammalian ectoparasite faunas. Journal of Animal Ecology, (89), 8, pp. 1754-1765, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13216.

A. Sanchez-Barradas, F. Villalobos (2020). Species geographical co-occurrence and the effect of Grinnellian and Eltonian niche partitioning: The case of a Neotropical felid assemblage. Ecological Research, (35), 2, pp. 382-393, https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1703.12070.

R.A. Sanchez-Guillen, A. Cordero-Rivera, A. Rivas-Torres, M. Wellenreuther, S. Bybee, B. Hansson, M.I. Velasquez-Velez, E. Realpe, J.R. Chavez-Rios, F. Villalobos, H. Dumont (2020). Retracted: The evolutionary history of colour polymorphism in Ischnura damselflies (International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology, (2009), 6, 4, (551), 10.1111/jeb.13289). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, (33), 4, pp. 551, https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13289.

J. Nori, R. Loyola, F. Villalobos (2020). Priority areas for conservation of and research focused on terrestrial vertebrates. Conservation Biology, (34), 5, pp. 1281-1291, https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13476.

S. Ceccarelli, S.A. Justi, J.E. Rabinovich, J.A.F. {Diniz Filho}, F. Villalobos (2020). Phylogenetic structure of geographical co-occurrence among New World Triatominae species, vectors of Chagas disease. Journal of Biogeography, (47), 6, pp. 1218-1231, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13810.

W. Dattilo, M. Vasquez-Bolanos, D.A. Ahuatzin, R. Antoniazzi, E. Chavez-Gonzalez, E. Corro, P. Luna, R. Guevara, F. Villalobos, R. Madrigal-Chavero, J.C.D.F. Falcao, A. Bonilla-Ramirez, A.R.G. Romero, A. {de la Mora}, A. Ramirez-Hernandez, A.L. Escalante-Jimenez, A.P. Martinez-Falcon, A.I. Villarreal, A.G.C. Sandoval, B. Aponte, B. Juarez-Juarez, C. Castillo-Guevara, C.E. Moreno, C. Albor, D.L. Martinez-Tlapa, E. Huber-Sannwald, F. Escobar, F.J. Montiel-Reyes, F. Varela-Hernandez, G. Castano-Meneses, G. Perez-Lachaud, G.R. Perez-Toledo, I. Alcala-Martinez, I.S. Rivera-Salinas, I. Chairez-Hernandez, I.A. Chamorro-Florescano, J. Hernandez-Flores, J.M. Toledo, J.-P. Lachaud, J.L. Reyes-Munoz, J.E. Valenzuela-Gonzalez, J.V. Horta-Vega, J.D. Cruz-Labana, J.J. Reynoso-Campos, J.L. Navarrete-Heredia, J.A. Rodriguez-Garza, J.F. Perez-Dominguez, J. Benitez-Malvido, K.K. Ennis, L. Saenz, L.A. Diaz-Montiel, L.A. Tarango-Arambula, L.N. Quiroz-Robedo, M. Rosas-Mejia, M. Villalvazo-Palacios, M. Gomez-Lazaga, M. Cuautle, M.J. Aguilar-Mendez, M.L. Baena, M. Madora-Astudillo, M. Rocha-Ortega, M. Pale, M.A. Garcia-Martinez, M.A. Soto-Cardenas, M.M. Correa-Ramirez, M. Janda, P. Rojas, R. Torres-Ricario, R.W. Jones, R. Coates, S.L. Gomez-Acevedo, S. Ugalde-Lezama, S.M. Philpott, T. Joaqui, T. Marques, V. Zamora-Gutierrez, V. {Martinez Mandujano}, Z. Hajian-Forooshani, I. {MacGregor-Fors } (2020). Mexico ants: incidence and abundance along the Nearctic–Neotropical interface. Ecology, (101), 4, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2944.

J.A. Velasco, F. Villalobos, J.A.F. Diniz-Filho, S. Poe, O. Flores-Villela (2020). Macroecology and macroevolution of body size in Anolis lizards. Ecography, (43), 6, pp. 812-822, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04583.

D. Gonzalez-Tokman, A. Cordoba-Aguilar, W. Dattilo, A. Lira-Noriega, R.A. Sanchez-Guillen, F. Villalobos (2020). Insect responses to heat: physiological mechanisms, evolution and ecological implications in a warming world. Biological Reviews, (95), 3, pp. 802-821, https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12588.

B. Kusumoto, F. Villalobos, T. Shiono, Y. Kubota (2019). Reconciling Darwin’s naturalization and pre-adaptation hypotheses: An inference from phylogenetic fields of exotic plants in Japan. Journal of Biogeography, (46), 11, pp. 2597-2608, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13683.

J.N. Pinto-Ledezma, A.E. Jahn, V.R. Cueto, J.A.F. Diniz-Filho, F. Villalobos (2019). Drivers of phylogenetic assemblage structure of the furnariides, a widespread clade of lowland neotropical birds. American Naturalist, (193), 2, pp. E41-E56, https://doi.org/10.1086/700696.

J. Carvajal-Quintero, F. Villalobos, T. Oberdorff, G. Grenouillet, S. Brosse, B. Hugueny, C. Jezequel, P.A. Tedesco (2019). Drainage network position and historical connectivity explain global patterns in freshwater fishes’ range size. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, (116), 27, pp. 13434-13439, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1902484116.

J.F.M. Rodrigues, F. Villalobos, J.B. Iverson, J.A.F. Diniz-Filho (2019). Climatic niche evolution in turtles is characterized by phylogenetic conservatism for both aquatic and terrestrial species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, (32), 1, pp. 66-75, https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13395.

M.a. Olalla-Tarraga, T.F. Amado, L.M. Bini, P.A. Martinez, I. Morales-Castilla, E.J. Torres-Romero, F. Villalobos (2019). Biological traits, phylogeny and human footprint signatures on the geographical range size of passerines (Order Passeriformes) worldwide. Global Ecology and Biogeography, (28), 8, pp. 1183-1194, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12924.

S.J.E. Velazco, F. Villalobos, F. Galvao, P. {De Marco Junior} (2019). A dark scenario for Cerrado plant species: Effects of future climate, land use and protected areas ineffectiveness. Diversity and Distributions, (25), 4, pp. 660-673, https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12886.

F. Villalobos, A. Lira-Noriega, P. Rodriguez (2018). Is species geographic overlap constant across latitude? A homage to E. H. Rapoport. Oecologia Australis, (22), 2 Special Issue, pp. 144-155, https://doi.org/10.4257/oeco.2018.2202.04.

J.M. Bennett, P. Calosi, S. Clusella-Trullas, B. Martinez, J. Sunday, A.C. Algar, M.B. Araujo, B.A. Hawkins, S. Keith, I. Kuhn, C. Rahbek, L. Rodriguez, A. Singer, F. Villalobos, M. {angel Olalla-Tarraga}, I. Morales-Castilla (2018). GlobTherm, a global database on thermal tolerances for aquatic and terrestrial organisms. Scientific Data, (5), https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.22.

J. Nori, F. Villalobos, R. Loyola (2018). Global priority areas for amphibian research. Journal of Biogeography, (45), 11, pp. 2588-2594, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13435.

D.M.C.C. Alves, J.A.F. Diniz-Filho, K. {da Silva e Souza}, S.F. Gouveia, F. Villalobos (2018). Geographic variation in the relationship between large-scale environmental determinants and bat species richness. Basic and Applied Ecology, (27), pp. 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2017.12.002.

J.A. Velasco, F. Villalobos, J.A.F. Diniz-Filho, A.C. Algar, O. Flores-Villela, G. Kohler, S. Poe, E. Martinez-Meyer (2018). Climatic and evolutionary factors shaping geographical gradients of species richness in Anolis lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, (123), 3, pp. 615-627, https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blx160.

S.J.E. Velazco, F. Galvao, F. Villalobos, P. {De Marco} (2017). Using worldwide edaphic data to model plant species niches: An assessment at a continental extent. PLoS ONE, (12), 10, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186025.

J.N. Pinto-Ledezma, L.M. Simon, J.A.F. Diniz-Filho, F. Villalobos (2017). The geographical diversification of Furnariides: the role of forest versus open habitats in driving species richness gradients. Journal of Biogeography, (44), 8, pp. 1683-1693, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12939.

B.A. Hawkins, B. Leroy, M.a. Rodriguez, A. Singer, B. Vilela, F. Villalobos, X. Wang, D. Zeleny (2017). Structural bias in aggregated species-level variables driven by repeated species co-occurrences: a pervasive problem in community and assemblage data. Journal of Biogeography, (44), 6, pp. 1199-1211, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12953.

F. Villalobos, M.a. Olalla-Tarraga, C.M. Vieira, N.D. Mazzei, L.M. Bini (2017). Spatial dimension of body size evolution in pterosauria: Bergmann's rule does not drive Cope's rule. Evolutionary Ecology Research, (18), 2, pp. 169-186.

F.P. Peixoto, F. Villalobos, M.V. Cianciaruso (2017). Phylogenetic conservatism of climatic niche in bats. Global Ecology and Biogeography, (26), 9, pp. 1055-1065, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12618.

P. Rodriguez, F. Villalobos, A. Sanchez-Barradas, M.E. Correa-Cano (2017). Macroecology in Mexico: history, progress and perspectives [La macroecologia en Mexico: historia, avances y perspectivas]. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, (88), pp. 52-64, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmb.2017.10.006.

D.M.C.C. Alves, J.A.F. Diniz-Filho, F. Villalobos (2017). Integrating selection, niche, and diversification into a hierarchical conceptual framework. Organisms Diversity and Evolution, (17), 1, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-016-0299-x.

F. Villalobos, M.a. Olalla-Tarraga, M.V. Cianciaruso, T.F. Rangel, J.A.F. Diniz-Filho (2017). Global patterns of mammalian co-occurrence: phylogenetic and body size structure within species ranges. Journal of Biogeography, (44), 1, pp. 136-146, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12826.

F.P. Peixoto, F. Villalobos, A.S. Melo, J.A.F. Diniz-Filho, R. Loyola, T.F. Rangel, M.V. Cianciaruso (2017). Geographical patterns of phylogenetic beta-diversity components in terrestrial mammals. Global Ecology and Biogeography, (26), 5, pp. 573-583, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12561.

D.M.C.C. Alves, J.A.F. Diniz-Filho, F. Villalobos (2017). Geographical diversification and the effect of model and data inadequacies: The bat diversity gradient as a case study. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, (121), 4, pp. 894-906, https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blx030.

E.B. Pereira, J.N. Pinto-Ledezma, C.G. {De Freitas}, F. Villalobos, R.G. Collevatti, N.M. Maciel (2017). Evolution of the anuran foam nest: Trait conservatism and lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, (122), 4, pp. 814-823, https://doi.org/10.1093/BIOLINNEAN/BLX110.

M.A. Olalla-Tarraga, M. Gonzalez-Suarez, R. Bernardo-Madrid, E. Revilla, F. Villalobos (2017). Contrasting evidence of phylogenetic trophic niche conservatism in mammals worldwide. Journal of Biogeography, (44), 1, pp. 99-110, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12823.

C. Barbosa, J.M. Otalora, E.L.H. Giehl, F. Villalobos, R. Loyola, G. Tessarolo, N. Machado, T.T. Castellani (2017). Changes in the realized niche of the invasive succulent CAM plant Furcraea foetida. Austral Ecology, (42), 6, pp. 643-654, https://doi.org/10.1111/aec.12483.

F. Villalobos, F. Carotenuto, P. Raia, J.A.F. Diniz-Filho (2016). Phylogenetic fields through time: Temporal dynamics of geographical co-occurrence and phylogenetic structure within species ranges. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, (371), 1691, https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0220.

A. Morales, F. Villalobos, P.M. Velazco, N.B. Simmons, D. Pinero (2016). Environmental niche drives genetic and morphometric structure in a widespread bat. Journal of Biogeography, (43), 5, pp. 1057-1068, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12666.

M.R. Moura, F. Villalobos, G.C. Costa, P.C.A. Garcia (2016). Disentangling the role of climate, topography and vegetation in species richness gradients. PLoS ONE, (11), 3, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152468.

J.M. Grandez-Rios, L.L. Bergamini, W.S. {De Araujo}, F. Villalobos, M. Almeida-Neto (2015). The effect of host-plant Phylogenetic isolation on species richness, composition and specialization of insect herbivores: A comparison between native and exotic hosts. PLoS ONE, (10), 9, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138031.

J.A.F. {Diniz Filho}, F. Villalobos, L.M. Bini (2015). The best of both worlds: Phylogenetic eigenvector regression and mapping. Genetics and Molecular Biology, (38), 3, pp. 396-400, https://doi.org/10.1590/S1415-475738320140391.

J.A.F. Diniz-Filho, D.M.C.C. Alves, F. Villalobos, M. Sakamoto, S.L. Brusatte, L.M. Bini (2015). Phylogenetic eigenvectors and nonstationarity in the evolution of theropod dinosaur skulls. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, (28), 7, pp. 1410-1416, https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12660.

B. Vilela, F. Villalobos (2015). LetsR: A new R package for data handling and analysis in macroecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, (6), 10, pp. 1229-1234, https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12401.

F. Villalobos, H.T. Arita (2014). Morphological diversity at different spatial scales in a Neotropical bat assemblage. Oecologia, (176), 2, pp. 557-568, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-014-3039-y.

H.T. Arita, J. Vargas-Baron, F. Villalobos (2014). Latitudinal gradients of genus richness and endemism and the diversification of New World bats. Ecography, (37), 11, pp. 1024-1033, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.00720.

S.F. Gouveia, F. Villalobos, R. Dobrovolski, R. Beltrao-Mendes, S.F. Ferrari (2014). Forest structure drives global diversity of primates. Journal of Animal Ecology, (83), 6, pp. 1523-1530, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12241.

F. Villalobos, A. Lira-Noriega, J. Soberon, H.T. Arita (2014). Co-diversity and co-distribution in phyllostomid bats: Evaluating the relative roles of climate and niche conservatism. Basic and Applied Ecology, (15), 1, pp. 85-91, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2013.11.001.

B. Vilela, F. Villalobos, M.a. Rodriguez, L.C. Terribile (2014). Body size, extinction risk and knowledge bias in new world snakes. PLoS ONE, (9), 11, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113429.

F. Villalobos, A. Lira-Noriega, J. Soberon, H.T. Arita (2013). Range-diversity plots for conservation assessments: Using richness and rarity in priority setting. Biological Conservation, (158), pp. 313-320, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2012.10.002.

F. Villalobos, T.F. Rangel, J.A.F. Diniz-Filho (2013). Phylogenetic fields of species: Cross-species patterns of phylogenetic structure and geographical coexistence. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, (280), 1756, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.2570.

F. Villalobos, R. Dobrovolski, D.B. Provete, S.F. Gouveia (2013). Is Rich and Rare the Common Share? Describing Biodiversity Patterns to Inform Conservation Practices for South American Anurans. PLoS ONE, (8), 2, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056073.

N. Barve, V. Barve, A. Jimenez-Valverde, A. Lira-Noriega, S.P. Maher, A.T. Peterson, J. Soberon, F. Villalobos (2011). The crucial role of the accessible area in ecological niche modeling and species distribution modeling. Ecological Modelling, (222), 11, pp. 1810-1819, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.02.011.

F. Villalobos, H.T. Arita (2010). The diversity field of New World leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae). Global Ecology and Biogeography, (19), 2, pp. 200-211, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00503.x.