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27. Ferraço LL*, Côrtes MC, Faria D, Koch EBA, Cassano CR (2025) The role of fruit characteristics in the frugivory of yellow-breasted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus xanthosternos) in a tropical forest. International Journal of Primatology.
26. Motta CI*, Saranholi BH, Godoy VM*, Côrtes MC (2025) DNA metabarcoding reveals greater plant diversity than morphological seed analysis of bird feces. Applications in Plant Sciences. e70021.
25. Timmers R*, Côrtes MC, van Kuijk M, Canassa GG*, Staneke R, Rosin FSO*, van Hooff MPJ, Knuit JJH, Pires MM, Soons MB (2025) Landscape-scale forest cover shapes the complexity of seed-dispersal networks in regenerating forest fragments. Biological Conservation. 309
24. Azevedo-Silva M*, Sendoya SF, Côrtes MC, Longo PAS, Nogueira A, Mori GM, Hirota SK, Suyama Y, Souza AP, Oliveira PS (2025) Sugar-rich resources mediate geographic morphological variation in a dominant, Neotropical Savanna ant. Journal of Biogoegraphy.0: 1–14
(A) Worker of C. crassus tending a hemipteran trophobiont. (B) Specimen of Camponotus crassus from Serra da Canastra (state of Minas Gerais, SE Brazil), showing low pilosity on the mesosoma and (C) worker from Itirapina, (state of São Paulo, SE Brazil), showing high pilosity on the mesosoma.
Standardized effect sizes and 95% confidence intervals of predictors (explanatory operational variables) from the averaged model for (A) pilosity and (B) hair density. Significant effect size, whose confidence interval does not overlap zero (dashed line), is highlighted by the asterisk. Bio1 = annual mean temperature, Bio15 = precipitation seasonality, DNIy = annual direct normal irradiation, DIFy = annual diffuse horizontal irradiation, Density = mean vegetation density, % Trophobionts = proportion of plants with trophobionts, % EFN = proportion of plants with extrafloral nectaries.
23. Baptista MS, Keroughlian A, Tambosi LR, Côrtes MC, Maciel FG, Cirino DW, Schmaedecke G, Biondo C. (2025) Agriculturally developed areas reduce genetic connectivity for a keystone Neotropical ungulate. Biotropica.57: e13418
Map of the parametrized landscape connectivity generated with Circuitscape, based on the model that best explains the genetic connectivity of white-lipped peccaries in the Pantanal plain and the adjacent plateau in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. This model consists of forest habitat and matrices of non-forested land cover (including savannas, grasslands, and agriculture) and linear barriers (paved and unpaved roads).
Source: Tomás Tamagno, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Tayassu pecari
22. Carvalho CS, Côrtes MC (2023) Landscape Genetics in the Neotropics. In: Galetti Jr. PM (eds) Conservation Genetics in the Neotropics. Springer, Cham.
21. Azevedo-Silva M*, Côrtes MC, Carvalho CS, Mori GM, Souza AP, Oliveira PS (2023) Landscape genetics in a highly threatened environment: how relevant to ants is the physiognomic mosaic of the cerrado savanna? Conservation Genetics.
20. Silveira dos Santos J, Vitorino LC, Gonçalves RF*, Côrtes MC, Alves RSC, Ribeiro MC, Collevatti RG. (2022) Matrix dominance and landscape resistance affect genetic variability and differentiation of an Atlantic Forest pioneer tree. Landscape Ecology.
Conectivity surfaces
Conectivity surfaces
19. André CL*, Côrtes MC, Heming NM, Galetti M, Alves RSC, Bovendorp RS. (2022) Bamboo shapes the fine-scale richness, abundance, and habitat use of small mammals in a forest fragment. Mammal Research.
18. Friedemann P*, Côrtes MC, Castro ER, Galetti M, Jordano P, Guimarães Jr. PR. (2022) The individual-based network structure of palm-seed dispersers is explained by a rainforest gradient. Oikos. 2 (e08384).
Observed network modularity across all three habitats using presence-absence data.
Observed network modularity across all three habitats using presence-absence data.
17. Carvalho CS*, García C, Souza M*, Jordano P, Côrtes MC. (2021) Extant fruit-eating birds promote genetically diverse seed rain, but disperse to fewer sites in defaunated tropical forests. Journal of Ecology. 109:1055–1067.
16. Carvalho CS*, Souza M*, Côrtes MC. (2021) Rescuing intraspecific variation in human impacted environments. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58 (2): 350-359.
15. Azevedo-Silva M*, Mori GM, Carvalho CS*, Côrtes MC, Souza AP, Oliveira PS (2020) Breeding systems and genetic diversity in tropical carpenter ant colonies: different strategies for similar outcomes in Brazilian Cerrado savannas. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 190 (3): 1020–1035.
14. Souza M*, Carvalho CS*, Hypolito GB*, Côrtes MC (2019) Optimized protocol to isolate high quality genomic DNA from different tissues of a palm species. Hoehnea. 46: e942018.
13. Carvalho CS*, Valverde J, Souza M*, Ribeiro T, Nazareth S, Galetti M, Côrtes MC (2019) Seed dispersal in tropical forest remnants: the role of thrushes in maintaining the genetic diversity and structure of Euterpe edulis. Ecosistemas. 28 (1): 26-34.
12. Carvalho CS*, Ballesteros-Mejia L, Ribeiro MC, Côrtes MC, Santos AS & Collevatti RG (2017). Climatic stability and contemporary human impacts affect the genetic diversity and conservation status of a tropical palm in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Conservation Genetics. 18: 467-478.
11. Carvalho CS*, Ribeiro MC, Côrtes MC, Galetti M, Collevatti RG (2014) Contemporary and historic factors influence differently genetic differentiation and diversity in a tropical palm. Heredity. 115 (3): 216-224.
10. Mokross K, Ryder TB, Côrtes MC, Wolfe JD, Stouffer PC (2014) Decay of interspecific avian flock networks along a disturbance gradient in Amazonia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 281 (1776).
9. Canuto J., Alves-Pereira A & Côrtes MC (2014). Genética nos estudos com polinização. In: Biologia da Polinização (eds. Rech AR, Agostini K, Oliveira PE & Machado IC). Projeto Cultural Rio de Janeiro, pp. 439-460.
8. Côrtes MC, Uriarte M, Lemes MR, Gribel R, Kress WJ, Smouse PE, Bruna EM (2013) Low plant density enhances gene dispersal in the Amazonian understory herb Heliconia acuminata. Molecular Ecology. 22 (22): 5716-5729. Data archived at the Dryad repository
7. Galetti M, Guevara R, Côrtes MC, Fadini R, Von Matter S, Leite AB, Labecca F, Ribeiro T, Carvalho CS, Collevatti RG, Pires MM, Guimarães PG, Brancalion PH, Ribeiro MC, Jordano, P (2013) Functional extinction of birds drives rapid evolutionary changes in seed size. Science. 340 (6136): 1086-1090. Data archived at the Dryad repository
6. Côrtes MC & Uriarte M (2013) Integrating frugivory and animal movement: a review of the evidence and implications for scaling seed dispersal. Biological Reviews. 88 (2): 255-272.
5. Castro ER, Côrtes MC, Navarro L, Galetti M, Morellato PC. (2012) Temporal variation in the abundance of two species of thrushes in relation to fruiting phenology in the Atlantic Rainforest. Emu – Austral Ornithology. 112 (2): 137-148.
4. Genini J, Côrtes MC, Guimarães PR, Galetti M. (2012) Mistletoes play different roles in a parasitism network. Biotropica. 44(2): 171-178.
3. Côrtes MC, Gowda V, Kress J, Bruna E, Uriarte, M. (2009) Characterization of ten microsatellite markers for the understory Amazonian herb Heliconia acuminata. Molecular Ecology Resources. 9: 1261-1264.
2. Côrtes MC, Cazetta E, Staggemeier VG, Galetti M. (2009) Linking frugivore activity to early recruitment of a bird dispersed tree, Eugenia umbelliflora (Myrtaceae). Austral Ecology. 34: 249-258.
1. Uriarte M, Yackulic C, Cooper T, Flynn D, Côrtes MC, Crk T, Cullman G, McGinty M, Sircely J. (2009) Expansion of sugarcane production in São Paulo, Brazil: implications for fire occurrence and respiratory health. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment. 132: 48-56.
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