Publications

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Published

5. Scott, E.V., Almeida, R.J., McKlin, S., Lippert, A. L., Clary, J., Vargas, C., Hidell, W., Wagymar, S., and K.G. Smith. 2023. Accepted. Habitat loss and simplification lower arthropod richness but not diversity. Ecosphere.

4. Almeida, R.J., Bonachela, J.A., and J.L. Lockwood. 2023. Multiple co-occurring bioeconomic drivers of overexploitation can accelerate rare species extinction risk. Journal of Applied Ecology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14376

3. Almeida, R.J., Berro, A.A.G., Lippert, A.L, Clary, D.J., McKlin, S., Scott, E.V., and K.G. Smith. 2021. Selective extinctions resulting from random habitat destruction lead to under‐estimates of local and regional biodiversity loss in a manipulative field experiment. Global Change Biology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15464

2. Seagle, M.P., Vierling, M.R., Almeida, R.J., Clary, D.J., Hidell, W., Scott, E.V., Vargas, C., and K.G. Smith. 2020. Low abundance of three tick species in the Piedmont of North Carolina. Journal of Medical Entomology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa171

1. Smith, K.G. and R.J. Almeida. 2020. When are extinctions simply bad luck? Rarefaction as a conceptual framework for disentangling stochastic and selective extinctions. Journal of Applied Ecology. 57: 101-110. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13510

In Preparation, Review, or Revision

Almeida, R.J., Mazza, A., & J.L. Lockwood. Under review. Does fortune follow function? Exploring links between marketable traits and functional traits in traded songbirds. To be submitted to People and Nature.

Almeida, R.J., Hyde, M.C., & J.L. Lockwood. In prep. How can we identify Anthropogenic Allee Effect in the wildlife trade? To be submitted to Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

Pre-Print

Almeida, R.J., Biro, E.G., Woods, L.M., and K.G. Smith. 2017. Pre-print. Species abundance plays a dominant role in local and regional extinctions in freshwater communities and allows the identification of selective extinctions. bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/219469