Scientific Publications
Scientific research is at the heart of the Climate Corridors initiative.
See the recent publications from our team
Mapping climate adaptation corridors for biodiversity—
A regional-scale case study in Central America
Plos One, May 2024
Abstract: Climate adaptation corridors are widely recognized as important for promoting biodiversity resilience under climate change. Central America is part of the Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot, but there have been no regional-scale analyses of potential climate adaptation corridors in Central America. We identified 2375 potential corridors throughout Central America ….
Authors: Ian M. McCullough, Christopher Beirne, Carolina Soto-Navarro, Andrew Whitworth
Scouts vs. usurpers: alternative foraging strategies facilitate
coexistence between neotropical Cathartid vultures
IBIS International Journal of Avian Science
Abstract: Understanding how diverse assemblages of scavengers can coexist on shared ecological resources is a fundamental challenge in community ecology. However, current approaches typically focus on behaviour at carcass provisioning sites, missing how important differences in movement behaviour and foraging strategies can facilitate sympatric species coexistence. Such information is particularly important for vultures – obligate scavengers representing the most endangered avian foraging guild.
Authors: Christopher Beirne, Mark Thomas, Arianna Basto, Eleanor Flatt, Giancarlo Inga Diaz, Diego Rolim Chulla, Adrian Forsyth, Andrew Whitworth …
High levels of mercury contamination in a necrophage dung beetle
of the Amazon rainforest (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
Biotropica, September 2023
Abstract: This study represents the first evidence of mercury contamination in the family Scarabaeidae, with a close focus on Coprophanaeus lancifer, the largest copro-necrophagous beetle in South America. This work shows the repartition of total mercury (THg) in the insect body and lays the groundwork for additional future studies …
Authors: Elena Chaboteaux, Alejandro Lopera Toro, Claudia Maribel Vega, Adrian Forsyth
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