Publications
Selected publications
- Gonçalves-Souza T, Chase JM, Haddad NM, Vancine MH, Didham RK, Melo FLP, Aizen MA, Bernard E, Chiarello AG, Faria D, Gibb H, de Lima MG, Magnago LFS, Mariano-Neto E, Nogueira AA, Nemésio A, Passamani M, Pinho BX, Rocha-Santos L, Rodrigues RC, Safar NVH, Santos BA, Soto-Werschitz A, Tabarelli M, Uehara-Prado M, Vasconcelos HL, Vieira S & Sanders NJ. (2025). Increasing species turnover does not alleviate biodiversity loss in fragmented landscapes. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08688-7. News and Views written by Robert Fletcher (link here) Media coverage
- Boldorini GX, McCary MA, Romero GQ, Mills KL, Sanders NJ, Reich PB, Michalko R & Gonçalves-Souza T (2024). Predators control pests and increase yield across crop types and climates: a meta-analysis. Proc. Royal Soc. B 291:20232522. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2522
- Pinho BX, Melo FLP, ter Braak CJF, Bauman D, Maréchaux I, Tabarelli M, Benchimol M, Arroyo-Rodriguez V, Santos BA, Hawes JE, Berenguer E, Ferreira J, Silveira JM, Peres CA, Rocha‐Santos L, Souza FC,Gonçalves-Souza T, Mariano-Neto E, Faria D & Barlow J (2025). Winner-loser plant trait replacements in human-modified tropical forests. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02592-5
- Martins PM, Poulin R, Gonçalves-Souza T. (2021). Integrating climate and host richness as drivers of global parasite diversity. Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 30:196–204. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13213
- Romero GQ, Gonçalves-Souza T, Kratina P, Marino NAC, Petry WK, Sobral-Souza T & Roslin T. (2018). Global predation pressure redistribution under future climate change. Nature Climate Change 8:1087–1091. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0347-y
Manuscripts in Review
Graco-Roza C, Wong M, Barber N, Brodersen J, Callisto M, Castro D, Dröse W, Etard A, Gonçalves-Souza T, Graham C, Huszar V, Isaia M, Lachat T, Marinho M, Moretti M, Ossola A, Piano E, Romero G, Seehausen O, Stavert J, Soininen J, Wohlgemuth T, Altermatt F, Gossner M, Roth T & Strebel N. (2025). Human pressure homogenizes species and traits globally. Preprint
Gonçalves-Souza T, Au TF, Brinkhoff RE, McPherson MR, Raubenheimer SL, Rocci KS, Song Y, Zheng L, Head JR, Chen X, Bardou R & Reich PB. Using a trait-based approach to integrate science disciplines in the face of global change.
Carmo RFR, Sena PHA, Melo FPL, Januario M, Carvalho T, von der Plas F, Wirth C, Reich PB & Gonçalves-Souza T. Functional and phylogenetic diversity drive leaf decomposition through differential interactions with climatic and disturbance gradients.
Luo W, Peay K, Gonçalves-Souza T, Reich PB, Zak DR & Zhu K. Climate and land-use changes predicted to jointly threaten soil fungal diversity in one-third of North American coniferous forests.
Boldorini GX, Martins PM, Brescovit AD, Santos AJ, Carvalho LS, Oliveira U, Russo P, Brito JCB, Barbosa AP, Rodrigues ACB, Cantalice AS, Rodrigues AAB, Chaves D, Gusmão RAF, Magalhães AR, Ferreira HG & Gonçalves-Souza T. SpiderATLAS: A database of spider traits and distributions in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.
Full list
Cantalice, A.S., Gonçalves-Souza, T., and Albuquerque, U.P. 2025. Effect of socioeconomic and anthropogenic variables on the richness of medicinal species on a macroscale. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 21
Gonçalves-Souza, T., Chase, J., Haddad, N., others, and Sanders, N.J. 2025. Increasing species turnover does not alleviate biodiversity loss in fragmented landscapes. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08688-7
Gonçalves-Souza, T., others, and Chase, J. 2025. LANDFRAG: A dataset to investigate the effects of forest loss and fragmentation on biodiversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70015
Leandro-Silva, V., Gonçalves-Souza, T., and Naka, L. 2025. Ecological and morphological traits determine community-wide responses of birds to climate change in a tropical dry forest. Journal of Biogeography https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.70026
Pinho, B.X., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2025. Winner-loser plant trait replacements in human-modified tropical forests. Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02592-5
Soares, B.E., others, Gonçalves-Souza, T., others, and Vidor, C.B. 2025. The “conhecimento brasil” program neglects the structural problems of brazilian science and fails to offer a solution to the brain drain. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 97 https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202520240496
Boldorini, G.X., McCary, M.A., Romero, G.Q., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2024. Predators control pests and increase yield across crop types and climates: A meta-analysis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291 : 20232522 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2522
Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2024. Trophic cascades regulate arthropods density and plant damage across forest strata. Journal of Animal Ecology 93 : 1639–1642
Gonçalves-Souza, T., Chaves, L.S., Boldorini, G.X., Ferreira, N., Gusmão, R.A.F., others, and Umaña, M.N. 2024. ZooTraits: An r shiny app for exploring animal trait data for ecological and evolutionary research. Ecology and Evolution : e11334
Gusmão, R.A.F., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2024. Body size and trophic levels explain global asymmetric response of tetrapod diversity to climate effects. Ecology and Evolution 14 : e11047
Monteiro Ferreira, P.S., Gonçalves-Souza, T., et al. 2024. Biogeographic history and environmental gradients modulate non-stationary patterns of tropical tree diversity. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 96 : e20230063
Sousa, T.B.B., Ferreira Júnior, W.S., Gonçalves-Souza, T., and Ramos, M.A. 2024. The perception of availability explains the use value of plants: Investigating the ecological apparency hypothesis. Human Ecology 78
VanValkenburg, E., Gonçalves-Souza, T., Sanders, N.J., and CaraDonna, P. 2024. Sodium-enriched nectar shapes plant–pollinator interactions in a subalpine meadow. Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70026
Garey, M.V., Gonçalves-Souza, T., et al. 2023. Explaining the anuran beta diversity by pond living tadpoles: The role of dispersal limitation and environmental gradients through multiple scales. Diversity and Distributions 29 : 1609–1622
Gonçalves-Souza, T., Chaves, L.S., Boldorini, G.X., Ferreira, N., Gusmão, R.A.F., et al. 2023. Bringing light onto the raunkiæran shortfall: A comprehensive review of traits used in functional animal ecology. Ecology and Evolution 13(4)
Magalhães, A.R., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2023. Neglected tropical diseases risk correlates with poverty and early ecosystem destruction. Infectious Diseases of Poverty 12 : 32
Bernal-Valle, S., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2022. Parasitic infections, hematological and biochemical parameters suggest appropriate health status of wild coati populations in anthropic atlantic forest remnants. Veterinary Parasitology: Regional Studies and Reports 30 : 100963
Ferreira, N., Omena, P.M., Gonçalves-Souza, T., et al. 2022. Water availability and quality determine temporal synchrony and beta diversity of microcrustaceans in temporary pools. Freshwater Science 41(2)
Gonçalves-Souza, T., Alves, R.R.N., et al. 2022. Editorial: Integrating traditional ecological knowledge into ecology, evolution, and conservation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.1015457
Pereira, C.C., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2022. Subtle structures with not‐so‐subtle functions: A data set of arthropod constructs and their host plants. Ecology 103 : e03639
Romero, G.Q., Gonçalves-Souza, T., others, and Koricheva, J. 2022. Climate variability and drought modulate the role of structural refuges for arthropods: A global experiment. Global Change Biology 28 : 3694
Sena, P.H.A., Gonçalves-Souza, T., Gonçalves, P., Monteiro Ferreira, P.S., Gusmão, R.A.F., and Melo, F.P.L. 2022. Biocultural restoration improves delivery of ecosystem services in social-ecological landscapes. Restoration Ecology 30 : e13599
Silva, F.R. da, Gonçalves-Souza, T., Paterno, G., Vancine, M., and Provete, D. 2022. Ecological analysis in r (portuguese) https://analises-ecologicas.com/
Silva, R.R., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2022. The atlantic ants, the data paper of ants from brazilian atlantic forest. Ecology 103 : e03580
Albuquerque, U.P., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2021. A reply to pierotti’s (2018) review of “evolutionary ethnobiology”: Decolonizing latin american science. Ethnobiology Letters 12 : 79
Albuquerque, U.P., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2021. Integrating traditional ecological knowledge into academic research at local and global scales. Regional Environmental Change 21 : 45
Alves, R.R., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2021. A global analysis of the evolutionary drivers of wild mammals use in traditional medicine. Mammal Review 51 : 293–306
Gusmão, R.A.F., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2021. Host diversity outperforms climate as a global driver of symbiont diversity in the bird-feather mite system. Diversity and Distributions 27 : 416–426
Lima, A.L.A., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2021. Phenology of high-and low-density wood deciduous species responds differently to water supply in tropical semiarid regions. Journal of Arid Environments 193 : 104594
Martins, P.M., Poulin, R., and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2021. Drivers of parasite \(\beta\)-diversity among anuran hosts depend on scale, realm and parasite group. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376 : 20200367
Martins, P.M., Poulin, R., and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2021. Integrating climate and host richness as drivers of global parasite diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30 : 196–204 https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13213
Pekár, S., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2021. The world spider trait database: A centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits. Database 2021 : baab064
Albuquerque, U.P., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2020. Addressing social-ecological systems across temporal and spatial scales: A conceptual synthesis for ethnobiology. Human Ecology 48 : 557–571
Antiqueira, P.A.P., Omena, P.M., Gonçalves-Souza, T., others, and Romero, G.Q. 2020. Precipitation and predation risk alter the diversity and behavior of pollinators and reduce plant fitness. Oecologia 192 : 745–753
Gonçalves, P.H.S., Gonçalves-Souza, T., and Albuquerque, U.P. 2020. Chronic anthropogenic disturbances as an emerging topic in ecology: A bibliometric approach. Scientometrics 123 : 1103–1107
Gonçalves-Souza, T., Diniz-Filho, J.A.F., and Albuquerque, U.P. 2020. Why scientific information does not necessarily impact the decisions by human society. Ethnobiology and Conservation 9 : 9–11
Jeliazkov, A., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2020. A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space. Scientific Data 7 : 6
Lowe, E., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2020. Towards a centralized spider traits database. Journal of Arachnology 48 : 103–109
Naka, L., Laranjeiras, T., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2020. Climate as a major driver of avian diversity in riparian amazonian habitats along an environmental gradient. Journal of Biogeography 47 : 2328–2340
Albuquerque, U.P., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2019. Social-ecological theory of maximization: Basic concepts and two initial models. Biological Theory 14 : 73–85
Chase, J., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2019. FragSAD: A database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments. Ecology 100 : e02861
Gonçalves-Souza, T., Garey, M.V., Silva, F.R., Albuquerque, U.P., and Provete, D.B. 2019. Multidimensional analyses for testing ecological, ethnobiological, and conservation hypotheses. Methods and techniques in ethnobiology and ethnoecology
Gonçalves-Souza, T., Garey, M.V., Silva, F.R., Provete, D.B., and Albuquerque, U.P. 2019. Going back to basics: How to master the art of making scientifically sound questions. Methods and techniques in ethnobiology and ethnoecology
Gusmão, P.H.P., Sena, P.H.A., Bernabé, T.N., Ouchi-Melo, L.S., and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2019. Interspecific plant functional variation prevails over intraspecific in driving spider beta-diversity. Ecological Entomology 45 : 202–212
Morais-Junior, C.S., Melo, M., Gonçalves-Souza, T., et al. 2019. Zoochory of zooplankton: Seasonality and bird morphological diversity can influence metacommunity dynamics of temporary ponds. Journal of Plankton Research 41 : 465–477
Morais-Junior, C.S., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2019. Bird feet morphology drives the dispersal of rotifers and microcrustaceans in a neotropical temporary pond. Aquatic Sciences 81 : 69
Corte, G., Gonçalves-Souza, T., et al. 2018. When time affects space: Dispersal ability and extreme weather events determine metacommunity organization in marine sediments. Marine Environmental Research 136 : 139–152
Garey, M., Provete, D.B., Gonçalves-Souza, T., Ouchi-Melo, L.S., et al. 2018. Phylogenetic and adaptive components of the anuran advertisement call correlate with temporal species co-occurrence. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 : 292–301
Giupponi, A.P.L., Demite, P.R., Flechtmann, C.H.W., Hernandes, F.A., Mendes, A.C., Migliorini, G.H., et al. 2018. Arachnids from the atlantic forest (portuguese). Reviews in zoology: Atlantic forest
Lima, H., others, Gonçalves-Souza, T., and Naka, L.N. 2018. Ecological and phylogenetic predictors of mobbing behavior in a tropical dry forest. Ecology and Evolution 8 : 12615–12628
Ouchi-Melo, L.S., Meynard, C.N., Gonçalves-Souza, T., and Rossa-Feres, D.C. 2018. Integrating phylogenetic and functional biodiversity facets to guide conservation: A case study using anurans in a global biodiversity hotspot. Biodiversity and Conservation 27 : 3247–3266
Romero, G.Q., Gonçalves-Souza, T., Kratina, P., others, and Roslin, T. 2018. Global predation pressure redistribution under future climate change. Nature Climate Change 8 : 1087–1091 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0347-y
Sena, P.H.A., Lins-e-Silva, A.C.B., and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2018. Integrating trait and evolutionary differences untangles how biodiversity affects ecosystem functioning. Oecologia 188 : 1121–1132
Ouchi-Melo, L.S., Gonçalves-Souza, T., et al. 2017. Tadpole species richness within lentic and lotic microhabitats: An interactive influence of environmental and spatial factors. Herpetological Journal 27 : 339–345
Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2016. Induced biotic response in amazonian ant-plants: The role of leaf damage intensity and plant-derived food rewards on ant recruitment. Sociobiology 63 : 919–924
Miranda, G., Milleri-Pinto, M., Gonçalves-Souza, T., et al. 2016. A new species of charinus simon 1892 (amblypygi, charinidae) from brazil, with notes on behavior. ZooKeys 621 : 15–36
Romero, G., others, and Gonçalves-Souza, T. 2016. Food web structure shaped by habitat size and climate across a latitudinal gradient. Ecology 97 : 2705–2715
Gonçalves-Souza, T., Araújo, M.S., et al. 2015. Fine-scale beta-diversity patterns across multiple arthropod taxa over a neotropical latitudinal gradient. Biotropica 47 : 588–594
Gonçalves-Souza, T., Santos, A.J., et al. 2015. Conservation along a hotspot rim: Spiders in brazilian coastal restingas. Biodiversity and Conservation 24 : 1131–1146
Romero, G.Q., Gonçalves-Souza, T., and Cottenie, K. 2015. Ecosystem engineering effects on species diversity across ecosystems: A meta-analysis. Biological Reviews 90 : 877–890
Gonçalves-Souza, T., Diniz-Filho, J.A.F., and Romero, G.Q. 2014. Disentangling phylogenetic and ecological components of spider phenotypic variation. PLOS ONE 9(2) : e89314
Gonçalves-Souza, T., Giupponi, A.P.L., and Hernandes, F.A. 2014. A rare finding of mites parasitizing a whip spider (arachnida, amblypygi, charinidae). Folia Parasitologica 61 : 182–184
Gonçalves-Souza, T., Romero, G.Q., and Cottenie, K. 2014. Metacommunity versus biogeography: A case study of two groups of neotropical vegetation dwelling arthropods. PLOS ONE 9 : e115137734
Provete, D.B., Gonçalves-Souza, T., et al. 2014. Broad-scale spatial patterns of pond morphology and canopy cover affect the structure of neotropical tadpole metacommunity. Hydrobiologia 734 : 69–79
Gonçalves-Souza, T., Romero, G.Q., and Cottenie, K. 2013. A critical analysis of the ubiquity of linear local–regional richness relationships. Oikos 122 : 960–966
Casatti, L., Teresa, F.B., Gonçalves-Souza, T., et al. 2012. From forests to cattail: How does the riparian zone influence stream fish? Neotropical Ichthyology 10 : 205–214
Gonçalves-Souza, T., Almeida-Neto, M., and Romero, G.Q. 2011. Bromeliad architectural complexity and vertical distribution predict spider abundance and richness. Austral Ecology 36 : 476–484
Gonçalves-Souza, T., Brescovit, A.D., et al. 2010. Bromeliad as biodiversity amplifiers and habitat segregation of spider communities in a neotropical rainforest. Journal of Arachnology 38 : 270–279
Gonçalves-Souza, T., Matallana, G., and Brescovit, A.D. 2008. Effects of habitat fragmentation on the spider community (arachnida, araneae) in three atlantic forest remnants in southeastern brazil. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 16 : 35–42
Gonçalves-Souza, T., Omena, P.M., et al. 2008. Trait-mediated effects on flowers: Artificial spiders deceive pollinators and decrease plant fitness. Ecology 89 : 2407–2413
Carmo, R.F.R., Carvalho, C.H., Gusmão, R.A.S., Alencar, L.F.C.S., Vizentin-Bugoni, J., and Gonçalves-Souza, T. Invasive grass and honeybees alter plant-pollinator network structure in the brazilian caatinga. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências