Publications

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In press

• Silva, J. C. F., Gonçalves, M. S. S., Bastazini, V. A. G., & Dias, R. A. Influence of habitat structure and spatial configuration on bird abundance in wet grassland patches. Biodiversity & Conservation.

2026

• Mestre, F., & Bastazini, V. A. G. Metawebs as a tool to connect ecology and biogeography: A critical review. Ecological Modelling 519: 111674.

• Dasoler, B., Teixeira, F., Kindel, A., Ascensão, F., & Bastazini, V. A. G. Wildlife road crossings: A mechanistic trait- and landscape-based model. Ecological Modelling 516: 111579.

• Mestre, F., Galiana, N., Bastazini, V. A. G., González-del-Pliego, P., & Araújo, M. B. Contrasting roles of threatened and non-threatened species in European food webs. Diversity & Distributions 32(2): e70133.

• Mestre, F., Quiles, P., Bastazini, V. A. G., & Ascensão, F. Road effects on species interactions. In D’Amico, M., Barrientos, R., & Ascensão, F. (Eds.), Road Ecology: Synthesis and Perspectives. Springer, pp. 133–142. ISBNs: (hardcover) 978-3-032-16640-1, (softcover) 978-3-032-16643-2, (eBook) 978-3-032-16641-8.

• González-del-Pliego, P., & Bastazini, V. A. G. Diversity and extinction risk of Colombian Andean amphibians across life regions. In Navas, C., Piantoni, C., Catenazzi, A., Urbina-Cardona, N. (Eds.), Andean herpetofauna - explorations of diversity, ecology, and conservation. Springer, pp. 295–304. ISBNs: (hardcover) 978-3-032-00073-6, (softcover) 978-3-032-00076-7, (eBook) 978-3-032-00074-3.

2025

• Dias, R. A., Bastazini, V. A. G., Gianuca, A., & Matthews, T. J. The spatial scaling of multiple dimensions of functional diversity in habitat islands. Functional Ecology 39(11): 3164-3180.

• Hofmann, G. S., Weber, E., Bastazini, V. A. G., Rossatto, D.R., Franco, A.C., Granada, C. E., Kaminski, L. A., Ubaid, F. K., Leandro-Silva, V., Borges- Martins, M., Silva, R. C., Cardoso, M. F., Oliveira, L. F. B., Aquino, F. E., & Pereira, M. J. R. Climate change in the Brazilian Cerrado: A looming threat to terrestrial biodiversity. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 16(5): e70022.

• Mestre, F., D’Amico, M., Bastazini, V. A. G., Assis, J., Jacinto, D., Marçalo, A., & Ascensão, F. Mapping global shipless areas and conflict zones between shipping and large marine vertebrates. Biological Conservation 311: 111431.

• Bastazini, V. A. G. From pairwise interactions to community structure: A trait-based approach to inferring assembly mechanisms across spatial scales. Functional Ecology 39(9): 2174–2176.

• Mestre, F., Bastazini, V. A. G., & Ascensão, F. Effects of road density on regional food webs. Conservation Biology 39(4): e70007.

• Bastazini, V. A. G., & Hofmann, G.S. Southern Brazil’s 2024 floods: Causes, impacts, and how wetlands can help mitigate extreme climate disasters. SILNews - The International Society of Limnology Newsletter 85: 6-7.

• Franz, I., Chiarini, E., Bastazini, V. A. G. , Boldrini, I. I., & Fonatna, C. Nest site selection by a grassland-dependent Neotropical passerine, the Tawny-bellied Seedeater Sporophila hypoxantha. Ornithology Research 33(12): 1-9.

2024

• González-del-Pliego, P., Galiana, N., González-Trujillo, J. D., Mestre, F., Araújo, M. B., & Bastazini, V. A. G. Are threatened species important for glueing interaction networks together? Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation 22(4): 342-347.

• Luza, A.L., Bender, M.G., Ferreira, C.E.L., Floeter, S.R., Francini-Filho, R.B., Longo, G.O., Pinheiro, H.T., Quimbayo, J.P., & Bastazini, V. A. G. Coping with Collapse: Functional Robustness of Coral-Reef Fish Network to Simulated Cascade Extinction. Global Change Biology 30: e17513.

• Bergamin, R. S., Bastazini, V. A. G., Esquivel-Muelbert, A., Bordin, K., Klipel, J., Debastiani, V., Vibrans, A., Loyola, R., & Müller, S. Elevational shifts in tree community composition in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest related to climate change. Journal of Vegetation Science 35(4): e13289.

• Gonçalves, M., Bastazini, V. A. G., Andretti, C., Lanés, L. E., & Volcan, M. Ecologia e conservação de ecossistemas aquáticos do sul do Brasil. Editora USEB, 236p. ISBN: 978-85-89985-39-0.

• Bastazini, V. A. G., Gonçalves, M., Lima, L. T., Andretti, C., Lanés, L. E., Volcan, M., & Milheira, R. G. Ecossistemas Aquáticos do sul do Brasil: Contexto ambiental, histórico e desafios para a conservação. In M. Gonçalves, V. A. G. Bastazini, C. Andretti, L. E. Lanés, & M. Volcan (Eds.), Ecologia e conservação de ecossistemas aquáticos do sul do Brasil. Editora USEB, pp.25-35. ISBN: 978-85-89985-39-0.

• Gonçalves, M. S., Pons, P., Bonow, F., Bastazini, V. A. G., Gil-Delgado, J., & Iborra, G. L. A fragmentação afeta a dinâmica das populações do arredio-do-gravatá. In M. Gonçalves, V. A. G. Bastazini, C. Andretti, L. E. Lanés, & M. Volcan (Eds.), Ecologia e conservação de ecossistemas aquáticos do sul do Brasil. Editora USEB, pp.117-125. ISBN: 978-85-89985-39-0.

• Bastazini, V. A. G., Gianuca, A. T., Vizentin-Bugoni, J., Gonçalves, M. S. S., & Dias, R. A. Identificando o potencial de conservação de áreas úmidas usando ferramentas da teoria de redes complexas. In M. Gonçalves, V. A. G. Bastazini, C. Andretti, L. E. Lanés, & M. Volcan (Eds.), Ecologia e conservação de ecossistemas aquáticos do sul do Brasil. Editora USEB, pp.127-137. ISBN: 978-85-89985-39-0.

2023

• Biz, L., Bastazini, V. A. G., Carvalho, F., & Pereira, M. J. R. Network and parasitological analyses reveal latitudinal gradient in bats-ectoparasitic flies interactions across the Neotropic. Ecology and Evolution 13(9): e10527.

2022

• Bastazini, V. A. G., Debastiani, V., Cappelatti, L., Guimarães, P., & Pillar, V. P. The role of evolutionary modes for trait-based cascades in mutualistic networks. Ecological Modelling 470: 109983.

• Galiana, N., Lurgi, M., Bastazini, V. A. G., Bosch, J., Cagnolo, L., Cazelles, K., Claramunt-López, B., Emer, C., Fortin, M., Grass, I., Hernández-Castellano, C., Jauker, F., Leroux, S. J., McCann, K., McLeod, A. M., Montoya, D., Mulder, C., Osorio-Canadas, S., Reverté, S., Rodrigo, A., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Traveset, A., Valverde, S., Vázquez, D. P., Wood, S. A., Gravel, D., Roslin, T., Thuiller, W., & Montoya, J. M. Ecological network complexity scales with area. Nature Ecology and Evolution 6: 307–314.

• Bergamin, R. S., Ascensão, F., Capinha, C., Bastazini, V. A. G., Andrade, B. O., Boldrini, I. I., Lezama, F., Altesor, A., Perelman, S., & Overbeck, G. E. Native and alien grassland diversity respond differently to environmental and anthropogenic drivers across spatial scales. Journal of Vegetation Science 33(3): e13133.

• Gonçalves, L. O., Kindel, A., Bastazini, V. A. G., & Teixeira, F. Z. Mainstreaming ecological connectivity in road environmental impact assessments: A long way to go. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 40(6): 475-480.

2021

• Debastiani, V., Bastazini, V. A. G., & Pillar, V. P. Phylogenetic uncertainty and the inference of patterns in community ecology and comparative studies. Oecologia 196: 633–647.

• Debastiani, V., Bastazini, V. A. G., & Pillar, V. P. Using phylogenetic information to impute missing functional trait values in ecological databases. Ecological Informatics 63: 101315.

• Bastazini, V. A. G., Galiana, N., Hillebrandt, H., Estiartes, M., Ogayas, R., Peñuelas, J., Sommer, U., & Montoya, J. M. The impact of climate warming on species diversity across scales: Lessons from experimental meta-ecosystems. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30(7): 1545-1554.

2020

• Dias, R. A., Bastazini, V. A. G., Kock, B., Bonow, F. C., Sanyvan, M. S., & Gianuca, A. T. Species richness and patterns of overdispersion, clustering and randomness shape phylogenetic and functional diversity-area relationships in habitat islands. Journal of Biogeography 47(8): 1638-1648.

• Vizentin-Bugoni, J., Debastiani, V. J., Bastazini, V. A. G., Maruyama, P. K., & Sperry, J. H. Including rewiring in the estimation of the robustness of mutualistic networks. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11(1): 106-116.

• Nagy-Reis, M. B., […], Bastazini, V. A. G., et al. NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a dataset of occurrence of carnivores in the Neotropics. Ecology 101(11): e03128.

• Rosas, C., […], Bastazini, V. A. G., et al. NEOTROPICAL ALIEN MAMMALS: a dataset of occurrence and abundance of alien mammals in the Neotropics. Ecology 101(11): e03115.

2019

• Bastazini, V. A. G., Debastiani, V., Azambuja, B., Guimarães, P., & Pillar, V. Loss of generalist plant species and functional diversity decreases the robustness of a seed dispersal network. Environmental Conservation 46(1): 52-58.

• Santos, P., […], Bastazini, V. A. G., et al. NEOTROPICAL XENARTHRANS: a data set of occurrence of xenarthran species in the Neotropics. Ecology 100(7): e02663.

2018

• Casas, G., Bastazini, V. A. G., Debastiani, V. J., & Pillar, V. D. P. Assessing sampling sufficiency of network metrics using bootstrap. Ecological Complexity 36: 268-275.

• Gonçalves, L. O., Alvares, D. J., Teixeira, F. Z., Schuck, G., Coelho, I. P., Esperandio, I. B., Anza, J., Beduschi, J., Bastazini, V. A. G., & Kindel, A. Reptile road-kills in Southern Brazil: Composition, hot moments and hotspots. Science of the Total Environment 615: 1438-1445.

• Garcias, F. M., Stolz, J., Fernández, G. P., Kubiak, B. B., Bastazini, V. A. G., & Freitas, T. R. O. Environmental predictors of demography in the tuco-tuco of the dunes (Ctenomys flamarioni). Mastozoología Neotropical 25(2): 293-304.

2017

• Bastazini, V. A. G., Abreu, P. M., Azambujo, B., Casas, G., Debastiani, V., Guimarães Jr, P. R., & Pillar, V. P. Untangling the tangled bank: A novel method for partitioning the effects of phylogenies and traits on ecological networks. Evolutionary Biology 44: 312–324.

• Dias, R. D., Gianuca, A., Vizentin-Bugoni, J., Bencke, G. A., & Bastazini, V. A. G. Livestock disturbance in southern Brazilian grasslands influences avian species diversity via turnover. Biodiversity and Conservation 26: 2473–2490.

• Bergamin, R. S., Bastazini, V. A. G., Vélez-Martin, E., Debastiani, V., Zanini, K. J., Loyola, R., & Müller, S. C. Linking beta diversity patterns to protected areas: Lessons from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Biodiversity & Conservation 26: 1557–1568.

2016

• Hofmann, G. S., Coelho, I. P., Bastazini, V. A. G., Cordeiro, J. L. P., & Oliveira, L. F. B. Implications of climatic seasonality on activity patterns and resource use by sympatric peccaries in northern Pantanal. International Journal of Biometeorology 60: 421-433.

2015

• Lefcheck, J., Bastazini, V. A. G., & Griffin, J. N. Choosing and using traits in functional diversity research. Environmental Conservation 42: 104-107.

• Carlucci, M. B., Bastazini, V. A. G., Hofmann, G. S., Macedo, J. H., Iob, G., Duarte, L. D. S., Hartz, S. M., & Müller, S. C. Taxonomic and functional diversity of woody plant communities on opposing slopes of inselbergs in southern Brazil. Plant Ecology and Diversity 8: 187-197.

2014

• Duarte, L. S., Both, C., Carlucci, M., Debastiani, V., Cappelatti, L., Seger, G., Salengue, E., Bastazini, V. A. G., Gonçalves, L. O., Brum, F. T., & Bernardo-Silva, J. Climate effects on amphibian distribution depend on phylogenetic scale and biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography 23: 213-222.

• Dias, R. A., Gianuca, A. T., & Bastazini, V. A. G. Bird-habitat associations in coastal rangelands of southern Brazil. Iheringia - Série Zoologia 104: 200-208.

2013

• Gianuca, A. T., Bastazini, V. A. G., Dias, R. A., & Hernández, M. Independent and shared effects of environmental features and space driving avian community beta-diversity across a coastal gradient in southern Brazil. Austral Ecology 38: 864–873.

• Dias, R. A., Bastazini, V. A. G., Gonçalves, M. S. S., Bonow, F. C., & Müller, S. Shifts in composition of avian communities related to temperate-grassland afforestation in southeastern South America. Iheringia - Série Zoologia 103: 12-19.

• Sousa, K. S., Bastazini, V. A. G., & Colares, E. P. Feeding ecology of Lontra longicaudis in the lower Arroio Grande, southernmost Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 85: 285-294.

• Hoffman, G. S., Bastazini, V. A. G., Coelho, I. P., & Oliveira, L. F. B. Fauna da Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural SESC Pantanal: uma perspectiva através de armadilhas fotográficas. Editora SESC, 55p. ISBN: 978-85-89336-99-4.

2012

• Kasper, C. B., Bastazini, V. A. G., Soares, J. B. G., & Freitas, T. R. O. Abundance of Conepatus chinga (Carnivora: Mephitidae) and other medium-sized mammals in grasslands of southern Brazil. Iheringia - Série Zoologia 102: 303-310.

2009

• Dias, R. A., Gonçalves, M. S. S., & Bastazini, V. A. G. First breeding record of the bay-capped wren-spinetail (Spartonoica maluroides) in Brazil, with nest and nestling descriptions and nesting behavior notes. Iheringia - Série Zoologia 99: 449-455.

2008

• Kasper, C. B., Bastazini, V. A. G., Salvi, J., & Grillo, H. C. Z. Trophic ecology and the use of shelters and latrines by the Neotropical otter (Lontra longicaudis) in the Taquari Valley, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Iheringia - Série Zoologia 98: 1-6.

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