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6. Scott, E.V., Almeida, R.J., McKlin, S., Lippert, A. L., Clary, J., Vargas, C., Hidell, W., Wagymar, S., and K.G. Smith. 2024. Accepted. Habitat loss and simplification lower arthropod richness but not diversity. Ecosphere.

5. Almeida, R.J., Mazza, A.N., and J.L. Lockwood. 2024. Does fortune follow function? Exploring how consumer preferences drive the functional trait composition of the global songbird trade. People and Nature. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10652

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