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Operation Wallacea have been running research expeditions since 1995, all these research documents originate directly from our research sites around the world.

Documents found: 247

2025 Publication: The first checklist of fungi known for Honduras: revealing taxonomic, geographical, and functional trends
Year: 2025
Interest: Terrestrial, Botany & Community Ecology
Location: Honduras

Mortier L, Vanhoomissen R, Davies L, Kirk PM, Maciá-Vicente JG, Piepenbring M, Haelewaters D (2025) The first checklist of fungi known for Honduras: revealing taxonomic, geographical, and functional trends. MycoKeys 126: 93-117.

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2025 Publication: Status and Trends of Caribbean Coral Reefs: 1970-2024
Year: 2025
Interest: Marine, Community Ecology, Conservation Management & Marine Ecology
Location: Honduras

Wicquart J, Mathon L, Petit A, Rivera-Sosa A, McField M (Eds.). 2025. Status and Trends of Caribbean Coral Reefs: 1970 – 2024. Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) and International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI).

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2025 Publication: Novel insights on Psalmopoeinae Samm & Schmidt, 2010 (Araneae: Theraphosidae): new species, taxonomic restorations, and reversal of four erroneous synonymies
Year: 2025
Interest: Terrestrial, Community Ecology & Invertebrates
Location: Honduras

Peñaherrera-R P, León-E RJ, Guerrero-Campoverde A, Falcón-Reibán JM, Fajardo-Torres JD, Picón-Rentería P, Gabriel R, Sherwood D, Cisneros-Heredia DF. 2025. Novel insights on Psalmopoeinae Samm & Schmidt, 2010 (Araneae: Theraphosidae): new species, taxonomic restorations, and reversal of four erroneous synonymies. Arachnology 20: 491-508.

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2025 Publication: Testing the thermal physiology, habitat and competition hypotheses for elevational range limits in four tropical songbirds
Year: 2025
Interest: Birds & Community Ecology
Location: Honduras

Jones SEI, Freeman BG, Tobias JA, Portugal SJ. 2025. Testing the thermal physiology, habitat and competition hypotheses for elevational range limits in four tropical songbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.29220251953

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2025 Publication: Quantifying the links between behavioural and ecological variables influencing marine cleaning mutualisms
Year: 2025
Interest: Marine, Behaviour & Fisheries
Location: Honduras

Gunn RL, Michiels NK (2025) Quantifying the links between behavioural and ecological variables influencing marine cleaning mutualisms. Aquatic Biology 34: 27-40.

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2025 Publication: Deeper Caribbean reef fish communities show greater taxonomic and functional change in dominance structure over a nine-year period
Year: 2025
Interest: Marine, Community Ecology & Fisheries
Location: Honduras

Boon JS, Keith SA, Exton DA, Gress E, Andradi-Brown DA, Field R. 2025. Deeper Caribbean reef fish communities show greater taxonomic and functional change in dominance structure over a nine-year period. Coral Reefs.

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2025 Publication: Familiarity mediated by body size predicts intraspecific aggression in farming damselfishes
Year: 2025
Interest: Marine, Behaviour & Fisheries
Location: Honduras

Sheppard CE, Boström-Einarsson L, Exton DA, Williams GJ, Keith SA. 2025. Familiarity mediated by body size predicts intraspecific aggression in farming damselfishes. Familiarity mediated by body size predicts intraspecific aggression in farming damselfishes.Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 79, 89.

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2025 Publication: Cruz’s Long-Tailed Shrew Sorex cruzi Andino-Madrid, Mérida Colindres, Pérez-Consuegra, & Matson, 2020
Year: 2025
Interest: Terrestrial, Community Ecology & Mammals
Location: Honduras

Andino Madrid AJ & Mérida JE. 2025. Cruz’s Long-Tailed Shrew Sorex cruzi Andino-Madrid, Mérida Colindres, Pérez-Consuegra, & Matson, 2020. In: Guevara L, León-Tapia MA (Eds) Mammals of Middle and South America: Eulipotyphla. Springer: London.

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2025 Publication: BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series
Year: 2025
Interest: Bats, Terrestrial, Birds & Community Ecology
Location: Honduras

Dorneles M, Antao LH, Bates AE, Brambilla V. et al. 2025. BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34: e70003.

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2025 Publication: Bias in neotropical and reef biodiversity monitoring programs may prevent detecting changes in species diversity through time
Year: 2025
Interest: Marine, Terrestrial & Community Ecology
Location: Honduras

Abbad EL, Cronemberger de Faria C, Bergallo HG, de Sales Dambros C. (2025) Bias in neotropical and reef biodiversity monitoring programs may prevent detecting changes in species diversity through time. Biological Conservation 303: 111031.

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2025 Publication: Knowledge gaps explored for Laboulbeniomycetes, a clade of understudied microfungi, including a new shortfall related to a lack of taxonomic expertise
Year: 2025
Interest: Terrestrial, Botany & Conservation Management
Location: Honduras

Cazabonne J, Martin TE, Matthews TJ, Quandt CA,Wayman JP, Haelewaters D. 2025. Preprint – Knowledge gaps explored for Laboulbeniomycetes, a clade of understudied microfungi, including a new shortfall related to a lack of taxonomic expertise. Authorea.

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2025 Publication: Unifying Coral Reef States Through Space and Time Reveals a Changing Ecosystem
Year: 2025
Interest: Marine, Community Ecology & Marine Ecology
Location: Honduras

Brandl SJ, Carlot J, Stuart-Smith RD, Keith SA, Graham NAJ, Edgar GJ, Wicquart J, Wilson SK, Karkarey R, Donovan MK, Arias-Gonzalez JE, Arthur R, Bigot L, Exton DA, Goetze J, Hoey AS, Holmes T, Maréchal J-P, Mouillot D, Ross CL, Wickel J, Adjeroud M, Parravicini V. 2024. Unifying Coral Reef States Through Space and Time Reveals a Changing Ecosystem. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33: e13926.

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2025 Publication: Mammal species occupancy in a Honduran cloud forest: a pre- and post-COVID-19 comparison.
Year: 2025
Interest: Terrestrial, Conservation Management & Mammals
Location: Honduras

Samson-McKenna DC, Martin TE, Hoskins HMJ, Van de Kerk M (2025) Mammal species occupancy in a Honduran cloud forest: a pre- and post-COVID-19 comparison. Journal of Nature Conservation 84: 126819.

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2024 Publication: Unraveling demographic patterns in tropical birds across an elevational gradient
Year: 2024
Interest: Terrestrial, Birds & Community Ecology
Location: Honduras

Neate-Clegg MHC, Saracco JF, Rodríguez-Vásquez F, Jones SEI. 2024. Unraveling demographic patterns in tropical birds across an elevational gradient. Ornithological Applications. Early View version: duae063

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2024 Publication: Seven New Species of Besleria (Gesneriaceae) from the Mesoamerican Flora
Year: 2024
Interest: Terrestrial & Botany
Location: Honduras

Barrie FR,Skog LE. 2024. Seven New Species of Besleria (Gesneriaceae) from the Mesoamerican Flora. Novon 32: 162-175.

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2024 Publication: Distress calls of Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush Catharus mexicanus and Chestnut-capped Brushfinch Arremon brunneinucha
Year: 2024
Interest: Terrestrial, Behaviour & Birds
Location: Honduras

Zapata D & Jones SEI (2022) Distress calls of Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush Catharus mexicanus and Chestnut-capped Brushfinch Arremon brunneinucha. Cotinga 44: 19-23.

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2024 Publication: Recent fieldwork and fungarium studies double known diversity of Chlorosplenium and improve understanding of species distributions
Year: 2024
Interest: Terrestrial, Botany & Genetics
Location: Honduras

Stallman JK, Johnston PR, Lickey EB, Marlin M, Melie T, Quandt CA. Aime MC, Haelewaters D. 2024. Recent fieldwork and fungarium studies double known diversity of Chlorosplenium and improve understanding of species distributions. Mycologia. Early view version.

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2024 Publication: Topology Testing and Demographic Modeling Illuminate a Novel Speciation Pathway in the Greater Caribbean Sea Following the Formation of the Isthmus of Panama
Year: 2024
Interest: Marine, Community Ecology, Genetics & Invertebrates
Location: Honduras

Titus BM, Gibbs HL, Simões N, Daly M. 2024. Topology Testing and Demographic Modeling Illuminate a Novel Speciation Pathway in the Greater Caribbean Sea Following the Formation of the Isthmus of Panama. Systematic Biology: syae045.

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2024 Publication: The amphibians and reptiles of Cusuco National Park, Northwest Honduras: updates from a long-term conservation programme
Year: 2024
Interest: Terrestrial, Community Ecology & Herpetofauna
Location: Honduras

Laking AE, Solís JM, Brown T, Maddock ST, Burdekin O, Taylor P, Lonsdale G, Green SEW, Martin TE, Galdamez JR, Kolby JE, Erens J, Jocque M (2024) The amphibians and reptiles of Cusuco National Park, Northwest Honduras: updates from a long-term conservation programme. Neotropical Biodiversity and Conservation 19: 37-62.

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2024 Publication: Ants in the clouds: A preliminary checklist of the ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) fauna of a Honduran cloud forest ecosystem, featuring a key to country genera
Year: 2024
Interest: Terrestrial, Community Ecology & Invertebrates
Location: Honduras

De Wint FC, Oorts D, Branstetter MG, De Graaf D, Dekoninck W, Jocque M, Martin TE, Sudworth J, Van Osselaer R, Hamer MT. 2024. Ants in the clouds: A preliminary checklist of the ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) fauna of a Honduran cloud forest ecosystem, featuring a key to country genera. Neotropical Biology and Conservation 19: 107-135.

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