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A network of monitoring networks for evaluating biodiversity conservation effec...
Roque, Fabio O.; Uehara-Prado, Márcio; Valente-Neto, Francisco C.; Quintero, Jose Manuel Ochoa; Ribeiro, Kátia Torres; Martíns, Marlúcia BonifácioThe necessity to create national to global-scale biodiversity monitoring systems as part of assessing progress toward biodiversity agendas presents a challenge for signatory countries. This is a brief review of ongoing Brazilian national initiatives that would allow the construction of a general biomonitoring network scheme in protected areas; with additional focus on linking independent monitoring schemes. We ...
Ants in their plants: Pseudomyrmex ants reduce primate, parrot and squirrel pre...
Barnett, Adrian Ashton; Almeida, Thais; Andrade, Richelly; Boyle, Sarah Ann; Lima, Marcelo Gonçalves de; MacLarnon, Ann M.; Ross, CarolineAlthough plant-inhabiting ants are known to act as effective deterrents to a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate herbivores, this has been reported only once before for primates, a group better known for their predation of ants. In the present study, we investigated the effects that colonies of Pseudomyrmex viduus ants living in individual Macrolobium acaciifolium (Fabaceae) trees have on the rates of visita...