Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T01:36:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-01-01; The genus Lepronyssoides Fonseca comprises four Neotropical species associated mainly with rodents. One of these species, L. pereirai (Fonseca), has been recorded parasitizing rodents and marsupials in several states of the north, northeast, and central-west regions of Brazil. This study is based on sam...
Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T02:40:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-01-01; The effects of habitat fragmentation on different taxa and ecosystems are subject to intense debate, and disentangling them is of utmost importance to support conservation and management strategies. We evaluated the importance of landscape composition and configuration, and spatial heterogeneity to expl...
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES; Through an extensive sampling effort, I investigated the relationships of ectoparasites (Ixodidae, Mesostigmata, Phthiraptera and Siphonaptera) with small mammals in remnants of savanna in central-western Brazil, addressing questions relating to species diversity, population dynamics, specificity in host-parasite relationship, and the importan...
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico; The small-mammal community structure of two conservation unit (CUs), Taim Ecological Station (TES) and Espinilho State Park (ESP), of the Pampa biome in southern Brazil, was investigated and compared regarding species richness, composition and abundance. Additionally, a Deciduous forest area was compared with those ones. For this purpose, ten transe...