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Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research
Carvalho, Raquel L.; Resende, Angelica F.; Barlow, Jos; França, Filipe M.; Moura, Mario R.; Maciel, Rafaella; Alves-Martins, Fernanda; Shutt, JackBiodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain underst...
Environmental heterogeneity and sampling relevance areas in an Atlantic forest ...
Carvalho, Carolina da Silva; Martello, Felipe; Galetti, Mauro [UNESP]; Pinto, Fernando; Francisco, Mercival Roberto; Silveira, Luis FábioMade available in DSpace on 2022-05-01T05:29:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-07-01; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); The knowledge of the diversity, richness, and distribution of tropical organisms are poorly understood, and a plethora of new species are still being described even among ...
Power line electrocution as an overlooked threat to Lear's Macaw (Anodorhynchus...
Biasotto, Larissa D.; Pacífico, Erica C.; Paschotto, Fernanda R.; Filadelfo, Thiago; Couto, Maíla B.; Sousa, Antonio Emanuel B. A.; Mantovani, PlinioElectrocution can pose a serious threat to large birds, particularly threatened species with low population sizes. However, few studies have focused on the impacts of electrocution on large parrots such as the Endangered Lear's Macaw Anodorhynchus leari, endemic to the Brazilian Caatinga. Here, we compile and describe 31 electrocution events, as reported by villagers, indicating that electrocution may be an imp...