Knowledge gaps hamper understanding the relationship between fragmentation and biodiversity loss: the case of Atlantic Forest fruit-feeding butterflies [PDF]
Background A key challenge for conservation biology in the Neotropics is to understand how deforestation affects biodiversity at various levels of landscape fragmentation.
Thadeu Sobral-Souza +8 more
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Much evidence suggests that Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest were connected through at least three dispersion routes in the past: the Eastern route, the central route, and the Western route.
Arielli Fabrício Machado +5 more
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Paleoamerican diet, migration and morphology in Brazil [PDF]
During the early Holocene two main paleoamerican cultures thrived in Brazil: the Tradição Nordeste in the semi-desertic Sertão and the Tradição Itaparica in the high plains of the Planalto Central.
Eggers, Sabine +3 more
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Expansion of the geographic range of Cyatta abscondita Sosa-Calvo et al., 2013 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) [PDF]
The presence of the recently described fungus-farming ant genus and species Cyatta abscondita is reported in the northwestern region of Misiones Province in Argentina. A single worker of C.
Filloy, Julieta +4 more
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A CONCESSION SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC FORESTS IN “MATA ATLANTICA” DOMINIUM, BRAZIL [PDF]
Political and administrative limitations are real factors for a Management System for National Forest in Brazil, but some actions needs to be achieve. The concession system is economically feasible to create and manage National Forest in Atlantic area ...
Jorge Paladino Corrêa de Lima +1 more
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Abrupt climate changes of the last deglaciation detected in a Western Mediterranean forest record [PDF]
Abrupt changes in Western Mediterranean climate during the last deglaciation (20 to 6 cal ka BP) are detected in marine core MD95-2043 (Alboran Sea) through the investigation of high-resolution pollen data and pollen-based climate reconstructions by the ...
Dormoy, Isabelle +3 more
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ATLANTIC ANTS: a data set of ants in Atlantic Forests of South America [PDF]
AbstractAnts, an ecologically successful and numerically dominant group of animals, play key ecological roles as soil engineers, predators, nutrient recyclers, and regulators of plant growth and reproduction in most terrestrial ecosystems. Further, ants are widely used as bioindicators of the ecological impact of land use.
Silva, Rogério +206 more
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A large terrestrial source of methyl iodide [PDF]
We have identified terrestrial sources of methyl iodide (CH3I) and assessed their importance in its atmospheric budget using a synthesis of field observations.
Blake, DR +5 more
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Range extension of Lonchophylla peracchii (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) to Northeastern Brazil [PDF]
Lonchophylla peracchii was recently described from Rio de Janeiro Atlantic Forest samples previously assigned to either L. bokermanni Sazima, Vizotto & Taddei, 1978 or L. mordax Thomas, 1903.
Daniela Dias +2 more
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CHEMICAL ELEMENTS ANALYSIS OF THE SOIL AT AN URBANIZATION GRADIENT IN THE ATLANTIC FOREST [PDF]
The Atlantic Forest is home to the largest urban centers in Brazil, which modify various aspects of the natural quality of this forest. Soil chemical elements from three different sites in the Atlantic Forest in the state of Rio de Janeiro were analyzed:
Thaís Jorge de Vasconcellos +4 more
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