Non-volant mammals in a protected area on the Central Andes of Colombia: new records for the Caldas department and the Chinchiná River basin [PDF]
, 2015 The Chinchiná River basin is located on the western slope of the Colombian Central Andes. This basin provides ecosystem services such as water provision for >500,000 people, but has suffered considerable ecosystem degradation, and the information
Andrés Ramírez-Mejía +1 more
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, 1993 Published as part of Alfred L. Gardner, 1993, Order Xenarthra, pp. 63-68 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 64-65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo ...
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Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2012 We review historic occurrences in Mexico of one of the least known Xenarthra of Mesoamerica - the northern naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous centralis Miller, 1899).
Arturo González-Zamora +9 more
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Research on armadillos: A review and prospectus [PDF]
, 2019 A detailed analysis of 1,039 scientific studies of extant armadillos (Xenarthra: Cingulata, Dasypodidae) published in the last 25 years (1989-2013) revealed substantial biases in coverage, including taxonomically, the locales where field studies were ...
Abba, Agustín Manuel +3 more
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Inventario preliminar y uso de mamíferos silvestres por comunidades campesinas del sector oriental del cerro Murrucucú, municipio de Tierralta, Córdoba, Colombia [PDF]
, 2014 The knowledge regarding the use of wild mammals in the upper part of the department of Córdoba is deficient, counting only on the work of RaceroCasarrubia where they mention the patterns and perceptions of wildlife use by indigenous communities of the ...
González-Maya, José F. +1 more
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Isotopic ordering in eggshells reflects body temperatures and suggests differing thermophysiology in two Cretaceous dinosaurs [PDF]
, 2015 Our understanding of the evolutionary transitions leading to the modern endothermic state of birds and mammals is incomplete, partly because tools available to study the thermophysiology of extinct vertebrates are limited.
Cerling, Thure E. +13 more
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VALORACIÓN DEl USO DE LA FAUNA SILVESTRE EN EL MUNICIPIO DE ALCALÁ, VALLE DEL CAUCA [PDF]
, 2006 En un intento por contribuir con los procesos de gestión de la fauna silvestre en el municipio de Alcalá y validar los conocimientos tradicionales, se valoró este recurso a través de la investigación etnográfica.
ALDANA, NARLI JOHANA +3 more
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Pervasive cranial allometry at different anatomical scales and variational levels in extant armadillos [PDF]
Allometry, i.e., morphological variation correlated with size, is a major pattern in organismal evolution. Since size varies both within and among species, allometry occurs at different variational levels.
Amson, Eli +7 more
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The accelerating influence of humans on mammalian macroecological patterns over the late Quaternary [PDF]
, 2019 The transition of hominins to a largely meat-based diet ~1.8 million years ago led to the exploitation of other mammals for food and resources. As hominins, particularly archaic and modern humans, became increasingly abundant and dispersed across the ...
Elliott Smith, Rosemary E. +4 more
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