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Roadkill patterns in Latin American birds and mammals
Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 31, Issue 9, Page 1756-1783, September 2022., 2022 Abstract Aim Roads are a major threat for wildlife, degrading habitat and causing mortality via wildlife–vehicle collisions. In Latin America, the conjunction of high biodiversity and a rapidly expanding road network is reason for concern. We introduce an approach that combines species traits and habitat preferences to describe vulnerability and map ...
Pablo Medrano‐Vizcaíno +6 more
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Guanaco colonisation of Tierra del Fuego Island from mainland Patagonia: Walked, swam, or by canoe?
Geo: Geography and Environment, Volume 9, Issue 2, July‐December 2022., 2022 A geographical and biological puzzle that has perplexed scientists since the late 1800s working in southern South America: why are there so few vertebrates on the island of Tierra del Fuego compared to the adjacent Patagonia mainland, including the absence of the ubiquitous Guanaco (Lama guanicoe), wild camelid of the south? An interdisciplinary search
William L. Franklin
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Dasypus septemcinctus (Cingulata: Dasypodidae) [PDF]
Mammalian Species, 2020 AbstractDasypus septemcinctus Linnaeus, 1758, commonly called the seven-banded armadillo, is the smallest species of the genus Dasypus, with 6–7 movable bands and a flattened dorsal profile of the skull. It has the most southern distribution of the genus, with a latitudinal range from 0º to 39ºS, including Brazil, eastern Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay ...
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Boreas, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 684-697, July 2022., 2022 Here we present the first fossil record of a bone assemblage that could have been accumulated by New World vultures (Cathartidae). The bone remains were found in an archaeological rockshelter called Gruta do Presépio (GPR), located in the tropical rainforest environment of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil, where groups of hunters and gatherers ...
Fernando Ballejo +6 more
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Cabassous centralis(Cingulata: Dasypodidae) [PDF]
Mammalian Species, 2013 Cabassous centralis (northern naked-tailed armadillo) is a small armadillo with a slender tail. The distinctive tail has widely spaced, thin plates that are gray-pink in color. This fossorial armadillo occurs in diverse tropical habitats and has a distributional range from southern Mexico, through Central America, and into northern South America ...
Virginia Hayssen +3 more
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Collared Peccary Wallows are Hubs of Animal Activity and Diversity in a Central American Wet Forest. [PDF]
Ecol EvolCollared peccary wallows are used by a diverse assemblage of vertebrates in a Central American tropical wet forest. Wallows had significantly higher vertebrate activity and diversity compared to surrounding forest. Wallow visitors included 13 amphibian, 2 reptile, 11 bird, and 16 mammal species, engaged in behaviors including reproduction, drinking ...
Eckhoff A +6 more
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, 2021 The Neogene deposits of the Salicas Formation outcrop along the northern area of the Velasco Range. Their levels have provided several remains of mammals, including notoungulates, liptoterns, rodents, and xenarthrans.
Barasoain, Darío Daniel +2 more
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Fig. 1 in Dasypus sabanicola (Cingulata: Dasypodidae)
, 2020 Fig. 1.—An adult of Dasypus sabanicola from Meta, Colombia. Photo by Federico Mosquera-Guerra used with permission.Published as part of Chacón-Pacheco, Julio, Aya-Cuero, Carlos & Anacleto, Teresa Cristina S, 2020, Dasypus sabanicola (Cingulata ...
Chacón-Pacheco, Julio +2 more
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, 2009 Family Dasypodidae Tolypeutes tricinctus (IUCN: VU, Biodiversitas: VU) Aspidodera fasciata Aspidodera raillieti Aspidodera scoleciformis Aspidodera ...
Muniz-Pereira, Luís C. +2 more
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Fig. 3 in Dasypus sabanicola (Cingulata: Dasypodidae)
, 2020 Fig. 3.—Geographic distribution of Dasypus sabanicola (modified from Superina et al. 2014a).Published as part of Chacón-Pacheco, Julio, Aya-Cuero, Carlos & Anacleto, Teresa Cristina S, 2020, Dasypus sabanicola (Cingulata: Dasypodidae), pp.
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