The biosonar of the boto: evidence of differences among species of river dolphins (Inia spp.) from the Amazon [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Echolocation clicks can reflect the anatomy of the vocalizing animal, enabling the distinction of species. River dolphins from the family Iniidae are formally represented by one species and two subspecies (Inia geoffrensis geoffrensis and I.
Jéssica F. Melo +3 more
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Extrafloral Nectary-Bearing Plants Recover Ant Association Benefits Faster and More Effectively after Frost-Fire Events Than Frost [PDF]
Plants, 2023 The Cerrado confronts threats such as fire and frost due to natural or human-induced factors. These disturbances trigger attribute changes that impact biodiversity.
Gabriela Fraga Porto +2 more
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Pest Control Potential of Social Wasps in Small Farms and Urban Gardens [PDF]
Insects, 2019 In environments undergoing constant transformation due to human action, such as deforestation and urbanization, the emergence of pests has become a challenge for agriculture and human welfare.
Fábio Prezoto +4 more
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From species descriptions to diversity patterns: the validation of taxonomic data as a keystone for ant diversity studies reproducibility and accuracy [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Research findings in natural sciences need to be comparable and reproducible to effectively improve our understanding of ecological and behavioural patterns.
Rodrigo M. Feitosa +38 more
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Acta Biológica Catarinense, 2018 O conhecimento sobre o campo da ecologia comportamental traz diversos benefícios para a carreira acadêmica e profissional dos estudantes de Biologia. Contudo muitos deles têm dificuldade de acessar livros e artigos introdutórios sobre o tema. Neste trabalho propôs-se criar um texto introdutório com aspectos gerais da ecologia comportamental e avaliar a
Emerson Campos Barbosa Júnior +1 more
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Ecologia Comportamental e Conservação: Uma Fraca Conexão?
Natureza A Conservacao, 2011 Lorenzo R S Zanette
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ECOLOGIA COMPORTAMENTAL EVOLUTIVA APLICADA A PEIXES DE RIACHO
Oecologia Australis, 2021 Direct field observation constitutes an important source of information on life history and behavior of stream fish. Unfortunately, information gathered from direct field observations are often limited and thus may fail to provide robust testing for the causation of biological phenomena.
Tiago Henrique da Silva Pires +1 more
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The social wasp community (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) and new distribution record of Polybia ruficeps in an area of Caatinga Biome, northeastern Brazil [PDF]
Check List, 2015 Social wasps are broadly distributed in Brazil, and their distribution is closely related to local plant composition. However, only a few studies on the diversity of these insects have been carried out in northeastern Brazil, and in Caatinga Biome the ...
André Melo +4 more
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A Review on Fish Sensory Systems and Amazon Water Types With Implications to Biodiversity
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The Amazon has the highest richness of freshwater organisms in the world, which has led to a multitude of hypotheses on the mechanisms that generated this biodiversity.
Elio de Almeida Borghezan +5 more
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Reproductive biology and flower-visitor interactions of two bromeliad species from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest [PDF]
Plant Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Background and aims – The Bromeliaceae family has great importance in the maintenance of neotropical communities. In the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, bromeliads are among the major groups responsible for maintaining the local flora and fauna and ...
Matheus R. e Silva +2 more
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