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Expediciones, naufragios y confines

open access: yesCuadernos Literarios, 2009
En esta entrevista a Paul Firbas, realizada por Rodrí­guez Mansilla, el autor aclara el panorama sobre una literatura de viajes en Hispanoamérica colonial. Al mismo tiempo, se concentrará tanto en sus temas, sus espacios principales como en sus autores.
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Harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) as Overlooked Predators of Anurans in the Neotropics

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 4, April 2026.
This study reports novel field observations of harvestmen (Opiliones: Cranaidae) preying on live frogs across multiple Neotropical localities, documenting active capture and consumption of anurans by these arachnids. Our findings expand the known trophic role of harvestmen as opportunistic vertebrate predators and highlight the need to consider ...
Esteban Calvache   +11 more
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Foxes as pets: Case study of the Fuegian Dog and its relationship to extinct Indigenous cultures

open access: yesJournal of Zoology, Volume 327, Issue 1, Page 5-18, September 2025.
This is a rare glimpse into the historical past of the zoologically mysterious Fuegian Dog that lived with early Holocene Indigenous groups on the island of Tierra del Fuego. Records of the animal's appearance and behavior kept by early explorers, artists and scientists who travelled to the tip of South America, plus the genetics and archaeological ...
W. L. Franklin
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BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 34, Issue 5, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The updated version expands version 1.0 of the database by doubling the number of studies and includes substantial additional curation to the taxonomic ...
Maria Dornelas   +484 more
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Beyond 4 × 4: Paramotoring a novel approach to accelerate plant exploration in challenging environments

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 87-104, January 2025.
Addressing the burning environmental crisis, we explore how the ‘extreme sport’ of paramotoring can enhance and accelerate scientific exploration with minimal environmental impact compared to off‐road vehicles. Our study demonstrates the scientific potential of paramotoring to access fragile desert ecosystems and investigate unrecorded habitats and ...
Justin Moat   +13 more
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Expediciones, recolecciones y estudios de Lepidopterología en la isla de Bioko (Guinea Ecuatorial) (Insecta: Lepidoptera)

open access: yesSHILAP, 2016
El presente trabajo recoge de manera cronológica las principales expediciones y recolecciones entomológicas acaecidas en la isla de Fernando Poo (hoy isla de Bioko).
I. Martín
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Traducciones, retraducciones y retrotraducciones de las crónicas italianas de Da Recco y Cadamosto (sobre el redescubrimiento de las Islas Canarias)

open access: yesHermeneus, 2023
En los siglos XIV y XV, Portugal emprendió expediciones exploratorias por el Atlántico, que pasaron por las Islas Canarias. En esas expediciones participaron, entre otros, dos marineros italianos, Niccoloso da Recco y Alvise Cadamosto, quienes redactaron
Gisela Marcelo Wirnitzer
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Determining the legality of newly described CITES‐listed species in the horticulture trade of tropical pitcher plants (Nepenthes)

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 38, Issue 5, October 2024.
Abstract Due diligence is a fundamental component of ensuring a sustainable and legal wildlife trade that is also supportive of the livelihoods and businesses that depend on the trade. This is particularly true with species listed on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) that are considered threatened or may become ...
Janine E. Robinson, David L. Roberts
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Expediciones Humboldt. San Francisco - Cundinamarca

open access: yes, 2017
Este informe presenta los resultados de la caracterización biológica de uno de los últimos grandes corredores ecológicos del territorio CAR, ubicado en el margen occidental del altiplano cundiboyacense. Este corredor, también conocido como el Espcarpe, incluye áreas prioritarias para la conservación de bosques alto andinos y páramos de la provincia de ...
Córdoba, Diego   +14 more
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La fascinación europea con el Perú y expediciones al Mar del Sur en el siglo XVII

open access: yesRevista de Indias, 1988
Estudiando los diarios de a bordo de las varias expediciones y las declaraciones de sus tripulantes ante las autoridades peruanas podemos interpretar los distintos factores que crearon la fascinación tentadora que atraía empresas marítimas francesas ...
Peter T. Bradley
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