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Demographic buffering in natural populations: A multi‐level perspective

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
We introduce a multi‐level framework that unites stochastic elasticities with nonlinear selection to test demographic buffering. Applying it across mammals reveals a key insight: ecological robustness to variability often decouples from evolutionary constraint, reshaping how we understand resilience under environmental stochasticity.
Gabriel Silva Santos, Samuel J. L. Gascoigne, André Tavares Corrêa Dias, Maja Kajin, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +4 more
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Sex determination in mythology and history [PDF]

, 2005
The history of ideas on how the sexes became divided spans at least three thousand years. The biblical account of the origin of Eve, and the opinions of the philosophers of classical Greece, have unexpected bearings on present-day ideas.
Mittwoch, U
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Mammal Responses to Habitat Degradation Induced by Cashew Expansion in West Africa

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Relationships between (a) estimated mammal species richness, (b) overall mammal species photographic rate, (c) carnivore photographic rate, (d) insectivore photographic rate, (e) omnivore photographic rate and (f) herbivore photographic rate and the local habitat characteristics as denoted by the scores of the first component of the Principal Component
Daniel Na Mone, Isnaba Nhassé, João Soares, Raquel de Oliveira, Manuel Lopes‐Lima, Luís Palma, Ana Filipa Palmeirim   +6 more
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Non-metric characters in two species of Sotalia (Gray, 1866) (Cetacea, Delphinidae)

Brazilian Journal of Biology
Analyses of non-metric characters of the skull and cervical vertebrae were performed among samples of dolphins of the genus Sotalia from the north, northeast and south Brazilian coast (S.
DC. Fettuccia, VMF. da Silva, PC. Simões-Lopes   +2 more
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Morphology of Guard Hairs in Amazonian Marsupials: Intergeneric Variation, Habitat and Habit Association in a Phylogenetic Framework of the Order Didelphimorphia

Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cuticle and medulla of guard hairs exhibit distinct morphological patterns among mammalian species. To investigate this variability in marsupials from the Brazilian Amazon, we analysed guard hairs from nine Didelphimorphia species and incorporated data from an additional 25 didelphid species.
Matheus M. Bitencourt, Ana Cristina Mendes‐Oliveira, Gleomar F. Maschio, Maria Clara S. Ribeiro, Alexandra M. R. Bezerra   +4 more
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Alpha diversity of marine mammals of the Mexican South Pacific

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2018
Knowledge of the alpha diversity contributes to the determination of conservation priorities by identifying regions with high species richness and/or a large number of endemic, rare, or endangered species.
Francisco Villegas-Zurita, Fátima Castillejos-Moguel, Francisco Benítez-Villalobos, Jorge Urbán-Ramírez   +3 more
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Nuevo registro de un cachalote (Physeter macrocephalus) varado y una revisión de varamientos en las costas de Argentina continental [PDF]

, 2011
Presentamos un nuevo registro de un cachalote, con notas sobre la dieta, la determinación de edad y la presencia de parásitos, junto con una revisión de los varamientos a lo largo de toda la costa continental argentina.
Crespo, Enrique Alberto, Dans, Silvana Laura, Degrati, Mariana, Garcia, Nestor Anibal, Grandi, Maria Florencia, Leonardi, María Soledad, Loizaga de Castro, Rocio, Pedraza, Susana Noemi, Vales, Damián Gustavo   +8 more
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Functional homogenization of terrestrial mammals outside protected areas in the Hengduan Mountains, China

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the crucial role of human impacts on biodiversity loss, many assessments of this loss focus on single metrics, such as species richness, and overlook the multidimensional effects of human activities. Because of its importance to ecosystem functioning, we investigated the functional diversity of medium‐ and large‐sized mammal ...
Xueyou Li, Wenqiang Hu, Kenneth Otieno Onditi, Quan Li, Zhechang Hu, Ru Bai, Yang Liu, Hongjiao Wang, Xuelong Jiang   +8 more
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Geographic risks to functional groups of mammals and birds from habitat loss in Mexico

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a need to quantify the impact of habitat loss due to anthropogenic factors on different aspects of biodiversity, such as functional trait diversity represented by functional groups (FGs). We developed a metric to assess the weighted risk of loss of habitat for 33 FGs of mammals and 36 FGs of birds in Mexico based on potential ...
Fernando Mayani‐Parás, Francisco Botello, Claudia E. Moreno, Griselda Escalona‐Segura, Víctor Sánchez‐Cordero   +4 more
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Historical shifts, geographic biases, and biological constraints shape mammal species discovery

Journal of Systematics and Evolution, EarlyView.
Taxonomic descriptions of mammals have become more robust from 1990 to 2025, with increased specimen sampling, broader comparisons, and more integrative methods. However, disparities remain: tropical and small‐bodied species are less comprehensively described, reflecting ongoing geographic and biological biases.
Matheus de T. Moroti, Jhonny J. M. Guedes, Guilherme M. Missio, Giovana L. Diegues, Alexandra M. R. Bezerra, Mario R. Moura   +5 more
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