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Three new species of terrestrial isopods (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea) from Brazilian caves
NaupliusA second amphibian species of terrestrial isopods in the genusXangoniscus Campos-Filho, Araujo & Taiti, 2014 and two new species of Trichorhina Budde-Lund, 1908 are described from the Bambuí karst area in the state of Minas Gerais.
Ivanklin Soares Campos-Filho +2 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Tiny, leafless fairy lanterns are easily overlooked on the forest floor. Thismia abei, endemic to Japan, persists in small, unstable populations and is listed nationally as Critically Endangered. Our recent work has revealed another, less obvious form of obscurity.
Kenji Suetsugu +2 more
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Diderma albo-columella (Myxomycetes), a new species in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
RodriguésiaA new species of Diderma (Physarales, Didymiaceae) was recorded in the Mata Estrela Private Nature Reserve, Rio Grande do Norte state. It is characterized by sessile sporangia, white globose columella, capillitium irradiating from the peridium, forming ...
Andrea Carla Caldas Bezerra +1 more
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Retrovirus Infections and Brazilian Wild Felids
Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Pathology, 2008 Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) and Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) are two retroviruses that are deadly to the domestic cat (Felis catus) and important to the conservation of the threatened wild felids worldwide.
Claudia Filoni +3 more
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Spring diet of the neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax olivaceus) in the Bahía Blanca estuary, Buenos Aires, Argentina [PDF]
, 2009 Se describe la dieta del Biguá (Phalacrocorax olivaceus) en un ambiente marino–costero durante la primavera. Pese a ser una especie ampliamente distribuida en Argentina, sus hábitos tróficos han sido escasamente estudiados y, paradójicamente, fue ...
Obed, Yamila S. +3 more
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The most threatened plants receive the least scientific attention
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Plants sustain all life, providing the energetic and structural basis of ecosystems, but they face a growing risk of extinction. Reversing this decline requires an understanding of how scientific knowledge is distributed among species, and identification of the biases and gaps that hinder effective responses to the threats they face. However, we reveal
Renon S. Andrade +3 more
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Management and incipient domestication of Chamaedorea tepejilote in agroforestry systems in Mexico
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Native wild plants are key elements in addressing global biodiversity loss and supporting sustainable food systems. We investigated how rural communities in Mexico manage Chamaedorea tepejilote, a wild palm with edible male inflorescences, by combining ethnobotanical, genetic, morphological and ecological approaches.
Viviana Andrade +7 more
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Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.Brazil's Cerrado valley wetlands—swamp savanna and gallery forest—are highly important for the biome's water cycle and carbon storage and are susceptible to degradation from the impacts of land use expansion and the climate crisis. In support of their detailed monitoring and assessment, we developed and tested a transferable mapping approach that ...
Felix Beer +6 more
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DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES OF KLEIDOTOMA WESTWOOD (HYMENOPTERA: FIGITIDAE) FROM INDIA ALONG WITH A LIST OF SPECIES [PDF]
, 2013 The genus Kleidotoma is reported for the first time from India with Kleidotoma sikkimensis sp. nov. Akhtar. The new species is described from Sikkim, India and distinguished from K. kraussi Yoshimoto through malar space about 0.32x height of eye, scape 1.
KHAN, FARMANUR RAHMAN +3 more
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