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Leopardus pajeros (Desmarest, 1816) (Carnivora: Felidae) in Northern Peru: first record for the department of Piura, at the Mangroves San Pedro de Vice, and geographic extention [PDF]

open access: yesCheck List, 2013
On October 1st, 2006, at the Mangroves San Pedro de Vice –MSPV (Sechura, Piura - Peru) the first visual record of Leopardus pajeros was made in the southern part of the area (05°31’09” S, 80°53’28” W).
Álvaro García-Olaechea   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Typifications in neotropical Sapotaceae [PDF]

open access: yesPhytoKeys, 2020
Sapotaceae is historically known as having a tricky and challenging taxonomy due to tangled morphologic heterogeneity. Consequently, this resulted in a large number of described genera and binomials. After Pennington’s Flora Neotropica work, several of those nomenclature issues were resolved.
Anderson Alves-Araújo   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Vegetation cover and seasonality as indicators for selection of forage resources by local agro-pastoralists in the Brazilian semiarid region

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Local knowledge and uses of forage resources are highly dynamic, and can be mediated by multiple factors, such as seasonality, floristic diversity and the morphophysiological characteristics of plants.
Sonaly Silva da Cunha   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Denunciafauna – A social media campaign to evaluate wildlife crime and law enforcement in Peru

open access: yesJournal of Political Ecology, 2021
Wildlife crime poses a major threat to wild fauna globally. International treaties and laws seldom provide effective solutions. The campaign 'Denuncia Pública General de Casos de Fauna Silvestre en Cautiverio' (General Public Complaint Against Captive ...
Noga Shanee, Sam Shanee
doaj   +2 more sources

Public Health Implications of Invasive Plants: A Scientometric Study

open access: yesPlants, 2023
Movements of organisms through distinct places can change the dynamics of ecological interactions and make the habitat conducive to the spread of diseases.
Camila Denóbile   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

NEOTROPICAL XENARTHRANS: a data set of occurrence of xenarthran species in the Neotropics [PDF]

open access: yesEcology, 2019
AbstractXenarthrans—anteaters, sloths, and armadillos—have essential functions for ecosystem maintenance, such as insect control and nutrient cycling, playing key roles as ecosystem engineers. Because of habitat loss and fragmentation, hunting pressure, and conflicts with domestic dogs, these species have been threatened locally, regionally, or even ...
Paloma Marques Santos   +446 more
openaire   +7 more sources

Viuria Grishin, 2019 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae): taxonomy, description of two new species, and remarks on the morphology of secondary sexual organs of males

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Taxonomy, 2023
The taxonomy of the Neotropical Carcharodini genus Viuria Grishin, 2019 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae) is presented. Two new species are described: Viuria inanna sp. nov.
Ricardo Russo Siewert   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stone tools differences across three capuchin monkey populations: food’s physical properties, ecology, and culture

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Robust capuchin monkeys (Sapajus) are known for processing mechanically challenging foods, having morphological adaptations to do so. However, several populations go beyond body limitations by using stone tools to expand their food range.
Tiago Falótico   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exceptionally preserved ‘skin’ in an Early Cretaceous fish from Colombia [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2020
Studies of soft tissue, cells and original biomolecular constituents preserved in fossil vertebrates have increased greatly in recent years. Here we report preservation of ‘skin’ with chemical and molecular characterization from a three-dimensionally ...
Andrés Alfonso-Rojas   +1 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Distribution survey, ecological niche modelling and conservation assessment of the Peruvian Night Monkey: Aotus Miconax Thomas, 1927 (Mammalia: Primates: Aotidae) in north-eastern Peru, with notes on the distributions of Aotus spp. Gray, 1870

open access: yesJournal of Threatened Taxa, 2015
Aotus miconax is endemic to Peru and remains one of the least studied of all Neotropical primate taxa.  It has an altitudinally restricted distribution and is limited to areas of premontane and montane cloud forest in the countries north.
Sam Shanee   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

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