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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

Macroinvertebrados bentónicos de ríos de zonas áridas del noroeste argentino

open access: yesEcología Austral, 2018
Una gran parte del noroeste argentino (NOA) está ocupada por zonas áridas vulnerables al avance de las actividades humanas. En este trabajo se caracterizaron los ensambles de macroinvertebrados de los ríos de esas zonas, para lo cual se emplearon ...
Guillermo E. Hankel   +2 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

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

Nota sobre la dieta de la Lechucita Bigotona, Xenoglaux loweryi en Yambrasbamba, Amazonas

open access: yesRevista Peruana de Biología, 2016
En este trabajo se dan a conocer los resultados del análisis de heces de la Lechucita Bigotona (Xenoglaux loweryi), especie endémica de Perú y en peligro de extinción según IUCN, que habita los bosques montanos húmedos de la cordillera Oriental de los ...
Alejandro Alarcón   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Threat Analysis of Forest Fragmentation and Degradation for Peruvian Primates

open access: yesDiversity, 2023
Peru has 55 primate taxa (including all species and subspecies), a third of which are threatened. The major drivers of habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation are grazing, forestry, agriculture and transport infrastructure.
Sam Shanee   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

New records of Tamarix ramosissima Ledeb. (Tamaricaceae) in basins of Western Chaco dry forest, northwestern Argentina [PDF]

open access: yesCheck List, 2017
Different species of the exotic plant Tamarix have been registered as colonizing natural and semi-natural environments in many provinces of Argentina. Nevertheless, the genus has not been cited for Tucumán or Santiago del Estero provinces, and
Edgardo Javier Ignacio Pero
doaj   +3 more sources

Use of artificial refuges as a strategy for the conservation of bats

open access: yesRevista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 2022
One of the main problems for the conservation of bats in Colombia is ignorance about them and their ecosystem services. In this study, we aimed to contribute to the understanding and conservation of the bat fauna of the Pasuncha region (Pacho ...
Juan Camilo Vieda-Ortega   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Preformative molt in Neotropical Cardinalidae [PDF]

open access: yesOrnithology Research, 2020
Neotropical Cardinalidae consists of 40 species in 10 genera that have diversified across the Americas. We provide quantitative information on the preformative molt of 21 Cardinalidae species of seven genera, plus one Thraupidae species placed within Cardinalidae until recently.
Consorci del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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