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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
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Landscape Genetics in the Neotropics

open access: yes, 2023
Landscape genetics is an interdisciplinary field that aims at assessing the influence of environmental and landscape factors on microevolutionary processes, especially gene flow and natural selection. It provides a powerful toolbox that can be applied to
Silva Carvalho, Carolina da   +1 more
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Taxonomic revision of Sobralia section Racemosae Brieger (Sobralieae, Orchidaceae)

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Sobralia Ruiz & Pav. is a large and morphologically diverse neotropical orchid genus. It can be divided into four sections and some informal groups of species based mainly on the inflorescence architecture.
Przemyslaw Baranow   +2 more
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In Situ, Ex Situ and On Farm Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources in Neotropics

open access: yes, 2023
The prospect for the coming decades will be for humanity to witness a holocaust of species on Earth. Within these species are plants for food purposes undergoing genetic erosion and, putting at risk not only their own existence, but the safety of human ...
Costa, Flaviane Malaquias   +4 more
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Phylogenetic diversity and conservation of crop wild relatives in Colombia

open access: yesEvolutionary Applications, 2021
Crop wild relatives (CWR) are an important agricultural resource as they contain genetic traits not found in cultivated species due to localized adaptation to unique environmental and climatic conditions.
Carlos E. González‐Orozco   +3 more
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In euglossine we trust as ecological indicators: a reply to Añino et al. (2019)

open access: yesSociobiology, 2021
Orchid bees have been considered as good ecological indicators of habitat disturbances but recently Añino et al. (2019. Sociobiology, 66: 194-197) highlighted reasons why Euglossini role as indicators should be reevaluated.
Rodrigo Barbosa Gonçalves   +1 more
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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   +445 more
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Synopsis of Anomobryum and Bryum (Bryaceae, Bryophyta) in Brazil

open access: yesActa Botânica Brasílica, 2022
Bryaceae is a species-rich moss family comprising ten genera and 660 species, with four genera and 54 species occurring in Brazil. Bryum is the largest genus, with 440 cosmopolitan species, while Anomobryum comprises 47 cosmopolitan species.
Bianca Kalinowski Canestraro   +1 more
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A new species of Clandestinotrema ( Ascomycota : Ostropales : Graphidaceae ) from montane cloud forest in the Venezuelan Andes

open access: yesPlant and Fungal Systematics, 2018
Revision of lichen herbarium specimens at DUKE revealed a species of thelotremoid Graphidaceae new to science. Clandestinotrema carbonera sp. nov. is characterized by an olive-green thallus, dense cortex, the absence of a columella, ascospores 15–24 × 5 ...
Ian D. Medeiros
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A revision of the Neotropical genus Chespiritos (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae: Limosininae)

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Entomology, 2020
The genus Chespiritos Marshall, 2000 (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) is revised, including C. sindecimus Marshall, 2000, C. pervadens Roháček and Buck, 2003 and 19 new species.
Gregory K. KUWAHARA, Stephen A. MARSHALL
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