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Identifying hotspots of faunal data deficiency to direct urgent research and monitoring. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Abstract Data deficiency is a substantial challenge for extinction risk assessments because incomplete data means we cannot accurately identify priority protected areas for conservation. Here, we use the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) distributions of amphibians, sharks and rays, fish, mammals, birds, and reptiles to identify ...
Hayward MW, Verdon-Kidd D, Colyvas K, Saxon E, Griffin AS.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Urban-Wild Interface Diversity: A Comprehensive Checklist of Herpetofauna of Guayaquil, Ecuador. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Amphibians and reptiles in Guayaquil comprise multiple taxonomic orders and occur across conservation areas, forest remnants, and urban parks, including several endemic species and numerous taxa with type localities in the city. Although most species are globally classified as Least Concern, discrepancies between global and national threat assessments ...
Cruz-García K, Zapata-Salvatierra N, Narváez AE, Pérez-Correa J.   +3 more
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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas. [PDF]

Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc
ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Butchart SHM, Crowe O, Scott T, Plumptre AJ, Eldred M, McKee E, Waliczky Z, Hasani IA, Azpiroz AB, Baisero D, Barasa F, Beresford AE, Bezeng BS, Boyd C, Brooks TM, Buchanan G, Bunting G, Capellan S, Cox N, Davenport TRB, Davies TE, Togna GD, Elliott W, Foster M, Gilbert J, Handley JM, Juffe-Bignoli D, Jones VR, Kingston N, Kivono J, Lamoreux J, Langhammer PF, Lewis J, Liggitt B, Marnewick D, Matiku P, McCreless E, Neugarten RA, Numa C, O'Brien M, Rao M, Raudsepp-Hearne C, Ray JC, Rijal S, Rodríguez JP, Sapijanskas J, Sechrest W, Sneary M, Snyder A, Spiliopoulou K, Starnes T, Tobar C, Surya G, Tognelli MF, Tordoff AW, Toscano MG, Trisurat Y, Upgren A.   +57 more
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Nuevos registros de babosas marinas (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) para isla Clarión, archipiélago Revillagigedo, México

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad
El archipiélago de Revillagigedo se ubica en el Pacífico este tropical y consta de 4 islas volcánicas, isla Clarión es la más occidental y remota de este parque marino de México. Esta región está influenciada por aguas frías provenientes de la corriente
Héctor Alejandro Hernández-Castellanos, Víctor Landa-Jaime, Jesús Emilio Michel-Morfín   +2 more
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Lista sistemática de la ictiofauna de Bahía de Banderas, México

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2006
LA BAHÍA DE BANDERAS UBICADA EN EL PACÍFICO CENTRAL MEXICANO ALBERGA UNA GRAN RIQUEZA ÍCTICA LA CUAL SE MENCIONA POR PRIMERA VEZ EN ESTE ELENCO SISTEMÁTICO, DONDE SE INCLUYEN 210 ESPECIES, 145 GÉNEROS Y 74 FAMILIAS.
RODRIGO MONCAYO ESTRADA, JOSÉ LUIS CASTRO AGUIRRE, JOSÉ DE LA CRUZ AGÜERO   +2 more
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Ethnobotanical and genetic assessments of Central American avocado landraces reveal novel sources of biodiversity and ancient migration patterns

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Avocados are a multibillion‐dollar global commodity, but their growing export market pressures local farmers to abandon local fruit tree diversity in favor of commercial cultivar production. Interviews with rural avocado farmers and households from the Southern Mexican Highlands, Pacific Coastal Honduras, and Western Nicaragua, as well as the genetic ...
Kevin Wann, Heather B. Thakar, Courtney A. Hofman, Hector Neff, Logan Kistler   +4 more
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“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing responses of reef island seabirds to environmental and anthropogenic drivers

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 5, October 2026.
Abstract Tropical insular ecosystems face escalating, cumulative impacts of land‐ and sea‐based ecological threats that jeopardize the long‐term sustainability of their native communities. This joint vulnerability is epitomized by reef island seabirds, which are exposed to reef decline and coastal erosion driven by climate change, reduction in prey ...
Tristan Berr, Alexandre Millon, Pascal Dumas, Poetea Guehenneuc, Fany Perez, Hélène De Méringo, Julien Baudat‐Franceschi, Éric Vidal   +7 more
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Fuscoporia valenzuelae (Hymenochaetaceae, Basidiomycota), una especie nueva del bosque tropical caducifolio en México

Acta Botanica Mexicana, 2021
Antecedentes y Objetivos: El género Fuscoporia se caracteriza por basidiomas resupinados a pileados, sistema hifal dimítico con hifas generativas hialinas con cristales incrustados, setas hifales, setas himeniales, basidiosporas subglobosas, elipsoides ...
Tania Raymundo
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Portulaca abscondita (Portulacaceae, Caryophyllales), a new microendemic species from Monte Azul, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Nordic Journal of Botany, Volume 2026, Issue 9, September 2026.
Portulaca (Portulacaceae) is a cosmopolitan genus with centers of diversity in Africa and South America. In Brazil, 22 species are recognized, most occurring in xerophytic environments of the Cerrado, particularly in Campos Rupestres. These rocky montane habitats, especially in northern Minas Gerais state, remain undercollected despite their high ...
Danilo Alvarenga Zavatin, Renato Ramos, Jefferson Prado, Angélica Quintanar Castillo, Maria Guadalupe Carvalho Fernandes, Daniela Boanares, José Roberto Ferraz, Thaíla Vieira Alves dos Santos   +7 more
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