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When Raptors Are Away, Opossums Will Play: Woolly Opossums as Carrion Feeders in Harpy Eagle Nests

open access: yesBiotropica, Volume 57, Issue 6, November 2025.
Scavenging by New World marsupials is rarely documented. We recorded woolly opossums (Caluromys lanatus) scavenging prey remains from a Harpy eagle’s nest in central Brazil. The low overlap in activity periods between the two species may facilitate the behavior observed here.
João Pedro Fernandes Machado   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estratégias reprodutivas dos peixes do Pantanal. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
bitstream/item/80008/1/ADM128.pdfFormato eletrônico. Disponível também em: corumbaonline.com.br; boletimpecuario.com.br; cassilandianews.com.br; agorams.com.br; ultimahoranews.com; campogrande.news.com.br, capitaldopantanal.com.br; bbcnews.com.br ...
RESENDE, E. K. de
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Landscape use by prey: Bottom‐up regulation prevails under reduced predation risk

open access: yesEcosphere, Volume 15, Issue 11, November 2024.
Abstract Resource specialist herbivores may suppress antipredator strategies to access scarcely available key resources, while proactive antipredator behaviors should be favored by generalists or when resources are abundant. We quantified the relative effects of predation‐ (top‐down) and resource‐driven (bottom‐up) constraints on spatiotemporal ...
Filipe Rocha   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Os protozoários como ferramenta da monitorização biotecnológica da poluição: ensaios in vitro [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Os protozoários, e particularmente os ciliados, são essenciais nos processos de depuração biológica e aeróbica das águas residuais e constituem, por outro lado, um grupo de organismos muito sensível às alterações ambientais. Neste trabalho, pretendese
Carvalho, Graça Simões de   +4 more
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Dietary metabarcoding reveals the simplification of bird–pest interaction networks across a gradient of agricultural cover

open access: yesMolecular Ecology, Volume 33, Issue 8, April 2024.
Abstract Agriculture is vital for supporting human populations, but its intensification often leads to landscape homogenization and a decline in non‐provisioning ecosystem services. Ecological intensification and multifunctional landscapes are suggested as nature‐based alternatives to intensive agriculture, using ecological processes like natural pest ...
Luis P. da Silva   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predação de animais domésticos em pequenas propriedades rurais do entorno de áreas protegidas da Mata Atlântica do Estado de Pernambuco, Brasil

open access: yesMedicina Veterinária, 2020
O objetivo desse estudo foi caracterizar a ocorrência de predação a rebanhos domésticos em pequenas propriedades rurais do entorno de áreas protegidas da Mata Atlântica do Estado de Pernambuco, Brasil.
Diogo Lima Franco   +5 more
doaj  

Efeitos de Fatores Ambientais na Reprodução de Tartarugas Environmental factors effects in turtles reproduction

open access: yesActa Amazonica, 2009
Para as espécies de tartaruga que apresentam a determinação sexual dependente da temperatura da incubação o local e o momento da desova, exercem influências que vão além da definição do sexo dos embriões. A influência do local da desova se estende a todo
Paulo Dias Ferreira Júnior
doaj   +1 more source

Comportamento [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
XXXII Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia, Foz do Iguaçu, 2018. Tema: Desafios e perspectivas para a Zoologia na América LatinaCaderno de Resumos de Trabalhos da Área temática Comportamento, do XXXII Congresso Brasileiro de ZoologiaSociedade Brasileira de ...

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Native forest and proximity to humans are stronger drivers of Brazilian cottontail habitat use than invasive European hare

open access: yesBiotropica, Volume 56, Issue 2, March 2024.
Probability of Brazilian cottontail using sites increases with native forest cover and decreases with farmhouse proximity. Increased human proximity to tropical forests and tropical deforestation are currently more relevant threats to the conservation of the Brazilian cottontail in southeastern Brazil than the European hare invasion.
Nielson Pasqualotto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Piscivory by Hoplias aff. malabaricus (Bloch, 1794): a question of prey availability?

open access: yesActa Limnologica Brasiliensia, 2013
AIM: In order to understand the factors which influence the predatory activity of the Hoplias aff. malabaricus, the present study evaluated feeding habits of this species and its relation to prey availability, in addition to environmental variables ...
Ana Karla Araujo Montenegro   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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