A look at seed dispersal via mammal droppings [PDF]
, 2014 Terrestrial mammals are good dispersers of the fruits and seeds of seasonal rainforest in the Gulf of Mexico. Their importance lies in the huge quantity of fruit and seeds they consume, and their daily and seasonal movement through natural and secondary ...
Guevara Sada, Sergio +2 more
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Medium to large size mammals of southern Serra do Amolar, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazilian Pantanal [PDF]
, 2014 Serra do Amolar (Amolar Mountain Ridge) is considered a Priority Area for biodiversity conservation in the Pantanal biome according to the Environmental Ministry of Brazil. Despite this fact, it is a little-studied area, lacking basic information such as
Cruz, Joana +4 more
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Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2017 This study aimed to report the occurrence of species of nematodes in wild carnivore mammals from a locality of Atlantic forest in Brazil. Specimens of wild carnivore mammals of 3 species were necropsied: Chrysocyon brachyurus (Illiger, 1815), Cerdocyon ...
Fabiano Matos Vieira +4 more
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Learning Topic-Sensitive Word Representations [PDF]
, 2017 Distributed word representations are widely used for modeling words in NLP tasks. Most of the existing models generate one representation per word and do not consider different meanings of a word.
Bisazza, Arianna +2 more
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Non-volant mammals in a protected area on the Central Andes of Colombia: new records for the Caldas department and the Chinchiná River basin [PDF]
Check List, 2015 The Chinchiná River basin is located on the western slope of the Colombian Central Andes. This basin provides ecosystem services such as water provision for >500,000 people, but has suffered considerable ecosystem degradation, and the information
Andrés Ramírez-Mejía +1 more
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Polling the Public to Select Flagship Species for Tourism and Conservation-A 'Big Five' for the Peruvian Amazon? [PDF]
Ecol EvolFlagship species are used to promote conservation and tourism, but selecting species purely for prescribed appealing characteristics may overlook unique flagships or homogenise selections. A strategy of polling the public can more directly identify existing preferences for species for marketing.
Recharte M, Lee PC, Vick SJ, Bowler M.
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Riqueza e diversidade de mamíferos na Região da Serra do Facão, sudeste do estado de Goiás, Brasil central [PDF]
, 2015 Há 251 espécies de mamíferos de ocorrência confirmada no cerrado, o terceiro bioma brasileiro em riqueza de espécies. A maioria dos inventários da mastofauna do cerrado é resultado de estudos oportunísticos, com curta duração.
Brandão, Reuber Albuquerque +3 more
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Stereotypic route tracing in captive Carnivora is predicted by species-typical home range sizes and hunting styles [PDF]
, 2016 In captive conditions (e.g. zoos), some Carnivora species typically show negligible stereotypic behaviour (SB) and reproduce successfully, while others tend to reproduce poorly and be very stereotypic.
Clubb, Ros +5 more
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New distribution records of eighteen mammalian species (Artiodactyla, Cervidae, Tayassuidae; Carnivora, Canidae, Felidae, Procyonidae, Ursidae; Cingulata, Dasypodidae; Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae; Lagomorpha, Leporidae; Pilosa, Myrmecophagidae; Primates, Atelidae; Rodentia, Dasyproctidae, Abrocomidae) in Bolivia’s neglected inter-Andean dry forests: implications for their global conservation status [PDF]
Check ListWe report new distribution records for 18 mammal species in Tarija, Bolivia. Tremarctos ornatus (Cuvier, 1825), Puma concolor (Linnaeus, 1771), Cerdocyon thous (Linnaeus, 1766), Lycalopex gymnocercus (Fischer, 1814), Leopardus wiedii (Schinz, 1821 ...
Ximena Velez-Liendo +2 more
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Túmulo II del Brazo Largo: A contribution to the archaeology of the Paraná Lower Delta [PDF]
, 2017 En este trabajo se presentan los resultados del análisis de la colección del Túmulo II del Brazo Largo (Delta Inferior del Paraná), datada en circa 750 años 14C AP.
Bastourre, Maria Laura +5 more
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