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New records of marsupials from the Miocene of Western Amazonia, Acre, Brazil [PDF]

open access: yesActa Palaeontologica Polonica, 2023
The Amazonian region covers a significant part of the South American continent and harbors outstanding biodiversity. However, much of its history is still unknown.
Narla S. Stutz   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Variable interspecific competition under megadrought conditions: rodent population dynamics in semiarid Chile

open access: yesOikos, Volume 2023, Issue 7, July 2023., 2023
Deciphering how climatic variability modulates the interspecific interactions in natural systems is one of the most interesting and least studied ecological processes. Rodent outbreaks or irruptions in semiarid Chile are associated with rainfall pulses driven by the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
Mauricio Lima   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guanaco colonisation of Tierra del Fuego Island from mainland Patagonia: Walked, swam, or by canoe?

open access: yesGeo: Geography and Environment, Volume 9, Issue 2, July‐December 2022., 2022
A geographical and biological puzzle that has perplexed scientists since the late 1800s working in southern South America: why are there so few vertebrates on the island of Tierra del Fuego compared to the adjacent Patagonia mainland, including the absence of the ubiquitous Guanaco (Lama guanicoe), wild camelid of the south? An interdisciplinary search
William L. Franklin
wiley   +1 more source

The ecology and evolution of the monito del monte, a relict species from the southern South America temperate forests

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 12, Issue 3, March 2022., 2022
We present a review summarizing the recent advances on the biology of the enigmatic monito del monte, a relict Gondwanan mammal from southern South America. Abstract The arboreal marsupial monito del monte (genus Dromiciops, with two recognized species) is a paradigmatic mammal.
Francisco E. Fontúrbel   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thylamys elegans

open access: yes, 2021
ELEGANT FAT-TAILED MOUSE OPOSSUM Thylamys elegans (Waterhouse, 1839) (LC) MZUT T455 (735); skin; unsexed ad.; Valparaiso, Chile; 1845; purchased by G.A. Frank; MZUT T456 (840); skin; unsexed ad.; Chile; 1849; Picollet d’Hermillon; MZUT T457 (2935); skin; male ad.; Quilpué, Chile; no date; donation by Enrico Festa (the specimen was originally part of ...
Ghiraldi, Luca   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Marsupiais da Bacia do Alto Paraguai: uma revisão do conhecimento do planalto à planície pantaneira

open access: yesBoletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Naturais, 2021
A ordem Didelphimorphia é composta somente pela família Didelphidae, exclusiva do continente americano. Esta família é amplamente distribuída na região Neotropical, ocupando grande variedade de hábitats.
Pâmela Castro Antunes   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

LEVANTAMENTO DE AGENTES ZOONÓTICOS ENCONTRADOS EM PEQUENOS MARSUPIAIS DA AMÉRICA DO SUL

open access: yesHeringeriana, 2018
Zoonoses são doenças que são transmitidas de animais vertebrados para o homem e também do homem para os animais, principalmente quando seu ciclo ecológico é alterado, seja por intervenção natural ou pela intervenção humana.
Cintia Povill   +2 more
doaj   +5 more sources

The Role of Habitat Amount and Vegetation Density for Explaining Loss of Small-Mammal Diversity in a South American Woodland Savanna

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The focus of research and conservation in tropical regions is mainly devoted to forest ecosystems, usually neglecting the processes underlying widespread, more open biomes, like savannas.
Geruza L. Melo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Species all in One: Ephemerals, Rodents, and Their Predators Shape the Effects of El Niño on Arid Perennial Vegetation

open access: yes, 2021
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, Volume 102, Issue 1, January 2021.
Cristina Armas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Involvement of synaptonemal complex proteins in sex chromosome segregation during marsupial male meiosis. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Genetics, 2006
Marsupial sex chromosomes break the rule that recombination during first meiotic prophase is necessary to ensure reductional segregation during first meiotic division.
Jesús Page   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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