Browsing by Subject "Atlantic Forest"
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Another new and threatened species of lancehead genus Bothrops (Serpentes, Viperidae) from Ilha dos Franceses, Southeastern Brazil
(Magnolia Press, 2016)A new insular species of the genus Bothrops is described from Ilha dos Franceses, a small island off the coast of Espirito Santo State, in southeastern Brazil. The new species differs from mainland populations of B. jararaca ...
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Associação entre opiliões Gonyleptes fragilis (Arachnida: Opiliones) e ácaros Leptus (Arachnida: Acari) em fragmentos da Mata Atlântica: Biologia e sazonalidade
(Universidade Federal de São Paulo, 2021-08-10)As relações simbióticas são associações onde duas ou mais espécies vivem intimamente associadas, incluindo parasitismo, forese, mutualismo, entre outras. Nos ácaros uma das associações mais comuns ocorre entre larvas do ...
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Avaliação do uso de borboletas Heliconiinae (Papilionoidea: nymphalidae) como bioindicadores de impactos antrópicos em remanescentes de Mata Atlântica de Santos, São Paulo, Brasil
(Universidade Federal de São Paulo, 2017-10-20)Despite sheltering elevated plant and animal species diversity and presenting a high degree of endemism, the Atlantic Forest has been degraded since the colonial period. According to the Brazilian Forestry Institute, this ...
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Cell wall polysaccharides from cell suspension cultures of the Atlantic Forest tree Rudgea jasminoides (Rubiaceae)
(Springer, 2010-08-01)Rudgea jasminoides (Rubiaceae) is a tropical tree species native of the Atlantic Forest in the south of Brazil. Previous studies with leaf cell walls of R. jasminoides showed a different proportion of cross-linked glycans ...
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Hemosporidian parasites of free-living birds in the So Paulo Zoo, Brazil
(Springer, 2016)Numerous studies addressed the diversity of bird Plasmodium and Haemoproteus parasites. However, a few have been carried out in continental avian hotspot regions such as Brazil, a country with markedly different biomes, ...
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Herpetofauna of the Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu (REGUA) and its surrounding areas, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(Instituto Virtual da Biodiversidade | BIOTA - FAPESP, 2014-09-01)Species inventories are useful tools to improve conservation strategies, especially in highly threatened biomes such as the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Here we present a species list of amphibians and reptiles for the Reserva ...
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Ilhas de floresta nas alturas: inferindo processos históricos associados às distribuições de aves montanas da Mata Atlântica
(Universidade Federal de São Paulo, 2015-07-31)The mountains of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest have a high degree of endemism and its biogeographical history is poorly explored. One hypothesis for the diversification of montane organisms, related to the refuge theory, ...
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Intraspecific variation in body size and sexual size dimorphism, and a test of Rensch's rule in bats
(Wiley, 2017)The magnitude and direction of sexual size dimorphism (SSD) may vary considerably within and among taxa, and the primary causes of such variation have not been thoroughly elucidated. For example, the effect of abiotic ...
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The invasive species rules: competitive exclusion in forest avian mixed-species flocks in a fragmented landscape
(Soc Brasileira Ornitologia, 2017)Evidence of checkerboard patterns of species' distribution in avian mixed-species flocks suggest that competition is one of the forces shaping the composition and structure of these associations. However, evidence of ...
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Molecular phylogeny, biogeography and insights into the origin of parthenogenesis in the Neotropical genus Leposoma (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae): Ancient links between the Atlantic Forest and Amazonia
(Elsevier B.V., 2011-11-01)Leposoma is a conspicuous component of leaf litter herpetofauna of South and Central American rainforests. the 15 bisexual and one parthenogenetic species are allocated to the parietale and scincoides groups based on ...
