The Atlantic Forest is considered one of the world's hotspots of biodiversity and, even with the growing threat to its ecosystems, has a high level of biological diversity and endemism. Euphorbiaceae is one of the largest, ...

There are some extremely biodiverse regions in South America such as the Andes, the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest. The historical processes that originated and maintain such diversity are still not fully understood. Our ...

With less than 16% of its original extent, the Atlantic Forest has been restored in order to rebuild the functional richness of biological communities. However, verification of the effectiveness of restoration actions ...

Bird vocalizations are important signals in specific recognition, mediating territorial competition as well as female choice. In birds, population divergence in vocalizations can act as barriers to gene flow, leading to ...

The island organisms undergo ecological and evolutionary pressures different from their mainland conspecifics due to reduced area and isolation. As for the body size of animals, gigantism and dwarfism are two standards ...

The small lizards of the genus Loxopholis inhabit the leaf litter of Central and South America tropical forests. The genus includes 10 bisexual species and the unisexual L. percarinatum, the latter widely distributed ...

Scorpiones has a great diversity of species and very particular chromosomal characteristics, such as holocentric and monocentric chromosomes, absence of genetic recombination during meiosis and great interspecific and ...