The extensive postglacial mammal losses in the West Indies provide an opportunity to
evaluate extinction dynamics, but limited data have hindered our ability to test hypotheses …

Once considered a backwater of New World prehistory, the Caribbean has now emerged
from the archaeological shadows as a critical region for answering a host of questions …

Islands have long been recognized as distinctive evolutionary arenas leading to
morphologically divergent species, such as dwarfs and giants. We assessed how body size …

We describe in this paper a new genus and species of cricetid rodent from the Atlantic Forest
of Brazil, one of the most endangered eco-regions of the world. The new form displays some …

In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination,
without which we would not have become a global species. He sets out to determine the …

Although the recent historical period is usually treated as a temporal base-line for
understanding patterns of mammal extinction, mammalian biodiversity loss has also taken …

The Andean cloud forests of western Colombia and Ecuador are home to several endemic
mammals; members of the Oryzomyini, the largest Sigmodontinae tribe, are extensively …

Identifying general patterns of colonization and radiation in island faunas is often hindered
by past human-caused extinctions. The insular Caribbean is one of the only complex …

The insular Caribbean is among the few oceanic-type island systems colonized by non-
volant land mammals. This region also has experienced the world's highest level of …

Key to the genera of the Tribe Oryzomyini (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) SciELO -
Scientific Electronic Library Online vol.18 número2 Abundancia y patrones de actividad del …