The eastern coastal basins of Brazil are a series of small and isolated rivers that drain
directly into the Atlantic Ocean. During the Pleistocene, sea-level retreat caused by …

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD for short), established in Rio de Janeiro in
1992, was a major effort in several respects relevant to systematic research and the use of …

Today, 93 percent of freshwater drainage off South America runs into the Atlantic. South
America's drainage pattern was shaped by its persistent Guyana and Brazilian continental …

The eastern Brazilian coastal drainages are of great biogeographical significance, because
of their highly endemic fish faunas. Phylogenetic patterns suggest a close biotic relationship …

The genus Otocinclus Cope (1872) of the siluriform family Loricariidae is diagnosed as
monophyletic on the basis of shared derived characters of the cranial and hyobranchial …

Publisher Summary This chapter emphasizes the ecological responses of fishes to spatial
and temporal variation in tropical stream habitats. It also discusses the steps to alleviate …

We constructed phylogenetic hypotheses for Mesoamerican Rhamdia, the only genus of
primary freshwater fish represented by sympatric species across Central America …

Abstract Tropical South America possesses the largest ichthyofauna of any continental
region. To test whether palaeohydrological changes may have been the causes of such …

Foram amostrados 17 trechos de riachos com 100 m de extensão, todos de ordem igual ou
menor a três, ao longo de ambas as margens do canal principal do Rio Paranapanema, SP …

Geological and climatic events are widely understood to affect biodiversity, especially in the
species-rich rainforests of Greater Amazonia, yet similar studies have lagged in less diverse …