Documenting patterns of published studies on the biodiversity of megadiverse countries can
offer valuable insights on global biodiversity knowledge. Here, I present results from a …

Background and Research Aims: Globally, Colombia is the country with the largest extent of
Páramos (delimited in 36 complexes) and with the greatest number of amphibian species in …

Colombia is listed as the second largest country in plant diversity in the world, presenting
more than 6000 species of endemic plants. The different genus and species of plants, as …

Durante las últimas tres o cuatro décadas la investigación en biodiversidad ha sufrido un
cambio radical. Hasta los años 60 o 70 del siglo pasado, las ciencias naturales (cuya parte …

A checklist of 5 subfamilies, 108 genera, and 246 species of stinks bugs (Hemiptera,
Pentatomidae) from Colombia is provided. Three genera [Andrallus Bergroth, Placocoris …

Biological collections are sources of knowledge, particularly critical to understand life when
they house specimens from megadiverse countries. However, the scientific value of …

La Amazonía se considera una de las zonas con mayor diversidad de mamíferos a escala
mundial. El conocimiento de dicha diversidad en Colombia es aún parcial y fragmentado …

Collections of frozen tissue samples stand as keystone sources of molecular information to
construct biodiversity knowledge, and are particularly challenged if they focus on …

Abstract The Andean region of Northern South America is widely recognized as a hotspot
with extreme levels of diversity, endemism, and threat. In a taxonomic study on jumping …

El trabajo de los investigadores Hugo López, Olga Montenegro y Luisa Liéva-no del Instituto
de Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad Nacional de Colom-bia representa un aporte …