Biodiversity conservation planning must be ecosystem-specific and take into account human
needs as food production. The Pampa biome is a temperate grassland with high species …

Few studies have focused the vertical structure of bat assemblages, and how it influences
community composition. The goal of this study was to analyze the vertical structure of an …

Rainfall is often indirectly related to the availability of resources, which in turn regulates the
abundance of rodents over time. However, the direct influence of rainfall on daily activity is …

This chapter provides an overview of the knowledge on mammals in the Campos Sulinos.
To date, 134 native species have been recorded, of which eleven are endemic. Through a …

Abstract The Pampa biome within Brazil is one of South America's most endangered
biomes, due to conversion to croplands and use for cattle farming, with very limited coverage …

The use of space by animals is determined by environmental conditions, biological and
ecological adaptations and interactions and mostly by resource availability. We sampled two …

O espaço físico é uma das principais dimensões do nicho de uma espécie uma vez que a
maneira como é utilizado determina uma série de interações ecológicas com o ambiente …

Abstract Space use patterns of a population are a result of the set of movements of its
individuals, which are directly influenced by their attributes and environmental conditions …

Differences in the patterns of microhabitat use by small mammals have been largely related
to the coexistence process of the species. The present study analyses how the marsupial …

The objective of this study was to investigate some parameters of the space use by
individuals in a population of the hystricognath rodent Thrichomys apereoides (Lund, 1839) …