The individual identification of animals is essential for long-term population ecology studies.
Injuries and tag loss can negatively impact animal welfare and parameter estimates. We …

Studies on functional performance are important to understand the processes responsible
for the evolution of diversity. Morphological trait variation within species influences the …

Developmental instability (DI) is a phenomenon whereby organisms are unable to buffer
developmental disturbances, resulting in asymmetric variation of paired traits. Previous …

Morphological characters used to separate the frugivorous bat Platyrrhinus recifinus from the
similar Platyrrhinus lineatus have been contentious. This has led to uncertainties about the …

The measurement of fitness in wild populations is a challenging task, and a number of
proxies have been proposed with different degrees of success. Developmental …

Body size variation can have important evolutionary, physiological, functional, and
ecological consequences. Body mass is a widely used size measure across different …

Mammal populations are declining due to habitat fragmentation and loss, but protected
areas can maintain these populations at viable numbers and reduce their risk of extinction …

Sturnira tildae de la Torre, 1959, Tilda's yellow-shouldered bat, is a phyllostomid with wide
geographic distribution across South America. It inhabits preferably lowland mature …

Desde o início da ecologia como uma ciência formal, os ecólogos têm se interessado
intensamente em entender os padrões de diversidade e os mecanismos subjacentes que …

We describe the first known case of disproportionate dwarfism in bats. The specimen is an
adult male Seba's short-tailed bat, Carollia perspicillata (Linnaeus, 1758), captured in a …