Macroevolutionary rates of diversification and anthropogenic extinction risk differ vastly
throughout the Tree of Life. This results in a highly heterogeneous distribution of …

Background The threats facing Ecuador's Yasuní National Park are emblematic of those
confronting the greater western Amazon, one of the world's last high-biodiversity wilderness …

Rain forests represent the world's richest repository of terrestrial biodiversity, and play a
major role in regulating the global climate. They support the livelihoods of a substantial …

Over 1,400,000 m of line transect data were collected in collaboration with Ache Indians to
determine encounter rates with all large vertebrates in the Mbaracayu Reserve Paraguay …

Aim Our aim was to investigate how the distance to water (flooding gradients) and riverine
barriers (Tapajós and Jamanxim rivers) influence the distributional patterns of amphibian …

In the last decades research efforts studying Amazonian biodiversity have increased
substantially, with many new localities surveyed, new specimens collected, and some new …

Neotropical herpetofaunas have been studied at selected Central and South American sites,
but intra‐regional analyses in the Neotropics have not been possible due to lack of long …

The genus Marmosops comprises small marsupials of the family Didelphidae (≤ 200 g),
widely distributed in a variety of lowland rainforest and montane forest habitats, extending …

The lowland rainforests of the Amazon basin harbor some of the most species-rich reptile
communities on Earth. However, there is considerable heterogeneity among climatically …

Background Dipsadine snakes represent one of the most spectacular vertebrate radiations
that have occurred in any continental setting, with over 800 species in South and Central …