Vegetation growing on white‐sand soils is patchily distributed across the Amazon and is
characterized by scrublands or open vegetation types (white‐sand campinas) and by forests …

White-sand vegetation (WSV) is a rare vegetation type in the Amazon basin that grows in
nutrient impoverished sandy soils that occur as patches of variable size. Associated with this …

Much of the remarkable beta diversity of the Amazon biome is associated with the variety of
vegetation types and other broad environmental gradients. We investigated ant …

This authoritative handbook, part of the Helm Identification Guide series, looks in detail at
the beautiful antpittas. Elusive study organisms for ornithologists and highly prized additions …

Aim We address the relative importance of biogeographic regions (areas of endemism),
regional climate and spatial factors on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic beta diversity …

White-sand vegetation (WSV) enclaves occur throughout Amazonia. WSV, known in Brazil
as campina or campinarana, possesses peculiar floral and faunal communities, different …

Field records are critical to understand the bird species distribution in ecological and
evolutionary contexts, especially in regions with high species diversity such as the Amazon …

Abstract From 15 January to 06 February 2016, we conducted an expedition to the Serra da
Mocidade, a remote and previously unexplored mountain range in extreme northern …

Brazil is home to many mountain ranges which harbor diverse avifauna. However, studies
on the altitudinal distribution of Brazilian birds are still few and many have never been …

The Amazonian cangas is a vegetation type distributed as patches of open vegetation
embedded in a matrix of tropical forest and that grows over iron-rich soils in the Serra dos …