Islands have long provided material and inspiration for the study of evolution and ecology.
The West Indies are complex historically and geographically, providing a rich backdrop for …

The status of many carnivore populations is of growing concern to scientists and
conservationists, making the need for data pertaining to carnivore distribution, abundance …

Considerable resources and efforts have been directed at biodiversity conservation in recent
years, but measures of the success of conservation programmes have been limited. Based …

Parrots of the Wild explores recent scientific discoveries and what they reveal about the lives
of wild parrots, which are among the most intelligent and rarest of birds. Catherine A. Toft …

Although forest-dependent, tropical island endemic birds are particularly at risk of extinction,
they remain largely understudied. In this context, we assessed the spatial occupancy, local …

As the second largest cause of biodiversity loss worldwide, there is an urgent need to study
the dynamics of biological invasions and identify factors limiting the distribution of invasive …

Beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1970s, rhesus macaques and patas
monkeys were introduced to presumed secure locations, primarily coastal islets, in Puerto …

The Luquillo Experimental Forest (LEF) located on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico has
a rich history of ecological research, including a variety of avian studies, and is one of the …

Ornithologists have hypothesized that some tropical forest birds avoid snake predation by
nesting in isolated trees that do not have vines and canopy contact with neighbouring trees …

The small Indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) is a diurnal opportunistic omnivore
native to parts of the Middle East, India, and Asia (Corbet and Hill 1992; Lekagul and …