Diversification of Neotropical freshwater fishes

JS Albert, VA Tagliacollo… - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Neotropical freshwater fishes (NFFs) constitute the most diverse continental vertebrate fauna
on Earth, with more than 6,200 named species compressed into an aquatic footprint< 0.5 …

The changing course of the Amazon River in the Neogene: center stage for Neotropical diversification

JS Albert, P Val, C Hoorn - Neotropical Ichthyology, 2018 - SciELO Brasil
We review geological evidence on the origin of the modern transcontinental Amazon River,
and the paleogeographic history of riverine connections among the principal sedimentary …

Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research

A Antonelli, M Ariza, J Albert, T Andermann, J Azevedo… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
The unparalleled biodiversity found in the American tropics (the Neotropics) has attracted
the attention of naturalists for centuries. Despite major advances in recent years in our …

River network rearrangements promote speciation in lowland Amazonian birds

LJ Musher, M Giakoumis, J Albert, G Del-Rio… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Large Amazonian rivers impede dispersal for many species, but lowland river networks
frequently rearrange, thereby altering the location and effectiveness of river barriers through …

Accelerated diversification explains the exceptional species richness of tropical characoid fishes

BF Melo, BL Sidlauskas, TJ Near, FF Roxo… - Systematic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The Neotropics harbor the most species-rich freshwater fish fauna on the planet, but the
timing of that exceptional diversification remains unclear. Did the Neotropics accumulate …

Systematics and biogeography of the Boana albopunctata species group (Anura, Hylidae), with the description of two new species from Amazonia

A Fouquet, P Marinho, A Réjaud… - Systematics and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The outstanding species richness of Amazonia has fascinated biologists for centuries.
However, the records of actual numbers and distribution of species forming its ecosystems …

The erosional signature of drainage divide motion along the Blue Ridge Escarpment

MF Stokes, IJ Larsen, SL Goldberg… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The planform rearrangement of river basins is recognized as an important process for
landscape evolution. The boundaries of river basins can shift either through gradual …

Past riverine connectivity effects in population structure and distribution of an endemic freshwater fish from northeastern Brazilian rivers: Phylogeographic, taxonomic …

L Oliveira‐Silva, H Batalha‐Filho, P Camelier… - Freshwater …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The coastal basins of eastern Brazil are influenced by geomorphologic and climatic changes
that caused river captures and temporary paleo‐connections due to sea‐level oscillations …

Late Neogene megariver captures and the Great Amazonian biotic interchange

JS Albert, MJ Bernt, AH Fronk, JP Fontenelle… - Global and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently published time-calibrated molecular phylogenies have brought to light a large-
scale biotic interchange between the Western and Eastern Amazon basins, associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing extinction risk from geographic distribution data in Neotropical freshwater fishes

VA Tagliacollo, FCP Dagosta, M Pinna… - Neotropical …, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
Abstract The IUCN Red List (RL) provides high-quality conservation assessments for
individual species, yet the rate and scale of environmental deterioration globally challenges …