Plastics and waterbirds in Brazil: a review of ingestion, nest materials and entanglement reveals substantial knowledge gaps and opportunities for research

NW Daudt, L Bugoni, GT Nunes - Environmental Pollution, 2023 - Elsevier
Plastic pollution is an increasing global problem, especially in aquatic environments. From
invertebrates to vertebrates, many aquatic species have been affected by plastic pollution …

On species concepts, species delimitation criteria, taxonomy committees, and biases: A response to Lima (2022a)

A Aleixo - Ornithology Research, 2023 - Springer
In a recent commentary, Lima (Ornithol Res 30: 225–228,) claims that the Brazilian
Ornithological Records Committee (CBRO) bases its species ranking decisions on a …

[PDF][PDF] Lista oficial de las aves de Colombia 2022: Adiciones, cambios taxonómicos y actualizaciones de estado

MÁ Echeverry-Galvis, O Acevedo-Charry… - Ornitología …, 2022 - researchgate.net
Presentamos una actualización de la lista de las aves de Colombia con base en registros
documentados a partir de septiembre de 2017, siguiendo, por primera vez, criterios …

Beached seabirds as plastic biomonitors in Brazil from the Beach Monitoring Project of the Santos Basin (PMP-BS)

L Baes, CD Santiago, L Roman… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
Bioindicator species are useful to monitor wildlife exposure to plastic pollution, and
responses to plastic leakage and policy interventions. Here we explore the biomonitoring …

Riverine barriers as obstacles to dispersal in Amazonian birds

LN Naka, BMS Costa, GR Lima… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Amazonian rivers represent known barriers for avian dispersal, reducing gene flow and
enhancing differentiation. Despite the importance of rivers in the avian evolutionary process …

Multi-temporal ecological niche modeling for bird conservation in the face of climate change scenarios in Caatinga, Brazil

GSR Gonçalves, PV Cerqueira, DP Silva, LB Gomes… - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Background Global shifts in climatic patterns have been recorded over the last decades.
Such modifications mainly correspond to increased temperatures and rainfall regime …

Subspecies‐level distribution maps for birds of the Amazon basin and adjacent areas

MA Rego, G Del‐Rio, RT Brumfield - Journal of Biogeography, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim Distribution maps for Amazonian birds are often limited to species‐level
taxonomy even though many subspecies represent biological species. We provide digital …

Increase in size and shrub cover improves bird functional diversity in Neotropical urban green spaces

MA Melo, AJ Piratelli - Austral Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Latin American cityscapes are growing fast, posing risks to many bird communities and
ecosystem services (eg seed dispersal and arthropod population control), but few studies …

Plastic nests: The first record of the Yellow-rumped Cacique (Cacicus cela) and the Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus) building nests with discarded fishing …

R Monteiro, EC Pardal, M Ândrade, DS Mendes… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
The Amazonian coastal ecosystems face a significant threat from plastic contamination,
posing a major risk to their biodiversity. Here, we provide the first evidence of using plastics …

Integrating nocturnal and diurnal interactions in a Neotropical pollination network

CS Souza, PE Oliveira, BB Rosa… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Plants establish pollination interactions with different groups of animals, including nocturnal
ones that establish interactions with economically valuable and culturally important crops, as …