The diversification of eastern South American open vegetation biomes: historical biogeography and perspectives

FP Werneck - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Abstract The eastern-central South American open vegetation biomes occur across an
extensive range of environmental conditions and are organized diagonally including three …

[HTML][HTML] Biogeographical regionalisation of the Neotropical region

JJ Morrone - Zootaxa, 2014 - biotaxa.org
A biogeographic regionalisation of the Neotropical region is proposed as a hierarchical
classification of sub-regions, dominions, provinces and districts. This regionalisation is …

Mammals of the Caatinga: diversity, ecology, biogeography, and conservation

AP Carmignotto, D Astúa - Caatinga: the largest tropical dry forest region in …, 2017 - Springer
In this chapter we provide an updated checklist of Caatinga mammals, with a critical review
of previous lists, and an overview of our current knowledge on the distribution and …

Climatic stability in the Brazilian Cerrado: implications for biogeographical connections of South American savannas, species richness and conservation in a …

FP Werneck, C Nogueira, GR Colli… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To investigate the historical distribution of the Cerrado across Quaternary climatic
fluctuations and to generate historical stability maps to test:(1) whether the 'historical …

On the young savannas in the land of ancient forests

JAR Azevedo, RG Collevatti, CA Jaramillo… - … : Patterns and processes, 2020 - Springer
Covering ancient geomorphological landscapes, and surrounded by some of the most
diverse forests on Earth, the Neotropical savannas were once perceived by naturalists as …

In the wake of invasion: tracing the historical biogeography of the South American cricetid radiation (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae)

RN Leite, SO Kolokotronis, FC Almeida, FP Werneck… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI) was greatly influenced by the completion of
the Isthmus of Panama and impacted the composition of modern faunal assemblages in the …

[HTML][HTML] The mammalian faunas endemic to the Cerrado and the Caatinga

EE Gutiérrez, J Marinho-Filho - ZooKeys, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We undertook a comprehensive, critical review of literature concerning the distribution,
conservation status, and taxonomy of species of mammals endemic to the Cerrado and the …

The role of historical barriers in the diversification processes in open vegetation formations during the Miocene/Pliocene using an ancient rodent lineage as a model

FF Nascimento, A Lazar, AN Menezes, AM Durans… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The Neotropics harbors a high diversity of species and several hypotheses have been
proposed to account for this pattern. However, while species of forested domains are …

Phylogeny and molecular species delimitation of long-nosed armadillos (Dasypus: Cingulata) supports morphology-based taxonomy

A Feijó, JF Vilela, J Cheng… - Zoological Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The armadillo genus Dasypus is the most species-rich and widely distributed genus of the
order Cingulata and it has a dynamic taxonomic history. Recent morphology-based studies …

A phylogenetic appraisal of Sigmodontinae (Rodentia, C ricetidae) with emphasis on phyllotine genera: systematics and biogeography

J Salazar‐Bravo, UFJ Pardiñas, G D'elía - Zoologica Scripta, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Here, we present a comprehensive phylogenetic analysis based on nuclear and
mitochondrial DNA sequences of rodents of the subfamily Sigmodontinae. The emphasis is …