Neotropical ornithology: Reckoning with historical assumptions, removing systemic barriers, and reimagining the future

L Soares, KL Cockle, E Ruelas Inzunza… - Ornithological …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Una barrera importante para el avance de la ornitología es la exclusión sistémica de los
profesionales del Sur Global. Una colección especial de artículos publicada recientemente …

Biogeography and evolution of the Cerrado endemic avifauna

LE Lopes, JMC Silva - Journal of Biogeography, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Endemicity is one of the main indicators to describe and compare regional biotas.
Endemic species can originate from inter‐or intra‐regional speciation, but few studies have …

Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of the ancient genus Onychorhynchus (Aves: Onychorhynchidae) suggest cryptic Amazonian diversity

P Reyes, JM Bates, LN Naka, MJ Miller… - Journal of Avian …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We examined phylogeographic patterns and cryptic diversity within the royal flycatcher,
Onychorhynchus coronatus (Aves: Onychorhynchidae), a widespread Neotropical lowland …

Amazonian avian biogeography: Broadscale patterns, microevolutionary processes, and habitat-specific models revealed by multidisciplinary approaches

JMG Capurucho, LJ Musher, A Lees, MA Rego… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Our understanding of Amazonian biogeography is quickly increasing, catalyzed by the
growing use of genomic datasets, improved knowledge of species distributions, and the …

Model-based analyses suggest Pleistocene Refugia over ancient divergence as Main diversification driver for a Neotropical open-habitat Treefrog

F Brusquetti, NC Pupin, CFB Haddad - Evolutionary Biology, 2023 - Springer
Studies about diversification of Neotropical open-habitat organisms are scarce, especially in
frogs, in which almost all studied species from Cerrado, Chaco, and Caatinga are mainly …

Phylogeographic and demographic patterns reveal congruent histories in seven Amazonian White‐Sand ecosystems birds

JMG Capurucho, MV Ashley, C Cornelius… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The drivers of genetic diversity in Amazonia, the most species‐rich set of ecosystems on
Earth, are still incompletely understood. Species from distinct Amazonian ecosystems have …

Niche-dependent forest and savanna fragmentation in Tropical South America during the Last Glacial Maximum

DI Kelley, H Sato, M Ecker, CA Burton… - npj Biodiversity, 2024 - nature.com
The refugia hypothesis, often used to explain Amazonia's high biodiversity, initially received
ample support but has garnered increasing criticism over time. Palynological, phylogenetic …

Ecomorphology and functional diversity of generalist and specialist bird assemblages in Amazonian white-sand ecosystem habitat patches

GR Lima, SH Borges, M Anciães, C Cornelius - Acta Amazonica, 2023 - SciELO Brasil
Birds that inhabit white-sand ecosystems (WSE) in the Amazon are adapted to habitats
distributed as isolated patches. These environments occur in sandy soils that are extremely …

Imprints of tropical niche conservatism and historical dispersal in the radiation of Tyrannidae (Aves: Passeriformes)

A Van Dijk, G Nakamura, AV Rodrigues… - Biological Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Speciation events occurring within biogeographic regions, and historical dispersal between
regions influence diversity patterns observed in present-day assemblages. Such …

Landscape configuration of an Amazonian island-like ecosystem drives population structure and genetic diversity of a habitat-specialist bird

CD Ritter, CC Ribas, J Menger, SH Borges… - Landscape …, 2021 - Springer
Context Amazonian white-sand ecosystems (campinas) are open vegetation patches which
form a natural island-like system in a matrix of tropical rainforest. Due to a clear distinction …