An increasingly asked question is' can we confidently link bats with emerging viruses?'. No,
or not yet, is the qualified answer based on the evidence available. Although more than 200 …

Extant neotropical rainforest biomes are characterized by a high diversity and abundance of
angiosperm trees and vines, high proportions of entire–margined leaves, high proportions of …

Mammal inventories in tropical forests are often difficult to carry out, and many elusive
species are missed or only reported from interviews with local people. Camera traps offer a …

This report summarizes a decade of morphological and molecular research on the
phylogenetic relationships of didelphid marsupials (opossums), a substantially intact …

The current literature on marsupial phylogenetics includes numerous studies based on
analyses of morphological data with limited sampling of Recent and fossil taxa, and many …

Living opossums (Didelphidae) comprise 125 species in 18 genera and 4 subfamilies. This
synopsis lists all the didelphid taxa (subfamilies, tribes, genera, subgenera, and species) …

In this study I provide a phylogenetic hypothesis for the tribe Oryzomyini that can be used to
understand the diversification and evolution of this group of rodents and to revise the current …

Reliable information on abundance of the ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) is scarce. We
conducted the first camera-trap study in the northern part of the Pantanal wetlands of Brazil …

Tropical forests harbour the highest levels of terrestrial biodiversity and represent some of
the most complex ecosystems on Earth, with a significant portion of this diversity above …

Aim Numerous geographical information system (GIS)‐based techniques for estimating a
species' potential geographical distribution now exist. While a species' potential distribution …