Background Covering about 2 Mio. km 2 by the arrival of the first European settlers, the
Cerrado savannas are second in extent only to Amazonian forests amongst the South …

Habitat loss and fragmentation are the primary causes of global population decline of
amphibians and reptiles. In Brazil, that hosts an extraordinary herpetofaunal richness …

Abstract The Pan-Himalayan biogeographic domain is a significant region for biodiversity
conservation and climate resilience. This region has both tropical and extratropical flora and …

Map** biodiversity patterns across taxa and environments is crucial to address the
evolutionary and ecological dimensions of species distribution, suggesting areas of …

The Cerrado biome is one of the global hotspots of biodiversity, and non-volant small
mammals represent a significant portion of Cerrado species richness (45%) and endemism …

Abstract Systematic revisions of South American marsupials have contributed to our
knowledge about genus and species diversity in the last decades, including studies of the …

Species distribution models (SDMs), which relate recorded observations (presences) and
absences or background points to environmental characteristics, are powerful tools used to …

Abstract The Western Ghats (WG) mountain chain in peninsular India is a global biodiversity
hotspot, one in which patterns of phylogenetic diversity and endemism remain to be …

Aim To investigate the influence of ecological factors, geologic and climatic history on
current diversity patterns of bat communities. We predicted that (i) our three different …

The true diversity and interspecific limits in the Neotropical endemic avian genus
Dendrocolaptes (Furnariidae) remain a highly controversial subject, with previous genus …