Human activities have altered the abundance and distribution of animals, resha**
ecosystems into novel and generally more depauperate configurations. Whereas …

Tropical forest understory birds are declining globally for unknown reasons, indicating an
urgent need to understand the causes. We review and synthesize studies investigating …

Predation is the major cause of avian nest failure, and an important source of natural
selection on life history traits and reproductive behavior. However, little is known about the …

The conversion of natural ecosystems into silvo/agriculture systems has been occurring for
millennia or centuries throughout our planet. While for many carnivores species this …

The threat of invasive species is often intensified in disturbed habitat. To optimize control
programs, it is necessary to understand how degraded habitat influences the behavior of …

Recent efforts to reconstruct the anthropogenic paleozoogeography of introduced
Neotropical mammals in the West Indies provide new analytical foundations for evaluating …

A considerable number of fossil birds from the Cenozoic of Europe belong to taxa whose
extant representatives are only found in the Southern Hemisphere. This study presents the …

Context Nest predation represents the pivotal threat to bird reproduction in disturbed
environments. Although some agricultural systems, such as agroforests, are considered …

Leucism is the lack or reduction in pigmentation in the most or parts of the body, but not in
the eyes and body extremities. It is extremely rare in primates and has never been reported …

The proliferation of native, alien, invasive and domestic species offers enough novel and
abundant food resources for the common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, to potentially …