Tropical land-use change is the key driver of the global extinction crisis. Understanding of
the effects of land-use change on biodiversity depends on using a method that can …

Before environmental DNA (eDNA) can establish itself as a robust tool for biodiversity
monitoring, comparison with existing approaches is necessary, yet is lacking for terrestrial …

Innovative techniques, such as environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding, are now
promoting broader biodiversity monitoring at unprecedented scales, because of the …

Forest fragmentation and defaunation are considered the main drivers of biodiversity loss,
yet the synergistic effects of landscape changes and biotic interactions on assemblage …

South America holds 30% of the world's avifauna, with the Atlantic Forest representing one
of the richest regions of the Neotropics. Here we have compiled a data set on Brazilian …

Measures of traits are the basis of functional biological diversity. Numerous works consider
mean species‐level measures of traits while ignoring individual variance within species …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling is a relatively new technique that has been employed
in biodiversity surveys around the world. Environmental DNA can be an effective, non …

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 …

Rodents, a diverse, globally distributed and ecologically important order of mammals are
nevertheless important reservoirs of known and novel zoonotic pathogens. Ongoing …

Improving detection probabilities for rare species is critical when assessing presence or
habitat associations. Our goal was to create a new small mammal trap** protocol that …