Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna

CC Nogueira, AJS Argôlo, V Arzamendia… - South American Journal …, 2019‏ - BioOne
Accurate and detailed species distribution maps are fundamental for documenting and
interpreting biological diversity. For snakes, an ecologically diverse group of reptiles …

The combined influence of riverine barriers and flooding gradients on biogeographical patterns for amphibians and squamates in south‐eastern Amazonia

LJCL Moraes, D Pavan, MC Barros… - Journal of …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Our aim was to investigate how the distance to water (flooding gradients) and riverine
barriers (Tapajós and Jamanxim rivers) influence the distributional patterns of amphibian …

The Western Amazonian richness gradient for squamate reptiles: Are there really fewer snakes and lizards in southwestern Amazonian lowlands?

DL Rabosky, R von May, MC Grundler… - Diversity, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
The lowland rainforests of the Amazon basin harbor some of the most species-rich reptile
communities on Earth. However, there is considerable heterogeneity among climatically …

[HTML][HTML] The State-of-the-Art of the Humoral Memory Response to Snakebites: Insights from the Yanomami Population

SR Jati, TA dos Anjos Martins, AM Rocha… - Toxins, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Snakebite envenomation (SBE)-induced immunity refers to individuals who have been
previously bitten by a snake and developed a protective immune response against …

Limitations to the use of species-distribution models for environmental-impact assessments in the Amazon

LRA Carneiro, AP Lima, RB Machado… - PLoS One, 2016‏ - journals.plos.org
Species-distribution models (SDM) are tools with potential to inform environmental-impact
studies (EIA). However, they are not always appropriate and may result in improper and …

Contrasting patterns of gene flow for Amazonian snakes that actively forage and those that wait in ambush

R De Fraga, AP Lima, WE Magnusson… - Journal of …, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract Knowledge of genetic structure, geographic distance and environmental
heterogeneity can be used to identify environmental features and natural history traits that …

Different environmental gradients affect different measures of snake β-diversity in the Amazon rainforests

R de Fraga, M Ferrão, AJ Stow, WE Magnusson… - PeerJ, 2018‏ - peerj.com
Mechanisms generating and maintaining biodiversity at regional scales may be evaluated
by quantifying β-diversity along environmental gradients. Differences in assemblages result …

Amphibians and reptiles from a protected area in western Brazilian Amazonia (Reserva Extrativista do Baixo Juruá)

LJCL Moraes, RN Rainha, FP Werneck… - Papéis Avulsos de …, 2022‏ - SciELO Brasil
Sampling gaps across the logistically challenging and extremely biodiverse Amazonia
largely hamper our understanding of broad-scale amphibian and reptile diversity patterns in …

Scale-dependent estimates of niche overlap and environmental effects on two sister species of Neotropical snakes

TA Correa Nogueira, WE Ayala, JS Dayrell… - … on Neotropical Fauna …, 2019‏ - Taylor & Francis
Detecting ecological patterns is highly dependent on the spatial scale of the analysis.
However, the importance of scale has been poorly explored when testing environmental …

Accounting for imperfect detection when estimating species‐area relationships and beta‐diversity

CD Noble, CA Peres, JJ Gilroy - Ecology and Evolution, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Ecologists have historically quantified fundamental biodiversity patterns, including species‐
area relationships (SARs) and beta diversity, using observed species counts. However …