In the last decades, there has been a considerable increase in literature concerning
ecological studies employing bait traps to capture butterflies. The growing interest in this …

Mountains are among the most powerful natural gradients for testing ecological and
evolutionary responses of biota to environmental influences because differences in climate …

Caves are very important roosts for bats. Neotropical countries, like Brazil, harbor both high
bat species richness and abundance of underground cavities. The Caatinga drylands in …

Understanding the seasonal community structures of highly diverse animal taxa and how
they interact with plants is necessary for efficient conservation efforts such as rapid …

Plant-pollinator interactions are known to vary across time, both in terms of species
composition and the associations between partner species. However, less is known about …

The specific factors that influence spatial community or population dynamics are often
elusive, and even less known is the impact of tropical urban landscapes on diverse species …

We provide the first description of the effects of local vegetation and landscape structure on
the fruit-feeding butterfly community of a natural archipelago of montane rainforest islands in …

Tropical dry forests are among the most diverse and threatened habitats in the world, yet
they are rarely protected and remain poorly studied. In Brazil, dry forests are naturally …

Highly seasonal conditions of tropical dry forests determine the temporal patterns of insect
abundance. However, density-independent factors such as natural disturbances can …

Despite being one of the groups most well studied in Brazil, the butterfly fauna of
northeastern Brazil, especially north of the mouth of São Francisco River, is poorly known …