Since the recognition of hantavirus as the agent responsible for haemorrhagic fever in
Eurasia in the 1970s and, 20 years later, the descovery of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome …

A wide range of evidences indicate climate change as one the greatest threats to
biodiversity in the 21st century. The impacts of these changes, which may have already …

Abstract Background The Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) is the most important
genetic marker to study patterns of adaptive genetic variation determining pathogen …

Fragment size, isolation, and matrix properties have received considerable attention as
predictors of species richness, abundance, and composition in habitat patches. However …

Years of fire suppression, decreases in herbivores, and global climate change have led to
shifts in savannas worldwide. Natural open vegetation such as grasslands and shrublands …

Across the planet, high-intensity farming has transformed native vegetation into
monocultures, decreasing biodiversity on a landscape scale. Yet landscape-scale changes …

Abstract According to the Carnaval-Moritz (CM) model of Pleistocene refugia, during the Last
Glacial Maximum, forested areas of the Atlantic Forest (AF) were restricted to isolated refugia …

One hundred and eighty specimens of sigmodontine rodents living in sympatric conditions
were collected in the Atlantic Forest in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (25 Akodon cursor …

We tested the hypothesis that microhabitat variables, abundance of terrestrial rodents, and
microhabitat selection patterns of terrestrial rodents vary between the cool-dry and warm-wet …

Background The total amount of native vegetation is an important property of fragmented
landscapes and is known to exert a strong influence on population and metapopulation …