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Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum: Recent submissions
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Accessible areas in ecological niche comparisons of invasive species: Recognized but still overlooked
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017-04-27)Understanding biological invasions is crucial for their control and prevention. Specially, establishing whether invasive species operate within the constraint of conservative ecological niches, or if niche shifts occur at ... -
The amphibians and reptiles of Mindanao Island, southern Philippines, II: the herpetofauna of northeast Mindanao and adjacent islands
(Pensoft Publishers, 2016-10-17)We summarize all available amphibian and reptile species distribution data from the northeast Mindanao faunal region, including small islands associated with this subcenter of endemic vertebrate biodiversity. Together with ... -
Tectonic collision and uplift of Wallacea triggered the global songbird radiation
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016-08-30)Songbirds (oscine passerines) are the most species-rich and cosmopolitan bird group, comprising almost half of global avian diversity. Songbirds originated in Australia, but the evolutionary trajectory from a single species ... -
Advances in biodiversity: metagenomics and the unveiling of biological dark matter
(BioMed Central, 2015-09-09)BACKGROUND: Efforts to harmonize genomic data standards used by the biodiversity and metagenomic research communities have shown that prokaryotic data cannot be understood or represented in a traditional, classical ... -
An elusive new species of Marsupial Frog (Anura: Hemiphractidae: Gastrotheca) from the Andes of northern Peru
(University of São Paulo, 2013)A new species of marsupial frog, genus Gastrotheca, is described from high-elevation grasslands in the Andes in Región Amazonas in northern Peru, where even calling males are well hidden in deep moss. The new species is ... -
Scinax cruentommus (Anura: Hylidae) in the upper Rio Negro drainage, Amazonas state, Brazil, with the redescription of its advertisement call
(University of São Paulo, 2015)Scinax cruentommus (Anura: Hylidae) in the upper Rio Negro drainage, Amazonas state, Brazil, with the redescription of its advertisement call. We provide the first record for Scinax cruentommus from the upper Rio Negro, ... -
Archaeology and Language: The Indo-Iranians
(University of Chicago Press, 2002-02)This review of recent archaeological work in Central Asia and Eurasia attempts to trace and date the movements of the IndoIraniansspeakers of languages of the eastern branch of ProtoIndoEuropean that later split into the ... -
Multiregional Emergence of Mobile Pastoralism and Nonuniform Institutional Complexity across Eurasia
(University of Chicago Press, 2010-12)In this article I present a new archaeological synthesis concerning the earliest formation of mobile pastoralist economies across central Eurasia. I argue that Eurasian steppe pastoralism developed along distinct local ... -
Taxonomic status and redescription of Flectonotus ulei (Anura: Hemiphractidae), with a key for species of Fritziana
(Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia, 2014-08)Based on preserved specimens from the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Flectonotus ulei Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926 is resurrected from its synonymy with Flectonotus fissilis (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920) and is redescribed. ... -
Diversity of Wild Palms (Arecaceae) in the Republic of Benin: Finding the Gaps in the National Inventory Combining Field and Digital Accessible Knowledge
(University of Kansas, 2015)Despite many efforts by researchers worldwide to assess the biodiversity of plant groups, many locations on Earth remain not well surveyed and data-deprivation biases often occur. Robust estimates of inventory completeness ... -
The Eurasian invasion: phylogenomic data reveal multiple Southeast Asian origins for Indian Dragon Lizards
(BioMed Central, 2016-02-19)Background: The Indian Tectonic Plate split from Gondwanaland approximately 120 MYA and set the Indian subcontinent on a ~ 100 million year collision course with Eurasia. Many phylogenetic studies have demonstrated the ... -
Macroevolution of hyperdiverse flightless beetles reflects the complex geological history of the Sunda Arc
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016-01-08)The Sunda Arc forms an almost continuous chain of islands and thus a potential dispersal corridor between mainland Southeast Asia and Melanesia. However, the Sunda Islands have rather different geological histories, which ... -
Mosaic patterns of diversification dynamics following the colonization of Melanesian islands
(Nature Publishing Group, 2015-11-03)The fate of newly settled dispersers on freshly colonized oceanic islands is a central theme of island biogeography. The emergence of increasingly sophisticated methods of macroevolutionary pattern inference paves the way ... -
A new possibly parthenogenic species of Lynceus from Canada (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Laevicaudata), with key to the Nearctic female Laevicaudata
(Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, 2015-12-21)A new species of laevicaudatan branchiopod, Lynceus grandirostris, is described. This new species is so far known only from a single locality near Yellowknife, Canada, and is morphologically distinguished from all other ... -
First Description of the Nest and Eggs of the Moss-Backed Tanager (Buthraupis [Bangsia] Edwardsi)
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Voice, plumage and natural history of Anthony's Nightjar (Caprimulgus anthonyi)
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AVIAN SPECIATION IN THE PANTEPUI: THE CASE OF THE RORAIMAN ANTBIRD (PERCNOSTOLA [SCHISTOCICHLA] ‘‘LEUCOSTIGMA’’ SATURATA)
(Central Ornithology Publication Office, 2005-05)We document the first records for Guyana of Roraiman Antbird (Percnostola [Schistocichla] “leucostigma” saturata), an endemic of the tepui highlands of southeastern Venezuela, northern Brazil and western Guyana. This form ... -
Range Expansion of the Bronzed Cowbird with the First Missouri Record
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Taxonomy and Natural History of Nyctiphrynus rosenbergi (Caprimulgidae)
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Origins of Late-Breeding Nomadic Sedge Wrens in North America: Limitations and Potential of Hydrogen-Isotope Analyses of Soft Tissue
(Central Ornithology Publication Office, 2009-02)The nomadic Sedge Wren (Cistothorus platensis) breeds primarily in mesic grasslands in north-central North America. Following breeding in these regions from late May to early July, however, the species then “appears” en ...