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Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum: Recent submissions
Now showing items 381-391 of 391
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A new termite bug in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Hemiptera, Termitaphididae)
(Pensoft Publishers, 2009-10-23)A new species of the termite bug genus Termitaradus Myers (Aradoidea: Termitaphididae) is described and figured based on a single female preserved in Early Miocene (Burdigalian) amber from the Dominican Republic. Termitaradus ... -
Neanderthal extinction by competitive exclusion
(Public Library of Science, 2008-12-24)Background Despite a long history of investigation, considerable debate revolves around whether Neanderthals became extinct because of climate change or competition with anatomically modern humans (AMH). Methodology/Principal ... -
Constructing check-lists and avifauna-wide reviews: Mexican bird taxonomy revisited
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Shifting Global Invasive Potential of European Plants with Climate Change
(Public Library of Science, 2008-06-18)Global climate change and invasions by nonnative species rank among the top concerns for agents of biological loss in coming decades. Although each of these themes has seen considerable attention in the modeling and ... -
Shifting suitability for malaria vectors across Africa with warming climates
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2009-05-10)Background Climates are changing rapidly, producing warm climate conditions globally not previously observed in modern history. Malaria is of great concern as a cause of human mortality and morbidity, particularly across ... -
Historical distribution of the extinct tropical seal, Monachus tropicalis (Carnivora: Phocidae)
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Geographic variation in size and coloration in the Turdus poliocephalus complex: A first review of species limits
(Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas, 2007-09-12)Among the most dramatically variable of bird species under the traditional polytypic ‘biological' species concept is Turdus poliocephalus Latham 1801, which is distributed across parts of Southeast Asia and Oceania. This ... -
Frogs of the genus Eleutherodactylus (Leptodactylidae) in the cordillera occidental in Peru with descriptions of three new species
(Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas, 2007-06-21)Three new species of Eleutherodactylus are described from the Río Zaña Valley in the Pacific versant of the Cordillera Occidental in the Departamento de Cajamarca, Peru. One of the species is a member of the Eleutherodactylus ... -
New distributional modelling approaches for gap analysis
(Cambridge University Press, 2003-02)Synthetic products based on biodiversity information such as gap analysis depend critically on accurate models of species' geographic distributions that simultaneously minimize error in both overprediction and omission. ... -
Taxonomy: impediment or expedient
(AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE, 2004-08-20)