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Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Inventory statistics meet big data: complications for estimating numbers of species
(PeerJ, 2020-05-13)We point out complications inherent in biodiversity inventory metrics when applied to large-scale datasets. The number of units of inventory effort (e.g., days of inventory effort) in which a species is detected saturates, ... -
Mouthpart homologies and life habits of Mesozoic long-proboscid scorpionflies
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2020-03-04)Mesozoic long-proboscid scorpionflies (Mesopsychoidea) provide important clues to ancient plant-pollinator interactions. Among them, the family Aneuretopsychidae is especially important because its mouthparts are vital to ... -
Diversity, above-ground biomass, and vegetation patterns in a tropical dry forest in Kimbi-Fungom National Park, Cameroon
(Elsevier, 2020-01-31)Research highlights This study is one of few detailed analyses of plant diversity and vegetation patterns in African dry forests. We established permanent plots to characterize plant diversity, above-ground biomass, and ... -
Crustacean remains from the Yuka mammoth raise questions about non-analogue freshwater communities in the Beringian region during the Pleistocene
(Nature Research, 2020-01-21)Frozen permafrost Pleistocene mammal carcasses with soft tissue remains are subject to intensive study and help elucidate the palaeoenvironment where these animals lived. Here we present an inventory of the freshwater fauna ... -
Eocene metatherians from Anatolia illuminate the assembly of an island fauna during Deep Time
(Public Library of Science, 2018-11-14)Island biotas have disproportionately influenced the history and development of evolutionary biology, but understanding their genesis and evolution across geological timescales has been hindered by a poor fossil record. ... -
Advertisement calls and DNA sequences reveal a new species of Scinax (Anura: Hylidae) on the Pacific lowlands of Ecuador
(Public Library of Science, 2018-09-26)Scinax is a speciose genus of Neotropical hylid frogs. We describe a new species from western Ecuador (elevations between 0 and 1207 m) using morphology, vocalizations, and DNA sequences. We also present a new phylogeny ... -
Insight on the Ancient Arabian Horse from North Arabian Petroglyphs
(Centre Français d’Archéologie et de Sciences Sociales de Sanaa, 2017)The origin of the Arabian horse breed has been the topic of much speculation. The earliest clear depictions of horses with Arabian attributes are in Egyptian New Kingdom tomb art, although they were likely first obtained ... -
Eocene metatherians from Anatolia illuminate the assembly of an island fauna during Deep Time
(Public Library of Science, 2018-11-14)Island biotas have disproportionately influenced the history and development of evolutionary biology, but understanding their genesis and evolution across geological timescales has been hindered by a poor fossil record. ... -
Coprolites in the Ravens Throat River Lagerstätte of northwestern Canada: implications for the middle Cambrian food web
(Society for Sedimentary Geology, 2018-04-03)The Rockslide Formation (middle Cambrian, Drumian, Bolaspidella Zone) of the Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada, hosts the Ravens Throat River Lagerstätte, which consists of two, 1-m thick intervals of greenish, ... -
Summary results of the 2014-2015 DARPA Chikungunya challenge
(BioMed Central, 2018-05-30)BACKGROUND: Emerging pathogens such as Zika, chikungunya, Ebola, and dengue viruses are serious threats to national and global health security. Accurate forecasts of emerging epidemics and their severity are critical to ... -
The Status and Distribution of Birds in Missouri
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The Hylid Frogs of Middle America
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Population genetic evidence for sex-specific dispersal in an inbred social spider
(Wiley, 2016-07)Dispersal in most group-living species ensures gene flow among groups, but in cooperative social spiders, juvenile dispersal is suppressed and colonies are highly inbred. It has been suggested that such inbred sociality ... -
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 ...