A new species of ground beetle, Pelmatellus amicorum Delgado and Ruiz-Tapiador (Coleoptera: Carabidae), from the Andean Altiplano of Peru is described. The state of knowledge of the genus and the relationship of the new ...

Vochysia pongo-qonecensis is described and illustrated. It occurs in the southern Peruvian pre-montane forests of the Andean-Amazonian piedmont. This species is placed in Vochysia sect. Ciliantha subsect. Micranthae. It ...

Capsicum regale Barboza & Bohs, sp. nov., a new species from the tropical wet forests of the eastern Andean slopes (Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru) is described and illustrated. This new species belongs to the Andean clade ...

We studied the species richness and two indices of abundance of medium-sizedmammals in areas with Andean forest and Andean alder (Alnus acuminata)reforestations in a reserve at the Central Andes of Colombia. Since reforested ...

We introduce the FunAndes database, a compilation of functional trait data for the Andean flora spanning six countries. FunAndes contains data on 24 traits across 2,694 taxa, for a total of 105,466 entries. The database ...

Habitat partitioning is considered one of the main mechanisms of coexistence among small mammals. This is especially evident in arid environments where resources are particularly scarce. Habitat characteristics such as ...

Aim To identify the bioclimatic niche of the endangered Andean cat (Leopardus jacobita), one of the rarest and least known felids in the world, by developing a species distribution model. Location South America, High Andes ...