Biodiversity inventories are sometimes biased by the various collection methods applied. In the case of the bats, the acoustic monitoring technique has proven to be complementary to conventional sampling. From July 2007 ...

Pedregulho municipality in the far northeastern region of Sao Paulo state has fragments of cerrado vegetation thought to be floristically distinct from other cerrado remmants in the state. In this study, a floristic survey ...

Amphibians are one of the most threatened among the vertebrates species and urgently require conservation protection and planning. The establishment of protected areas (PAs) is one of the most important strategies in ...

Deer species play a key role in processes that maintain ecosystem community structure and composition. However, several of the species are considered at risk of extinction. One of the strategies for their conservation is ...

The fish fauna of eight streams with different land uses of their watersheds (forested and rural areas) in the lower Iguacu River basin was inventoried, in order to evaluate the composition and species richness. The fishes ...

Lauxaniidae is one of the largest Diptera Schizophora families, worldwide in distribution, very common in tropical areas. The family comprises about 1,550 species. Adults may be small to moderately large (2-11 mm), varied ...