Polyploidization has been documented across a wide range of vertebrates. Gene duplication could promote better adaptation to environmental changes and to chronic injury or stress. We investigated if genotoxic and cytotoxic ...

Deforestation and land-cover changes have transformed the Argentinian Dry Chaco into a mosaic dominated by crops and ranch fields. Although land-use activities are seen as one of the major driving forces of biodiversity ...

Evolutionary biologists have not paid as extensive attention to nongenetic compo-nents of variation as they have done to genetic variation of phenotypic traits. Gen-erally, nongenetic components are grouped in categories ...

Pampean region agroecosystems are devoted to agricultural and farming activities, but in the crop field matrix there are relicts of remnant natural habitats. Poultry farms mainly harbour commensal species as house mice and ...

Este texto apresenta os principais resultados do estudo de caso do agroecossistema gerido por seu Paulo e dona Zefinha no município de Remígio, Paraíba, com emprego do método Lume de análise econômico-ecológica de ...

Recent studies have characterized the influence of agroecosystems on biodiversity. However, a set of components associated with the management of these areas is still neglected in landscape-level studies, especially in ...