A5085201495- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Rabies epidemiology and control
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Trypanosoma species research and implications
- Research Data Management Practices
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
2011-2022
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
2022
Knowledge on biodiversity is fundamental for conservation strategies. The Brazilian Pampa region, located in subtropical southern Brazil, neglected terms of conservation, and knowledge its fragmented. We aim to answer the question: how many, which, species occur Pampa? In a collaborative effort, we built lists plants, animals, bacteria, fungi that Pampa. included information distribution patterns, main habitat types, status. Our study resulted referenced totaling 12,503 (12,854 taxa, when...
Triatominae, commonly known as kissing bugs, are a group of approximately 150 species hematophagous reduviids, some which vectors Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent Chagas disease. Distributional patterns triatomines have been studied based on macroecological and historical biogeographic approaches, but definition distributional areas endemism yet to be defined objective criteria. We used two methods identify units in Triatominae: endemicity analysis an optimality criterion (NDM/VNDM...
The geographic distribution of a species is limited by many factors, including its ecological and evolutionary history. Species modeling has been used to evaluate the effects climate other variables on measure degree niche similarity among co-occurring species. Our goal in this study was compare distributions niches four closely related lined ground snakes, Lygophis dilepis, L. flavifrenatus, meridionalis, paucidens. These are distributed along South American Dry Diagonal. We found that...
We provide two new records of Bothropoides diporus for Neuquén province, northern Patagonia, Argentina. Both are the second and third this species in province. One these records, from slope Auca Mahuida Mountain, extends approximately 120 km to north present known geographic distribution
We assessed the geographic distribution of amphibians and reptiles occurring in Uruguayan Savanna ecoregion (USE) to find shared patterns, order identify chorotypes which could inform conflicting regionalization Pampa province. compiled nearly 83,000 records complete distributions 58 species 86 with occurrence throughout South America. Endemicity analysis (NDM/VNDM) was implemented patterns (chorotypes). described general diversity for terms endemic degree other ecoregions. have found five...
Euscarthmus pygmy-tyrants include two species of tiny passerines that inhabit semi-open landscapes in South America. One these, meloryphus is a taxonomic complex comprising three recognized subspecies for which previously proposed splits and lumps were not founded on proper analysis. We assessed morphology (morphometrics plumage), distribution models, vocalizations substantial dataset with the aim evaluating limits within E. complex. Our results support recognition species, widespread from...
Plazi's TreatmentBank is a research infrastructure and partner of the recent European Union-funded Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library (BiCIKL) project to provide single knowledge portal open, interlinked machine-readable, findable, accessible, interoperable reusable (FAIR) data. Plazi liberating published biodiversity data that trapped in so-called flat formats, such as portable document format (PDF), increase its FAIRness. This can pose variety challenges for both mining...
One of the main challenges in biodiversity data reusability is finding ways to transform what provided research publications into different and reusable formats, following FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles (Agosti Egloff 2009). Most often, restricted text, figures tables so-called “PDF prison” or other flat formats. Plazi's infrastructure workflow (Guidoti et al. 2021) such formats that can then be exported linked across platforms, as Global Biodiversity...
Plazi is a Swiss non-governmental organization dedicated to the liberation of data imprisoned in flat, dead-end formats such as PDFs. In process, therein annotated and exported various formats, following field-specific standards, facilitating free access reutilization by several other service providers end-users. This mining enhancement process allows for rediscovery known biodiversity since knowledge on taxa published into an ever-growing corpus papers, chapters books, inaccessible...