Abstract With almost 2,600 species, Rodentia is the most diverse order of mammals. Here,
we provide an overview of changes in our understanding of the systematics of living rodents …

An updated and annotated checklist of mammals occurring in Brazil is presented. A total of
751 native species, distributed in 249 genera, 51 families and 11 orders were recorded to …

Oecomys is a genus of Neotropical arboreal rodents composed of 17 species with diploid
number ranging from 2 n= 54 to 86. Despite this high taxonomic and karyotypic diversity, the …

Neotropical cricetid rodents of the subfamily Sigmodontinae constitute an incredibly diverse
and ubiquitous clade of mammals in South America. In spite of recent advances in …

Atlantic Forest (AF) is amongst the most threatened forests in the world. To decide where
conservation efforts should be focused to preserve species, assessment of ecological and …

Current climate change represents the unprecedented change in weather patterns across
global and regional scales over a short period due to human activity. It is expected to drive …

Background Since 1996, when Vivo questioned how many species of mammals occur in
Brazil, there has been a huge effort to assess this biodiversity. In this contribution, we …

Presentamos una síntesis del conocimiento actual de los roedores de la provincia de
Misiones, Argentina, con énfasis en aspectos taxonómicos, cromosómicos, biogeográficos y …

The Atlantic Forest harbors an impressive diversity of nonvolant small mammals. Despite
having been the target of many ecological and taxonomical studies in the last decades, this …

Sigmodontine rodents are extremely diversified in the Neotropics but their fossil record
remains generally poorly known, especially in Brazil. Here, we examine the assemblage of …