Annotated checklist of the birds of Brazil by the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee/Lista comentada das aves do Brasil pelo Comitê Brasileiro de Registros …

VQ de Piacentini, A Aleixo, CE Agne… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Since 2005, the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee (CBRO) has published
updated checklists of Brazilian birds almost every year. Herein, we present a completely …

Amazonia through time: Andean uplift, climate change, landscape evolution, and biodiversity

C Hoorn, FP Wesselingh, H Ter Steege, MA Bermudez… - science, 2010 - science.org
The Amazonian rainforest is arguably the most species-rich terrestrial ecosystem in the
world, yet the timing of the origin and evolutionary causes of this diversity are a matter of …

The dual role of Amazonian rivers in the generation and maintenance of avian diversity

LN Naka, RT Brumfield - Science advances, 2018 - science.org
The Amazon River and its major tributaries delimit the distributions of hundreds of terrestrial
taxa. It remains unclear whether river-bounded distributions and taxon replacements reflect …

Estimating the basic reproductive number from viral sequence data

T Stadler, R Kouyos, V von Wyl, S Yerly… - Molecular biology …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Epidemiological processes leave a fingerprint in the pattern of genetic structure of virus
populations. Here, we provide a new method to infer epidemiological parameters directly …

Evolution of angiosperm seed disperser mutualisms: the timing of origins and their consequences for coevolutionary interactions between angiosperms and frugivores

O Eriksson - Biological Reviews, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The origins of interactions between angiosperms and fruit‐eating seed dispersers have
attracted much attention following a seminal paper on this topic by T iffney (1984). This …

Andean uplift promotes lowland speciation through vicariance and dispersal in Dendrocincla woodcreepers

JT Weir, M Price - Molecular Ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Andean uplift contributed importantly to the build‐up of high Neotropical diversity. Final uplift
of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia separated once‐contiguous lowland faunas east and …

Multi-character taxonomic review, systematics, and biogeography of the Black-capped/Tawny-bellied Screech Owl (Megascops atricapilla-M. watsonii) complex …

SM Dantas, JD Weckstein, J Bates, JN Oliveira… - Zootaxa, 2021 - biotaxa.org
Megascops is the most species-rich owl genus in the New World, with 21 species currently
recognized. Phylogenetic relationships within this genus are notoriously difficult to establish …

Phylogeography of the chestnut‐tailed antbird (Myrmeciza hemimelaena) clarifies the role of rivers in Amazonian biogeography

AM Fernandes, M Wink, A Aleixo - Journal of Biogeography, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We examined patterns of spatial and temporal diversification of the Amazonian endemic
chestnut‐tailed antbird, Mymeciza hemimelaena (Thamnophilidae), to evaluate the …

Multilocus phylogeography of the Wedge-billed Woodcreeper Glyphorynchus spirurus (Aves, Furnariidae) in lowland Amazonia: Widespread cryptic diversity and …

AM Fernandes, J Gonzalez, M Wink, A Aleixo - … phylogenetics and evolution, 2013 - Elsevier
Amazonian rivers function as important barriers to dispersal of Amazonian birds. Studying
population genetics of lineages separated by rivers may help us to uncover the dynamics of …

Cryptic speciation in the white-shouldered antshrike (Thamnophilus aethiops, Aves–Thamnophilidae): The tale of a transcontinental radiation across rivers in lowland …

G Thom, A Aleixo - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2015 - Elsevier
The growing knowledge on paleogeography and the recent applications of molecular
biology and phylogeography to the study of the Amazonian biota have provided a framework …