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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

On species concepts, species delimitation criteria, taxonomy committees, and biases: A response to Lima (2022a)

A Aleixo - Ornithology Research, 2023 - Springer
In a recent commentary, Lima (Ornithol Res 30: 225–228,) claims that the Brazilian
Ornithological Records Committee (CBRO) bases its species ranking decisions on a …

Cryptic patterns of diversification of a widespread Amazonian Woodcreeper species complex (Aves: Dendrocolaptidae) inferred from multilocus phylogenetic analysis …

T Sousa-Neves, A Aleixo, F Sequeira - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Inferring evolutionary relationships between recently diverged taxa is still challenging,
especially taking into account the likely occurrence of incomplete lineage sorting and/or …

Biogeography and spatio-temporal diversification of Selenidera and Andigena Toucans (Aves: Ramphastidae)

HL Lutz, JD Weckstein, JSL Patané, JM Bates… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Andean uplift, Plio-Pleistocene climatic fluctuation, and river dynamics in the
Amazon basin have all been implicated in the diversification of the South American …

Molecular systematics, species limits, and diversification of the genus Dendrocolaptes (Aves: Furnariidae): Insights on biotic exchanges between dry and humid forest …

A Santana, SM Silva, R Batista… - Journal of Zoological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The true diversity and interspecific limits in the Neotropical endemic avian genus
Dendrocolaptes (Furnariidae) remain a highly controversial subject, with previous genus …

An elevational phylogeographic diversity gradient in Neotropical birds is decoupled from speciation rates

KS Wacker, BM Winger - The American Naturalist, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
A key question about macroevolutionary speciation rates is whether they are controlled by
microevolutionary processes operating at the population level. For example, does spatial …

Avian extinctions induced by the oldest Amazonian hydropower mega dam: evidence from museum collections and sighting data spanning 172 years

LMP Henriques, S Dantas, LB Santos, AS Bueno… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Hydroelectric dams represent an emergent threat to lowland tropical forest biodiversity.
Despite the large number of operational, under-construction, and planned hydroelectric …