New mining concessions could severely decrease biodiversity and ecosystem services in Ecuador

BA Roy, M Zorrilla, L Endara… - Tropical …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Ecuador has among the world's highest biodiversity, despite being a tiny fraction of the
world's land area. The threat of extinction for some of this biodiversity has dramatically …

[HTML][HTML] Coronavirus en Ecuador: una opinión desde la Academia

S Guerrero - LA GRANJA. Revista de Ciencias de la Vida, 2020 - scielo.senescyt.gob.ec
Esta es la tercera vez que un coronavirus zoonótico ha podido infectar diversas poblaciones
humanas. Este nuevo virus, clasificado como SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory …

[PDF][PDF] Reptiles of Ecuador: a resource-rich portal, with a dynamic checklist and photographic guides

O Torres-Carvajal… - Amphibian & …, 2019 - amphibian-reptile-conservation.org
With 477 species of non-avian reptiles within an area of 283,561 km2, Ecuador has the
highest density of reptile species richness among megadiverse countries in the world. This …

[HTML][HTML] Shadows in the forest: Uncovering unusual colouration records in mammals from the Ecuadorian Tropical Andes

E Viteri-Basso, JPR Puig, C Reyes-Puig… - Biodiversity Data …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Variations in colouration patterns have been reported in numerous wildlife species,
particularly birds. However, the increased use of camera traps for wildlife monitoring has …

Feeding ecology of the Terciopelo pit viper snake (Bothrops asper) in Ecuador

A Loaiza-Lange, D Székely, O Torres-Carvajal… - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Thoroughly documenting prey items and diet composition is crucial for understanding a
predator's role in the ecosystem. In gape restricted predators, such as snakes, documenting …

[HTML][HTML] New records and estimation of the potential distribution of the stump-tailed porcupine Coendou rufescens

C Narváez-Romero, C Reyes-Puig, D Valle, J Brito - Therya, 2018 - scielo.org.mx
The stump-tailed porcupine (Coendou rufescens) is a medium-sized species that inhabits
subtropical, temperate and High-Andean forests of the northern Andes, at 800 to 3,650 m …

Assessment of habitat connectivity in a highly fragmented ecosystem: The seasonal tropical dry forest in Ecuador

CA Rivas, J Guerrero‐Casado… - Applied Vegetation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Context Connectivity is a parameter that plays a fundamental role in highly fragmented
ecosystems, such as the seasonal tropical dry forest. Objectives The objective of this …

[HTML][HTML] Diet of the short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) in the Antisana highlands, Ecuador

H Cadena-Ortiz, MF Solórzano, M Noboa, J Brito - Huitzil, 2019 - scielo.org.mx
The knowledge of the diet of a species is an important element to understand its natural
history and ecology, the information about Ecuadorian owls' diet increases progressively …

Tent‐roosting may have driven the evolution of yellow skin coloration in Stenodermatinae bats

I Galván, JC Vargas‐Mena… - Journal of Zoological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The recent discovery of the first mammal that deposits significant amounts of carotenoid
pigments in the skin (the Honduran white bat Ectophylla alba) has highlighted the presence …

Movement and habitat use of three high Andean rodent species (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) in Andean páramos of Ecuador

A Villarreal, R Zambrano-Cevallos, J Brito… - Neotropical …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The movements and habitat use of three species of Sigmodontine rodents (Akodon mollis,
Phyllotis haggard and Thomasomys paramorum) from the high Andes of Ecuador were …