The S outh A merican continent is composed of several biogeographical regions harbouring
the highest biodiversity on the globe, encompassing five of the world's biodiversity 'hot …

Abstract The eastern-central South American open vegetation biomes occur across an
extensive range of environmental conditions and are organized diagonally including three …

Aim To assess ancient biotic connections between the Amazon Forest (AmF) and the
Atlantic Forest (AtF) based on environmental niche modelling (ENM), palaeobiological, and …

Phylogeographic endemism, the degree to which the history of recently evolved lineages is
spatially restricted, reflects fundamental evolutionary processes such as cryptic divergence …

Abstract Aim Mapping Amazonian biodiversity accurately is a major challenge for integrated
conservation strategies and to study its origins. However, species boundaries and their …

Explaining the origins and evolution of Amazonian biodiversity continues to be an
outstanding question in evolutionary biology. A plethora of mechanisms for promoting …

We studied the intraspecific evolutionary history of the South American Atlantic forest
endemic Xiphorhynchusfuscus (Aves: Dendrocolaptidae) to address questions such as: Was …

Species are impacted by climate change at both ecological and evolutionary time scales.
Studies in northern continents have provided abundant evidence of dramatic shifts in …

Historical climatic refugia predict genetic diversity in lowland endemics of the Brazilian
Atlantic rainforest. Yet, available data reveal distinct biological responses to the Last Glacial …

Climatic oscillations throughout the Pleistocene combined with geological and topographic
complexity resulted in extreme habitat heterogeneity along the Atlantic coast of Brazil …