Abstract The Atlantic Forest, the second largest forest in South America and one of the most
biodiverse biomes in the world, is also one of the most threatened and important for …

The diverse, largely Neotropical subtribe Euptychiina is widely regarded as one of the most
taxonomically challenging groups among all butterflies. Over the last two decades …

Primary data, such as geographical records of species, are base-line for conservation status
assessments. For many years, data on Brazil's threatened butterflies (58 taxa (based on …

Functional diversity has been defined as the value, range, distribution, and relative
abundance of the functional traits of individuals that belong to an ecosystem. Thus, the …

Regional species diversity is explained ultimately by speciation, extinction and dispersal.
Here, we estimate dispersal and speciation rates of Neotropical butterflies to propose an …

Background A key challenge for conservation biology in the Neotropics is to understand how
deforestation affects biodiversity at various levels of landscape fragmentation. Addressing …

Species are disappearing worldwide with increasing rates through the time, especially in the
tropics. The human-induced impacts have a pivotal role in the discussion about the cause of …

Mountain ranges are important centers of biodiversity around the world. This high diversity is
the result of the presence of different soil types and underlying bedrock, a variety of micro …

The Amazon forest has the highest biodiversity on Earth. However, information on
Amazonian vertebrate diversity is still deficient and scattered across the published, peer …

Abstract Iguaçu National Park is the second largest (1852.62 km²) protected area in the
Atlantic Forest domain and harbors the largest area of semideciduous seasonal forest in …