Habitat loss due to land-use change is the greatest threat to biodiversity on a global scale,
and agriculture has been the principal driver of change. In Uruguay, the conversion of native …

Los censos de fauna son fundamentales para conservar la biodiversidad de una región o
área determinada. Además, frente a problemáticas de conservación de los ecosistemas …

Tree cultivation is widely stimulated due to the provision of environmental services by
sequestering atmospheric carbon, but forestry is a potential danger to biodiversity, mainly …

Understanding spatiotemporal patterns of roadkill is challenging but essential for mitigation.
Spatiotemporal roadkill patterns are seldom studied for single species at broad scales. We …

Lizards of the Liolaemus wiegmannii group comprise 11 species that are widely distributed
east of the Andes, occurring in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. Here we analyzed a …

Males have traditionally been the focus of study when analyzing traits involved in
communication. However, intraspecific interactions often imply both sexes as signals …

Accepted: 17 April 2022/Available online: November 2022/Printed: December 2022
Abstract. Many ecological questions can be answered only with data from hundreds or even …

We assessed the geographic distribution of amphibians and reptiles occurring in the
Uruguayan Savanna ecoregion (USE) to find shared distribution patterns, in order to identify …

Conservation biology has traditionally applied a range of species-level criteria to prioritize
areas for biodiversity protection. However, intraspecific genetic data can be more effective …

Scavenging by wild snakes is behavior rarely reported, possibly due to the inconspicuous
life history of most species. Herein, we report the first observation of scavenging behavior in …