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Population status of the American crocodile, Crocodylus acutus (Reptilia: Crocodilidae) and the caiman, Caiman crocodilus (Reptilia: Alligatoridae), in the Central Caribbean of Costa Rica

Rev. biol. trop; 67 (6), 2019
Dos especies de cocodrilianos han sido descritas en Costa Rica, el cocodrilo americano, Crocodylus acutus (Cuvier, 1807) y el caimán, Caiman crocodilus (Linnaeus, 1758). En Costa Rica se ha generado información de ambas especies, pero con énfasis en la vertiente del Pacífico, presumiblemente debido a...

New records of three Neotropical arboreal ant species of Camponotus, subgenus Dendromyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) for the southern Amazon, including biological information

Acta amaz; 49 (1), 2019
Camponotus (Formicinae) is the most specious and abundant genus of the family Formicidae. The genus is represented by ants that both forage and nest in the most diverse terrestrial and arboreal environments. Among the arboreal species of Camponotus are those of the subgenus Dendromyrmex. We recorded, for...

Avian Communities in the Amazonian Cangas Vegetation: Biogeographic Affinities, Components of Beta-Diversity and Conservation

An. acad. bras. ciênc; 89 (3,supl), 2017
ABSTRACT The Amazonian cangas is a vegetation type distributed as patches of open vegetation embedded in a matrix of tropical forest and that grows over iron-rich soils in the Serra dos Carajás region. To characterize cangas avifauna, we surveyed birds in eight patches varying from 43 to 1,366 hectares....