Although hypotheses are not always necessary, we expect their continued and increased use will help our fields move toward greater understanding, reproducibility, prediction, and effective conservation of nature.
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Tipo de Publicación: Ecología
Not all gone: the rediscovery of Jaguar (Carnivora: Felidae: Panthera onca) and records of threatened monkeys (Primates: Mammalia) in the Magdalena River Valley of Caldas Department in Colombia, a call for their conservation
Afer 21 years of not having reliable records of Jaguars in the Caldas department, this work renews the hope for conserving this iconic species in the territory and is perhaps the last opportunity to take conservation actions to prevent the total local extinction of Jaguar in the department and C. versicolor.
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Diet of Andean bear in the Tama National Natural Park, Colombia
The objective of this work was to assess Andean bears´ diet and seasonality in order to contribute to the knowledge, management, and conservation of the species in northeastern Colombia
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Environmental Drivers and Distribution Patterns of Carnivoran Assemblages (Mammalia: Carnivora) in the Americas: Past to Present
Ecological niche modeling and macroecological approach in order to assess whether constraints patterns in carnivoran richness and composition structures in replicated assemblages through time and space should reflect environmental filtering through ecological niche constraints from the Last Inter-glacial (LIG), Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the present (C) time
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Survival analysis of two endemic lizard species before, during and after a rat eradication attempt on Desecheo Island, Puerto Rico
The combination of studies such as these can help managers make informed decisions about the potential negative impacts of rodenticides used during eradication operations versus the expected positive impact to native biota from the permanent removal of threats posed by invasive species.
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Not eating alone: Andean bear time patterns and potential social scavenging behaviors
Se reporto el primer registro potencial de comportamientos sociales de tres adultos de Oso Andino, carroñando (scavenging) en el mismo cadáver a la misma hora, sin presentar comportamientos de agresividad / antagonismo entre los tres individuos. El conocimiento de los comportamientos de oso Andino en vida silvestre aún es incipiente o desconocido. Las observaciones aportan al conocimiento de la...
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Food habits of puma (Puma concolor) in the Andean areas of Tamá National Natural Park and its buffer zone, Colombia
Even though the puma (Puma concolor) is the second largest felid in America and is widely distributed in both the continent and in Colombia. Knowledge about its food habits in many areas of the Neotropics, especially in the highlands, is still limited. We surveyed nine localities in Tamá NNP (National Natural Park) and its buffer zone. This...
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Multi‑criteria spatial identification of carnivore conservation areas under data scarcity and conflict: a jaguar case study in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
Knowledge about carnivore species in data-poor countries, such as Colombia, is scarce which has the potential to result in poor landscape planning decisions. We present a multi-criteria spatial identification tool for conservation and management areas, focused on Jaguars (Panthera onca) in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in northern Colombia
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Comportamiento de interaccion y vocalización del Tapir centroamericano Tapirus bairdii en Talamanca, Costa Rica
El Tapir centro-americano es considerado en peligro de extinción a nivel global, sin embargo la mayoría de los aspectos de su ecología e historia natural aun son desconocidos. Este trabajo es considerado como la primer descripción detallada de la vocalización no solo para T. bairdii, sino para tapires en el mundo.
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MINERAL-LICK USE BY CHOLOEPUS HOFFMANNI (PILOSA: MEGALONYCHIDAE) AT LAS CRUCES BIOLOGICAL STATION, COTO BRUS, COSTA RICA
Hasta la fecha, solo existe un registro del consumo de minerales en perezosos (i.e., Choloepus didactylus) en Ecuador. Aquí presentamos el primer registro del consumo mineral para C. hoffmanni en una selva tropical en Costa Rica. Este comportamiento se ha asociado principalmente con procesos de desintoxicación en herbívoros, pero no existe evidencia de tales necesidades en perezosos.
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