The Neotropical otter (Lontra longicaudis) should not be considered threatened by the IUCN Red List, according to a new paper in mongabay.com’s open-access journal Tropical Conservation Science.

1. A challenge in applied ecology is understanding the responses of native species to roads, which are ubiquitous drivers of environmental heterogeneity. While most studies highlight their negative ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. In the face of widespread human-induced habitat fragmentation, identification of those ecological characteristics that render some species ...

Researchers working in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical rainforest. Titanoboa, the world's biggest snake, lived in this forest 58 million ...

A recent study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) reveals that, despite their outsized ecological impact, the diversity of ants in the American tropics and their behavior remain ...

The Hymenoptera (ants, bees and wasps) are one of the most species rich and diverse groups of living organisms on the planet. Within insects, the order is probably rivalled in size only by the Diptera ...

Researchers observed and recorded captive neotropical river otters in Brazil and published the first formal description of their vocal repertoire. Neotropical river otters make six sounds, ...

Smithsonian researchers working in Colombia’s Cerrejón coal mine have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical rainforest. Titanoboa, the world’s biggest snake, lived in this forest 58 ...

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Solitary river otters in Brazil use a rich repertoire of vocalizations during play and conflict, according to a new study. Solitary river otters in Brazil use a rich repertoire of vocalizations during ...