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Raúl Sánchez-González,Anuar David Hernández-Saint Martin,Octavio César Rosas Rosas,Juan García-Chávez

The Potosino-Zacatecano Plateau (PZP) is characterized by a system of hills surrounded by ridges where the bobcat is the only wild felid; however, there is no information on the basic ecology of this species in this region.  The objective of this wor... see more

Sandra Helena Montero Bagatella,Alberto González-Romero,Gerardo Sánchez-Rojas,Sonia Gallina

Seasonality and changes in climate and habitat dynamics lead ground squirrels to use resources during the most favorable seasons and avoid less favorable conditions by hibernating. The Perote ground squirrel (Xerospermophilus perotensis) is nationally and... see more

Julio César Hernández-Hernández,Jorge E. Morales-Mávil,Matthias Laska,Laura Teresa Hernández-Salazar

Climatic fluctuations have a biogeochemical effect on food availability and quality, resulting in adjustments of the foraging and food selection behavior of animals. Our study aimed to evaluate the influence of seasonal variation on abundance of food reso... see more

Catherine Mora-Beltrán,Hugo Fernando López-Arévalo

The study of interaction networks between species is a subject that has drawn increasing attention in recent decades, especially in investigations involving relationships between plants and pollinators or seed dispersers. In the Neotropics, bats of the su... see more

Carlos Narváez-Romero,Carolina Reyes-Puig,Darwin Valle,Jorge Brito

The stump-tailed porcupine (Coendou rufescens) is a medium-sized species that inhabits subtropical, temperate and High-Andean forests of the northern Andes, at 800 to 3,650 m asl. This species is characterized by a short non-prehensile tail and a distinct... see more

Alberto Gonzalez-Gallina,Mircea G. Hidalgo-Mihart

Six species of felids are distributed across Mexico and all are affected to a greater or lesser extent by the national highway network (377,660 km in length), but the magnitude of its impact on these species is unknown. Part of the issue is the scarce inf... see more

Rodolfo Martínez-Mota,Gilberto Pozo-Montuy,Yadira M. Bonilla Sánchez,Thomas R. Gillespie

Habitat disturbance disrupts the ecological interactions of mammals, leading to negative consequences for biodiversity. In particular, it is suggested that parasite-host interactions are affected in tropical ecosystems, with parasite diversity reduced as ... see more

Berta Calonge-Camargo,Jairo Pérez-Torres

Bats are hosts of a high taxonomic diversity of ectoparasites. Six hundred eighty seven insect species have been reported as bat ectoparasites, belonging to orders Dermaptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera and Siphonaptera (Marshall 1982). This study lists an inve... see more

Alfredo H. Zúñiga,Víctor Fuenzalida,Rodolfo Sandoval

Lycalopex griseus is a canid distributed in Chile and part of Argentina. Although its food habits have been extensively documented, data for anthropized environments are missing. Understanding the response of this species in these habitats is key, given t... see more

Jonard David Echavarria-Renteria,Alex Mauricio Jimenez-Ortega,Leison Palacios-Mosquera

Galictis vittata (Greater Grison) is distributed from Mexico through Central and South America down to northern Argentina and southern Brazil, from sea level up to 1,500 masl. In Colombia, this species is widely distributed along the Caribbean and Andean ... see more

Juan F. Charre-Medellin,Esteban Barragán-López,Rogelia Torres-Villa,Maria del Socorro Alvarado,Tiberio Cesar Monerrubio-Rico,Alexandre Gutiérrez-Barragan

The international conservation status of the jaguar (Panthera onca) is Near Threatened, reason to seek priority regions for its conservation. Both national and international geographical distribution models assume that in the Mexican Pacific slope, the ja... see more

Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales,Cornelio Sánchez-Hernández

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