11 articles in this issue
Javier Enrique Sosa-Escalante,Sonia Gallina,Enrique Martínez-Meyer,Patricia Cortés-Calva,M. Cristina Mac Swiney G,Luis Ignacio Iñiguez-Dávalos,Juan Pablo Gallo-Reynoso,Alina Gabriela Monroy-Gamboa,Jorge Servin,Gerardo Sánchez-Rojas,José Antonio Guerrero,Elizabeth Arellano,Miguel Briones-Salas,Sergio Ticul Alvarez-Castañeda
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Alexey Andreychev,Vyacheslav Kuznetsov,Alexandr Lapshin,Maksim Alpeev
A new method of studying for activity of a semi-aquatic mammal Russian desman Desmana moschata (Linnaeus, 1758) with use of digital portable voice recorders is developed. To identify the burrows in which the recorders were to be installed, the burrows wer... see more
Izabela Stachowicz,José Rafael Ferrer Paris,Marcial Quiroga-Carmona,Lisandro Moran,Cecilia Lozano
The Gran Sabana is a region of great biogeographical and conservation value that has been recently threatened due to increasing overexploitation of natural resources and illegal mining. Systematic survey methods are required in order to study specie... see more
Elizabeth A. Martínez-Salazar,Andrea J. Medina-Rodríguez,Rogelio Rosas-Valdez,Melina Del Real-Monroy,Jorge Falcón-Ordaz
The Mexican free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) is an abundant, widely distributed species in Mexico, except for most of the Yucatán peninsula. We studied the helminth fauna of T. b. mexicana at seven localities in the State of Zacatecas in orde... see more
Franger Jesús García Alvarez,Elvira Sánchez-González,Marjorie Machado
The genus Nephelomys comprises at least 13 taxa with altitudinal distribution ranging from 900 to 4,000 meters above sea level. Three species are currently known to occur in Venezuela, but some authors suggest that two additional taxa are present in Venez... see more
Leidy Azucena Ramirez-Fráncel,Leidy Viviana García-Herrer,Gladys Reinoso-Florez
The broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus ismaeli, is listed as Near Threatened (NT) by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and due to the low number of collected specimens, its geographic distribution is poorly known. This study presents the ... see more
Khiavett Sanchez-Pinzon,Rafael Reyna-Hurtado,Eduardo J. Naranjo,Alexine Keuroghlian
A reduction in the frequency of rainfall and an increase in drought periods, as a consequence of climatic change, has caused the desiccation of water ponds (locally known as “aguadas”) in the Calakmul region. The objective of this study was to determine i... see more
Pablo Teta,Guillermo D’Elía
The sigmodontine species name Geoxus lafkenche proposed by Teta and D’Elía (2016) is unavailable, given that the publication where it originally appears did not satisfy the requirements of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. In this note we... see more
Alberto Astiazarán Azcarraga,Sonia Gallina Tessaro,Christian Alejandro Delfin-Alfonso
Studying activity patterns of canopy mammals provides information on the biology of these species. However, the challenges of reaching and sampling the forest canopy restrict the information available on activity patterns. This study aimed to ... see more
Laura Angélica Cacelin-Castillo,Octavio César Rosas-Rosas,Enrique Martínez-Meyer,Juan Héctor García-Chávez,Erik Joaquín Torres-Romero
The ocelot is one of the six species of felids distributed in Mexico. This species is threatened with extinction and thus protected by the Mexican government. Knowledge about the environmental factors that affect its presence is a crucial step in identify... see more