By being actively embedded in the dynamics of forests, bats perform a range of ecosystem services, making the group key to ecological, agricultural and economic interests. Due to the structure of a forest influencing the ...

The Atlantic Forest in one of the 25 biodiversity hot spots in the world, but has suffered with a severe exploitation in the past and the biome area was reduced to 8% of its original extent. This fact, associated to the ...

Given the situation of habitat loss and natural landscape disturbance, bats represent a good source of information for studies on diversity, interaction and responses to environmental changes. In addition, they perform ...

The Atlantic Forest is one of the richest centers of global biodiversity and also the most threatened. Despite this, have an expressive biodiversity, with high rates of endemism, related to a variety of microhabitats. The ...

Birds contribute to many kinds of environmental services, such as predation on arthropods, which results in their population control, and reduced folivory and higher growth rates of plants. In addition, insectivorous birds ...

Despite the devastation to which it was subjected, Atlantic Forest is still home to very high levels of biological diversity and endemism. From Callitrichidae family, the endangered buffy-tufted-ear marmoset (Callithrix ...

The Pernambuco Endemism Center (PEC) is an area of Atlantic Forest with high biodiversity levels due to biogeographic and historical factors. Located in Northeastern Brazil, north of the São Francisco River, the PEC is ...

Bats are important elements of the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest biomes, considered priority hotspots for conservation. Due to their great diversity and morphological adaptations, they are pollinators, seed dispersers ...