Microplastic occurrence in fish species from the Iquitos region in Peru, western Amazonia

Autor: Rommel R. ROJAS, Carlos ARANGO-MORA, Christian NOLORBE-PAYAHUA, Mishelly MEDINA, Melly VASQUEZ, Josias FLORES, Fiorela MURAYARI, Claudia VÁSQUEZ, Valeri de ALMEIDA, Wilfredo RAMOS, Enrique RIOS ISERN, Jorge MARAPARA DEL AGUILA, Juan C. CASTRO, Javier DEL ÁGUILA, Felicia DIAZ JARAMA, Maria VASCONCELOS-SOUZA

Publikováno v: Acta Amazonica, Vol 53, Iss 1, Pp 65-72 (2023)

ABSTRACT The contamination of aquatic environments by microplastic has become a major threat to biodiversity. The presence of microplastic is documented in the aquatic fauna of the oceans, but, in the Amazon basin, reports on microplastic occurrence

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Hunting from the air: A new record of predation of Agelaia testacea (Fabricius, 1804) (Vespidae: Polistinae) on a katydid Parascudderia sp. (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) in the Peruvian Amazon

Autor: Raul B. Pinedo Garcia, Rommel R. Rojas, Carol Sánchez, Diego M. M. Mendes, Alexandre Somavilla

Publikováno v: Entomological Communications, Vol 4 (2022)

Social wasps capture adult and/or immature insects to feed their larvae. Frequent observations indicate mainly small or immature insects as their prey. However, there are very few records of social wasps as predators of larger living insects. Herein,

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A Pan-Amazonian species delimitation: high species diversity within the genus Amazophrynella (Anura: Bufonidae)

Autor: Rommel R. Rojas, Antoine Fouquet, Santiago R. Ron, Emil José Hernández-Ruz, Paulo R. Melo-Sampaio, Juan C. Chaparro, Richard C. Vogt, Vinicius Tadeu de Carvalho, Leandra Cardoso Pinheiro, Robson W. Avila, Izeni Pires Farias, Marcelo Gordo, Tomas Hrbek

Publikováno v: PeerJ, Vol 6, p e4941 (2018)

Amphibians are probably the most vulnerable group to climate change and climate-change associate diseases. This ongoing biodiversity crisis makes it thus imperative to improve the taxonomy of anurans in biodiverse but understudied areas such as Amazo

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Diversification of tiny toads (Bufonidae: Amazophrynella) sheds light on ancient landscape dynamism in Amazonia

Autor: Leandro J C L Moraes, Fernanda P Werneck, Alexandre Réjaud, Miguel T Rodrigues, Ivan Prates, Frank Glaw, Philippe J R Kok, Santiago R Ron, Juan C Chaparro, Mariela Osorno-Muñoz, Francisco Dal Vechio, Renato S Recoder, Sérgio Marques-Souza, Rommel R Rojas, Léa Demay, Tomas Hrbek, Antoine Fouquet

Publikováno v: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2022, 136 (1), pp.75-91. ⟨10.1093/biolinnean/blac006⟩

Major historical landscape changes have left significant signatures on species diversification. However, how these changes have affected the build-up and maintenance of Amazonia’s megadiversity continues to be debated. Here, we addressed this issue

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https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blac006

A new species of the Rhinella margaritifera (Laurenti 1768) species group (Anura, Bufonidae) from southern Brazilian Amazonia

Autor: Izeni Pires Farias, Drausio Honorio Morais, Robson W. Ávila, Marcelo Gordo, Rommel R. Rojas, André Pansonato, Vinicius Tadeu de Carvalho, Renata Perez

Publikováno v: Zootaxa. 4868

Neotropical toads from the Rhinella margaritifera species group have been considered a taxonomic puzzle for a long time. Because of the high morphological similarity and an unknown number of undescribed taxa among the species of this group, we did an

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4868.3.3