Vol 6 Num 1



table of contents

editorial

points of view

The rise and fall of the Refugial Hypothesis of Amazonian speciation: a paleoecological perspective
Mark B. Bush , Paulo E. de Oliveira
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articles

Shelter availability and use by mammals and birds in an Atlantic Forest area
Beatriz de Mello Beisiegel
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Ocurrence of sea turtles during seismic surveys in northeastern Brazil
Cristiano Leite Parente , Juliana Doyle Lontra , Maria Elisabeth de Araújo
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Review about mites (Acari) of rubber trees (Hevea spp., Euphorbiaceae) in Brazil
Fábio Akashi Hernandes , Reinaldo José Fazzio Feres
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Courtship, vocalization, and tadpole description of Epipedobates flavopictus Anura: Dendrobatidae) in southern Goiás, Brazil
Ronan Caldeira Costa , Kátia Gomes Facure , Ariovaldo Antonio Giaretta
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Cartographic basis for storage and spatial analysis of data on diversity of palm trees in a stretch of Mata Atlântica, Ubatuba – SP
Maria Cecília Barbosa de Toledo, Simey Thury Vieira Fisch
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Detectability of Capybaras in forested habitats
Gustavo Romeiro Mainardes Pinto, Kátia Maria Paschoaletto Micchi de Barros Ferraz, Hilton Thadeu Zarate do Couto, Luciano Martins Verdade
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Plant inhabiting mites (Acari) of the “Estação Ecológica de Paulo de Faria”, State of São Paulo, Brazil
Renato Buosi, Reinaldo José Fazzio Feres, Anibal Ramadan Oliveira, Antonio Carlos Lofego, Fábio Akashi Hernandes
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Selection of epiphytes as accumulators of chemical elements in the Atlantic Forest
Camila Elias, Elisabete A. de Nadai Fernandes, Elvis Joacir de Françaa, Márcio A. Bacchi
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inventories

Turtles of the Tiputini Biodiversity Station with remarks on the diversity and distribution of the Testudines from Ecuador
Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia
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Bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) in urban forest fragments in Juiz de Fora City, Minas Gerais State, southeastern Brazil
Ronald Souza Monteiro de Barros , Eduardo Lage Bisaggio , Roberto Cabral Borges
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identification keys

An illustrated key to male Actinote from Southeastern Brazil (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)
Ronaldo Bastos Francini , Carla M. Penz
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Characterization and taxonomic key for tadpoles (Amphibia: Anura) from the northwestern region of São Paulo State, Brazil
Denise de Cerqueira Rossa-Feres , Fausto Nomura
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Key to the genera of Ephemerelloidea (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) from Brazil
Lucimar G. Dias , Frederico F. Salles , Cesar N. Francischetti , Paulo Sérgio F. Ferreira
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short communications

Chalcidoid parasitoids (Hymenoptera) of Actinote parapheles Jordan, 1913 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)
Hélcio R. Gil-Santana , Marcelo Teixeira Tavares
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thesis

All material published in this section of BIOTA NEOTROPICA are exact copies of the thesis, therefor are not publications, are not analyzed by the Editorial Board and are responsability of the author.

Experimental evaluation of contemporary competition among lizard species endemic to the dunes of the middle São Fracisco River, Bahia
Alexander Silveira Gomes
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Fruits and seeds biometry, germination and growth of angico Anadenanthera colubrina (Vell.)Brenan var. cebil (Griseb.) Altschul) in different conditions of substrates and luminosities
Ana Carolina da Cunha Rodrigues
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Intra especific genetic variability of the dourada - Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii Castelnau 1855 (Pimelodidae – Siluriformes) in the estuary-Amazonas-Solimoes system
Jacqueline da Silva Batista
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Caracterização florística e estrutural de onze fragmentos de mata estacional semidecídua da área de proteção ambiental do município de Campinas - SP
Karin dos Santos
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Genetic Variability of piramutaba Brachyplatystoma vaillantii (Siluriformes:Pimelodidae) in Estuário-Amazonas-Solimões Sistem
Kyara Formiga de Aquino
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Structure of bird communities in cerrado areas in the northeast region of São Paulo state
Maria Elisa de Castro Almeida
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Arthropods communities composition variation in the forest formations on the extreme south of Bahia: Food resources disponibility for leaflitter frogs ans lizards
Moacir S. Tinôco
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