| searching for bioindicators of forest fragmentation: passerine birds in the atlantic forest of southeastern brazil. | aiming to evaluate the potential of passerine birds as bioindicators of forest fragmentation, we studied the avifauna in the mountain region of the state of rio de janeiro by mist-netting between 2001 and 2005. we sampled six sites, including four small fragments (from 4 to 64 ha) in an agricultural area (teresópolis), one second-growth forest (440 ha - miguel pereira) and a continuous forest (10,600 ha, serra dos orgãos national park - sonp). indicator species analysis and a monte carlo test we ... | 2008 | 18660953 |
| isospora oliveirai n. sp. (chromista: miozoa: eimeriidae) from the greenish schiffornis schiffornis virescens (lafresnaye, 1838) (passeriformes: tyranni: tityridae) in south america. | coccidia are obligatory intracellular parasites with at least one intestinal phase in their life cycles, being isospora schneider, 1881 the main coccidian genus related to the order passeriformes. however, there is no record of isosporans from the passerine family tityridae, which is the family of the greenish schiffornis schiffornis virescens (lafresnaye, 1838). | 2020 | 32494953 |