Smithsonian researchers working in Colombia’s Cerrejón coal mine have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical rainforest. Titanoboa, the world’s biggest snake, lived in this forest 58 ...

Researchers observed and recorded captive neotropical river otters in Brazil and published the first formal description of their vocal repertoire. Neotropical river otters make six sounds, ...

This article addresses central themes in the study of tropical biodiversity, exploring the roles that speciation, extinction, and dispersal play in the formation of regional assemblages. The ...

Researchers working in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical rainforest. Titanoboa, the world's biggest snake, lived in this forest 58 million ...

The Neotropical otter (Lontra longicaudis) should not be considered threatened by the IUCN Red List, according to a new paper in mongabay.com’s open-access journal Tropical Conservation Science.

A recent study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) reveals that, despite their outsized ecological impact, the diversity of ants in the American tropics and their behavior remain ...

It’s hard to fathom how billions of neotropical songbirds, like warblers, tanagers and orioles, migrate thousands of miles from their winter homes in Central and South America, gather at Mexico’s ...

Neotropical songbirds arrive in the trees at Houston Audubon's High Island bird sanctuaries during April's migration season, filling many of us with a sense of childlike wonder. A child would be ...

Solitary river otters in Brazil use a rich repertoire of vocalizations during play and conflict, according to a new study. Solitary river otters in Brazil use a rich repertoire of vocalizations during ...

Questions: Riverine and associated vegetation communities are periodically affected by floods. However, there have been few quantitative studies on the structural responses of Neotropical tree ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. In the face of widespread human-induced habitat fragmentation, identification of those ecological characteristics that render some species ...