Volume 7, Issue 1 (2021)
Review
The Ecuadorian Microbiome Project: a plea to strengthen microbial genomic research
Magdalena Díaz, Pablo Jarrín-V, Raquel Simarro, Pablo Castillejo, Gabriela N. Tenea, and C. Alfonso Molina
Research Articles
Cicadellinae of Ecuador and Cicadellidae of Galápagos
Clifford B. Keil and Pedro W. Lozada
Responses of Polylepis birds to patch and landscape attributes in the High Andes
C. Steven Sevillano-Ríos and Amanda D. Rodewald
First report of partial leucism in the poison frog Epipedobates anthonyi (Anura: Dendrobatidae) in El Oro, Ecuador
David Brito-Zapata
On the occurrence of a highly localized outbreak of a saturniid in lowland east Ecuador: a case study and literature review
Samantha Sutton, Sarah C. Pasquini, TodD Swanson, and Walter P. Carson
Two overlooked elusive crakes (Aves, Rallidae): first country record of Ocellated Crake Micropygia schomburgkii in Ecuador and Rufous-faced Crake Laterallus xenopterus in Peru
Emiliano A. Depino, Niels K. Krabbe, and Juan I. Areta
An opportunist predator hidden in the vegetation: on the predation of birds by Philodryas olfersii (Serpentes: Dipsadidae)
Fabio Teruo Mise, João Marcelo Deliberador Miranda, Danusy Lopes Santos, Alexandre Curcino, and Fabrício Hiroiuki Oda
Necrophiliac behaviour in the recently described species Scinax tsachila (Anura: Hylidae), with a review of necrophilia in amphibians
Pol Pintanel, Gabriela Obando-Moreno, and Andrés Merino-Viteri
Aramides saracura and Aramides cajaneus do not have a parapatric distribution, at least not in Paraguay: A reply to Marcondes and Silveira (Zookeys 500, 2015)
Paul Smith and Hugo Del Castillo
Nesting biology and nest survival of the Grassland Sparrow (Ammodramus humeralis) in grazed grasslands of central-eastern Argentina
Martín Alejandro Colombo, Adrián Jauregui, Exequiel Gonzalez, and Luciano Noel Segura
Historia natural de Osteocephalus castaneicola Moravec, Aparicio, Guerrero-Reinhard, Calderón, Jungfer & Gvoždík, 2009 (Anura: Hylidae) con descripción de canto de anuncio y nuevos datos de distribución
Paulo Roberto Melo-Sampaio, Jhon Jairo López-Rojas, and Moisés Barbosa de Souza
Primer registro del liquen Pyrenula hirsuta para Sudamérica
Marlon Vega, Jorge Déleg, and Ángel Benítez
Using noninvasive techniques to monitor game species targeted by poaching in Misiones, Argentina
Pryscilha M. Delgado, Carina F. Argüelles, and Karen E. DeMatteo
Do arboreal termite nests increase mortality in Mauritia flexuosa L. f. (Arecaceae) during wildfires?
Linton Lee Arneaud, Aidan D. Farrell, and Michael P. Oatham
Influencia del micrositio y el ambiente en la instalación de Polylepis tarapacana en los Altos Andes
López Victoria Lien, Cellini Juan Manuel, and Griet An Erica Cuyckens
First comprehensive insights into the biogeography of the Caribbean intertidal oribatid mite fauna (Ameronothroidea)
Tobias Pfingstl
Germination of high Andean treeline species of contrasting environments and along elevational gradients in northwest Argentina
Griet An Erica Cuyckens, Isabell Hensen, Victoria Lien López, Juan Manuel Cellini, and Daniel Renison
Geometry morphometrics of plant structures as a phenotypic tool to differentiate Polylepis incana Kunth. and Polylepis racemosa Ruiz & Pav. reforested jointly in Ecuador
Joselin Carolina Caiza Guamba, Daniel Corredor, Cristina Galárraga, Jean Pierre Herdoiza, Michelle Santillán, and María C. Segovia-Salcedo
Herpetofauna of the Reserva de la Biósfera Estación Biológica del Beni and the Chimane Reserve Indigenous Territory, Bolivia
Cord B. Eversole, Randy L. Powell, Dennis Lizarro, Ashton V. Crocker, Gonzalo Calderón Vaca, and Paola De La Quintana
Conservation status assessment of the highest forests in the world: Polylepis flavipila forests as a case study
Fressia Nathalie Ames-Martínez, Harold Rusbelth Quispe-Melgar, and Daniel Renison
DNA barcoding approach to characterize microalgae isolated from freshwater systems in Ecuador
Isabel Ballesteros, Paulina Terán, Cristina Guamán-Burneo, Nory González, Alejandra Cruz, and Pablo Castillejo
Population genetic analysis of two Polylepis microphylla (Wedd.) Bitter (Rosaceae) forests in Ecuador
Esteban W. Bastidas-León, David A. Espinel-Ortiz, and Katya Romoleroux
Predation on the invasive swimming crab Charybdis hellerii (Crustacea, Decapoda) by Myrichthys ocellatus (Actinopterygii, Ophichthidae): the first record of consumption by a native fish
Matheus Araujo Siqueira, Maria Laís Martins Vieira, Douglas Moraes, Alexandre Oliveira Almeida, and João Lucas Leão Feitosa
Avifaunal responses after two decades of Polylepis forest restoration in central Argentina
F. R. Barri, M. Toledo, P. Herzog, L. M. Bellis, and D. Renison
La temperatura y radiación solar explican diferencias en la distribución de dos árboles altoandinos (Polylepis spp.) localmente simpátricos en la Cordillera Blanca, Perú
C. Steven Sevillano-Ríos and Laura V. Morales
Acanthocera buestani a new species of rare wasp-like horsefly, with notes on the subgenus Querbetia from Ecuador
Alex Pazmiño-Palomino, Roberto Andreocci, and Diego J. Inclán
A new species of terrestrial-breeding frog Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae) from the Cordillera del Cóndor, Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador
David Brito-Zapata and Carolina Reyes-Puig
Are populations of Polylepis australis locally adapted along their elevation gradient?
Paula Inés Marcora, Paula A Tecco, María Cecilia Ferrero, Ana Elisa Ferreras, Sebastián Rodolfo Zeballos, Guillermo Funes, Diego Ezequiel Gurvich, Gonzalo. Arias, Yolanda Cáceres, and Isabell Hensen
Pollen limitation and reproductive incompatibility system in a critically endangered tree, Polylepis incarum (Bitter) M. Kessler & Schmidt-Leb (Rosaceae)
Cecilia L. López, Alejandra I. Domic, César Mayta, Emilia García, Jorge A.N. Quezada, and Silvia C. Gallegos
Resurvey of vascular plants and soil arthropods on the summit of Mount Corazón (Andes of Ecuador) after 140 years
Pierre Moret, Priscilla Muriel, Ricardo Jaramillo, Antonella Bernardi, Katya Romoleroux, Álvaro Barragán, Washington Pruna, and Petr Sklenář
Evaluación del estiércol de mamíferos nativos como potenciales atrayentes para el muestreo de escarabajos coprófagos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae)
M. Edivaldo Rodríguez-López, Gibrán Sánchez-Hernández, and Benigno Gómez
The structure of tardigrade communities at fine spatial scales in an Andean Polylepis forest
Balbina P.L. Ramsay, Nigel J. Marley, David T. Bilton, Simon D. Rundle, and Paul M. Ramsay
El uso de gremios tróficos en macroinvertebrados acuáticos como herramienta de monitoreo en los Altos Andes del Sur de Ecuador
Ramiro Jiménez, Eduardo Barnuevo, Bruno Timbe, and Pedro X. Astudillo
Lachryphagy by cockroaches: reptile tears to increase reproductive output?
Matthijs P. van den Burg and Javier Aznar González de Rueda
Herbivory and leaf traits of two tree species from different successional stages in a tropical dry forest
Fernando Henrique de Sena, Bruno Melo Lustosa, Silvia Roberta Santos Silva, Hiram Marinho Falcão, and Jarcilene Silva de Almeida
Two new species of terrestrial-breeding frogs (Anura: Brachycephaloidea) from Cordillera de Colán, Peru
Pablo Javier Venegas, Luis Alberto García-Ayachi, Jesús Ormeño, Santiago Bullard, Alessandro Catenazzi, and Ana Paula Motta
¿Cómo avanzar en la conservación de los bosques de Polylepis y su diversidad biológica?
María Claudia Segovia-Salcedo, Joselin Carolina Caiza Guamba, Michael Kessler, Paul Michael Ramsay, Tatiana Espinoza Boza Espinoza, Daniel Renison, Harold Rusbelth Quispe-Melgar, Erickson Urquiaga-Flores, Milagros Rodriguez-Caton, Fressia Nathalie Ames-Martínez, Aldemar Carabajo-Hidalgo, Diego M Cabrera-Amaya, and Katya Romoleroux
Cantos de las ranas y los sapos de Colombia: estado actual del conocimiento y perspectivas de investigación en ecoacústica
Mauricio Rivera-Correa, Ana María Ospina-L, Maribel Rojas-Montoya, Khristian Venegas-Valencia, Luis Alberto Rueda-Solano, Paul David Alfonso Gutiérrez-Cárdenas, and Fernando Vargas-Salinas
Distribution shifts in habitat suitability and hotspot refugia of Andean tree species from the last glacial maximum to the Anthropocene
Alejandra I. Domic and José M. Capriles
Leaf morphoanatomical traits of Jacquinia armillaris Jacq. (Theophrastoideae - Primulaceae) in two xeric shrublands from Venezuela
Yutcelia Carolina Galviz and Rosanna Valerio
Observaciones de forrajeo en recursos florales por Phyllotis haggardi (Rodentia: Cricetidae) en un ecosistema de páramo al sur del Ecuador
Carlos Nivelo-Villavicencio, Bruno Timbe, and Pedro X. Astudillo
Controles extrínsecos e intrínsecos en la descomposición de hojas de tres especies de árboles pioneros comunes en quebradas de bajo orden en los Andes Centrales de Colombia
Lina Paola Giraldo, Juan F. Blanco-Libreros, and Julián Chará
Myrcia machinazana (Myrtaceae), a new Amazonian species from southern Ecuador
Álvaro J. Pérez, Daniela Cevallos, Nicolás Zapata, Edison Rea, Hugo Navarrete, and Maria Lúcia Kawasaki
Oceanic primary production trend patterns along coast of Ecuador
Nicole Chinacalle-Martínez, Elka García-Rada, Jean López-Macías, Silvia Pinoargote, Gema Loor, Javier Zevallos-Rosado, Pedro Cruz, David Pablo, Belén Andrade, Carlos Robalino-Mejía, Stephanie Añazco, Jéssica Guerrero, Andrea Intriago, Callie Veelenturf, and César Peñaherrera-Palma
Projecting the theoretical niche of a recently re-discovered population of feral Asian water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) in the North Rupununi wetlands, Guyana
Matthew T. Hallett, Gerard Pereira, Oswin Ambrose, Diane McTurk, and Brittany A. Bankovich
Feeding of humpback whales in low latitudes of the Southeast Pacific Ocean
Ana M. García Cegarra, Cristina Castro, and Koen Van Waerebeek
It is not just about birds: what do acoustic indices reveal about a Costa Rican tropical rainforest?
Mónica Retamosa Izaguirre, Jimy Barrantes-Madrigal, David Segura Sequeira, Manuel Spínola-Parallada, and Oscar Ramírez-Alán
Cuantificación de Plomo (Pb) en tejidos blandos y óseo de murciélagos (Mammalia: Chiroptera) provenientes de zonas de influencia Urbana en la costa occidental de Ecuador
Michelle Baquerizo and Jaime A. Salas
Diversity of the Ganoderma species in Uruguay
G. Morera, S. Lupo, S. Alaniz, and G. Robledo
Plant community associations with morpho-topographic, geological and land use attributes in a semi-deciduous tropical forest of the Dominican Republic
José Ramón Martínez Batlle and Yntze van der Hoek
Ectoparasitism of the feather chewing louse Colpocephalum trichosum on the Andean Condor Vultur gryphus
Pablo Sebastián Padrón, Anahi Hidalgo, Nicole Ormaza, Sebastián Kohn, Fabricio Narvaez, and Félix Hernán Vargas
A new record of Dryadella mocoana (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) from southeastern Ecuador
Marco M. Jiménez, Luis Ocupa Horna, Leisberth Velez-Abarca, and Luis E. Baquero
Exploring local morphological and molecular variation in parasitic species Gaiadendron punctatum (Loranthaceae) from Northwestern Andes of Colombia
Isabel Carmona-Gallego, Romina Vidal-Russell, and Fernando Alzate-Guarín
Observations on Camposella insignata (Diptera: Acroceridae) from the Tropical Andes of Ecuador
Akihito G. Tadashima-Rivera, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Sebastián A. Ramos-Rojas, and Giovanni M. Ramón-Cabrera
The effect of environmental variables on nightly activity patterns of insectivorous bats monitored over ten years in a tropical premontane forest, Costa Rica
Richard K. LaVal and Robert O. Lawton
Taxonomic diversity and ecological attributes of copepods of the Colombian Caribbean Sea
Edgar Fernando Dorado-Roncancio, Johanna Medellín-Mora, and José Ernesto Mancera-Pineda
A new distributional record for the Martin del Campo’s Arboreal Alligator Lizard (Abronia martindelcampoi) with comments on the biogeography of arboreal Alligator-lizards in the Sierra Madre del Sur, Mexico
Thalia E. Cruz-Machuca and Ricardo Palacios-Aguilar
Description of a new species of Eurysthea, and notes and new records in Cerambycinae and Lamiinae (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)
Antonio Santos-Silva, Daniel Heffern, and Juan Pablo Botero
Sampling performance of bait traps in high Andean fruit-feeding butterflies
Carlos Federico Álvarez, Alejandra Clavijo-Giraldo, Sandra Inés Uribe, Tomasz Wilhelm Pyrcz, Cristiano Agra Iserhard, André Victor Lucci Freitas, and Mario Alejandro Marín
Biodiversity conservation: local and global consequences of the application of “rights of nature” by Ecuador
Juan M. Guayasamin, Roo Vandegrift, Tobias Policha, Andrea C. Encalada, Natalia Greene, Blanca Ríos-Touma, Lorena Endara, Rafael E. Cárdenas, Fred Larreátegui, Luis Baquero, Inty Arcos, José Cueva, Mika Peck, Felipe Alfonso-Cortes, Daniel Thomas, José DeCoux, Elisa Levy, and Bitty A. Roy
Ontogenetic shift in the diet of Dajaus monticola (Mugiliformes: Mugilidae) with comments in the recruitment of young individuals in the Honduran Caribbean coast
Wilfredo A. Matamoros, Stefano Fenoglio, Scott R. Clark, and Jacob F. Schaefer
