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Introduction: Most global biodiversity is in developing economies. Decades of capacity building should have built sufficient in-country capacity to develop biodiversity baselines; yet has effort provided the expertise to build these baselines?
Methods: Grants and access to research opportunities are often linked to success in publishing, with the H...
Bats provide an excellent case study for studying evolution due to their remarkable flight and echolocation capabilities. In this study, we sought to understand the phenotypic evolution of key traits in Rhinolophidae (horseshoe bats) using phylogenetic comparative methods. We aim to test the phylogenetic signals of traits, evaluated the best‐fit ev...
Background
Family Rhinolophidae (horseshoe bats), Hipposideridae (leaf-nosed bats) and Rhinonycteridae (trident bats) are exclusively distributed in the Old-World, and their biogeography reflects the complex historic geological events throughout the Cenozoic. Here we investigated the origin of these families and unravel the conflicting family origi...
Karst habitats are hotspots of diversity and endemism. Their naturally fragmented distributions across broad geographic landscapes have led to the complex array of smaller evolutionary ecosystems that present unique challenges from a conservation perspective. Comprehensive biodiversity assessments of karst habitats have revealed that these ecosyste...
Background
Family Rhinolophidae (horseshoe bats), Hipposideridae (leaf-nosed bats) and Rhinonycteridae (trident bats) are exclusively distributed in the Old-World, and their biogeography reflects the complex historic geological events throughout the Cenozoic. Here we investigated the origin of these families and unravel the conflicting family origi...
Understanding biodiversity patterns as well as drivers of population declines, and range losses provides crucial baselines for monitoring and conservation. However, the information needed to evaluate such trends remains unstandardised and sparsely available for many taxonomic groups and habitats, including the cave-dwelling bats and cave ecosystems...
Systematics and taxonomy are the backbone of all components of biology and ecology, yet cryptic species present a major challenge for accurate species identification. This is especially problematic as they represent a substantial portion of undiscovered biodiversity, and have implications for not only species conservation, but even assaying potenti...
Understanding biodiversity patterns as well as drivers of population declines, and range losses provides crucial baselines for monitoring and conservation. However, the information needed to evaluate such trends remains unstandardised and sparsely available for many taxonomic groups and habitats, including the cave-dwelling bats and cave ecosystems...
A new species of the gekkonid genus Hemiphyllodactylus is described from forested karst hills near Zhutangxiang town, Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, Yunnan, China. Hemiphyllodactylus zhutangxiangensis sp. nov. is distinguished from all other congeners in morphology and an uncorrected pairwise sequence divergence of greater than 14% based on 1039 b...
A Phenotype analysis of Neolissochilus sumatranus (Cyprinidae) which is an endemic species to Sumatra Island has been carried from five tributaries of Batang Toru based on 23 morphometric and 14 meristic characters. The result showed the significance of characters differentiation in morphometric characters but no differentiation in meristic charact...
Puntius lateristriga (Valenciennes, 1842) is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Cyprinidae. Intraspecific variation among P. lateristriga from Sumatra Island and Singkep as the adjacent island was studied based on 23 morphological characters by using UPGMA (Unweighted Pair Group Method Arithmetic Average) analysis. The data consist of new...
Ringkasan. Catatan ini mengenai publikasi perbiakan kedua Meninting Cegar Enicurus ruficapillus dan berasal dari individu betina yang teramati sedang aktif bersarang pada ketinggian 854 m dpl di jalur pendakian Gunung Talamau, Sumatera Barat. Sarang berada di pinggir sungai kecil.dan berisi dua telur berwarna putih dengan bercak coklat merah muda p...
A random amplified polymorphic DNA-polymerase chain reaction (RAPDPCR) analysis was applied to determine the genetic diversity within and among the populations of Tor douronensis in West Sumatra river system. The results provided information for proper breeding, maintenance, and conservation of T. douronensis. The highest and the lowest values of g...
We conducted a biodiversity assessment in two mountains in Kerinci Seblat National Park from 9 September - 3 October 2014. Our survey revealed 22 species of small mammals, 16 species of birds and 8 species of fishes. We added rare pictures of fresh specimens of Sumatran endemic taxas in this report, particularly some endemic rats and shrews.
We assumed that Bukit Barisan as a physical barrier and its acts to population exchanges in West Sumatra, as well as for
terrestrial animal group. If it does for bats in case for the Diadem Leaf-nosed Bat, Hipposideros diadema, which have superior
dispersal powers to many other terrestrial group, then we might expect to see this some how reflected...
