1. Presently, the major thrust of my research is on the systematics, ecology, biogeography and conservation of the mammals of South America. For the past two decades I have worked throughout the ...

Dormancy is a widespread bet-hedging strategy across taxa, enabling organisms to survive natural and anthropogenic disturbances. It fundamentally alters eco-evolutionary processes, including ...

Global species assessments, in which every extant species in a taxonomic group is systematically assessed, have been conducted only for very few plant groups such as cycads, conifers, mangroves and ...