Sérgio Luiz Althoff

TL;DR: The mammal fauna from Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil, is one of the least known of the country and works on terrestrial mammals are scarce and new species of aquatic mammals have been registered in the last years.

TL;DR: The ATLANTIC BIRD TRAITS (ABT) is the most comprehensive data set on measurements of bird morphological traits found in a biodiversity hotspot; it provides data for basic and applied research at multiple scales, from individual to community, and from the local to the macroecological perspectives.

TL;DR: During a twelve-month bat inventory in northeastern Brazil, eleven specimens of Histiotus were collected with a unique combination of characters that did not match those of any known species, and are described as a new species.

TL;DR: These findings shed light on potential host range for these bacteria, which are characterized as important zoonotic pathogens in bats from the Atlantic Forest biome.

TL;DR: It is emphasized that DNA barcoding should be used in combination with other taxonomic and systematic procedures in an integrative framework and based on properly identified museum collections, to improve identification procedures, especially in epidemiological surveillance and ecological assessments.