supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41730320,42030513)。
Gastropods,as one of the most common invertebrates in shallow marine environments,were heavily impacted by the Permian–Triassic mass extinction(PTME),with severe loss of diversity and remarkable dwarfism of body size...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.31970223);the Yunnan Province Science and Technology Department(Grant No.202203AP140007);the Yunnan Key Laboratory for the Conservation of Tropical Rainforests and Asian Elephants(Grant No.202305AG070003);the Hainan Institute of National Park(Grant No.KY-24ZK02);the Hainan Province Science and Technology Special Fund(Grant No.ZDYF2023RDYL01)。
The origin of the biota of Hainan Island,China,remains a fundamental scientific problem.Comparative studies on the biota,geological tectonics,and paleomagnetism proposed that during the Eocene,Hainan Island connected ...
Although hunting in the north-eastern Atlantic forest of Brazil began more than 500 years ago, no study to date has evaluated its impacts on the region’s mammalian fauna. For one year we carried out diurnal and noctu...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32100356);the National Animal Collection Resource Center,China
Specimens of the crane fly genus Helius Lepeletier&Serville,1828 from Sichuan,China are examined and studied.Three Helius species all belonging to the nominotypical subgenus are recognized,of which H.(H.)pallidissimoi...
The strategic geographical location of Palestine, along with its topography, diversity of ecosystems and climatic changes, create a suitable environment for the presence of reptiles. Zoos in the Gaza Strip have a vari...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB26000000);the International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(132311KYSB20190010).
The amalgamation of Pangea during the late Paleozoic is a major tectonic event in Earth history[1],but its process and timing is still not well understood,especially among its eastern margin.Two competing hypotheses e...
Resources for this study were obtained from INTA Projects.
Semiarid Patagonia represents 25%of the rangeland area in Argentina,and sheep overgrazing has degraded about a third of it in the past.In this century,depleted domestic stocks have mostly stabilized,but Guanaco popula...
Financial support for this research derived from MIUR(ex 60%)funds(resp.E.Perri and S.Critelli);PON React-EU“Ricerca e Innovazione”2014—2020 funds(CUP:H25F21001220006)。
It is reported a multi-proxy palaeoclimatic study conducted on a MIS 5e calcarenite from the Mar Piccolo Basin(MP),Gulf of Taranto(GT)(Central Mediterranean).The calcarenite returned a rich malacofauna consisting of 1...
Taxonomic and faunistic results are presented for three genera of the tribe Pyraustini Meyrick, 1890 of the subfamily Pyraustinae Meyrick, 1890 based on material from the southern Arabian Peninsula. The new genus Dysg...
Thanks to the Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica for financial support trough PICT 2017-0607(to MR),PICT 2019-02419(to SGC).
In recent years,the taxonomy and systematics of the cartilaginous fish taxa from the Eocene La Meseta Formation of Seymour(Marambio)Island,Antarctica have been extensively discussed in a series of papers,resulting in ...