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Introduction: Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Herbivore Interactions on Islands
Islands provide singular yet powerful natural settings for testing ecological and evolutionary hypotheses and have been particularly informative for...
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Impact of Predators on Arthropod Herbivores and Herbivory along Mountain Ranges on Islands Versus Mainland
Trophic interactions between plants, herbivorous arthropods, and their predators are complex and prone to trophic cascades. Understanding these...
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Food Web Dynamics on Bahamian Islands
We here summarize and integrate findings in our studies of food-web interactions on Bahamian islands conducted over a 40-year timespan. Results...
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Placentation and Placenta
Gestation in the vizcacha lasts approximately 153 days. At 26–32 days post-coitus (dpc), extensions of the trophoblast invading the decidua are...
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Plains Vizcacha Endoparasites: An Exploration of Diversity, Health and Ecology
Parasites are an integral part of all ecosystems and have gained wide acceptance as biological tags since they can provide important information...
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Post-implantation Embryo Development in the South American Plains Vizcacha, Lagostomus maximus (Rodentia, Caviomorpha)
The early embryo development after implantation varies among mammals. In muroid rodents, an egg cylinder is formed by folding during gastrulation;...
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From Pest to Vulnerable Species: Combining Ecological and Behavioural Knowledge for the Conservation and Management of Lagostomus maximus
Despite being a native herbivore, in 1905, the plains vizcacha was declared a plague for agriculture by the Argentinean government. Since then,...
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Chancy History of a Supposedly Vanished South American Rodent, Lagostomus crassus, with Remarks on Recent Extinctions in Caviomorphs
Lagostomus crassus is a chinchillid rodent exclusively based in an isolated cranium exhumed near Cusco, Peru, by Jan Kalinowski. Although...
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Pan-Chinchillidae, a Once Diverse Clade
Pan-Chinchillidae is a clade of caviomorph rodents that includes extant chinchillas (Chinchilla spp.) and mountain vizcachas (Lagidium spp.) within...
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Use of the Plains Vizcacha (Lagostomus maximus) by Indigenous Societies in the Pampas Ecoregion (Argentina)
This chapter reviews the plains vizcacha (Lagostomus maximus) bone record from archaeological sites in the Pampas ecoregion. Information from 82...
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Neuroanatomy and Brain Histological Atlas of the South American Plains Vizcacha
Brains could be classified as lissencephalic or gyrencephalic according to the presence of sulci and gyri. In recent years, studies of the physiology...
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Morphophysiology of the Female Reproductive System
The organs of the vizcacha’s reproductive system are like those of other eutherian mammals. However, some organs exhibit species-specific...
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Bringing Reality to Society and Science
One of the most accurate, balanced, non-idealized summaries about Darwin, and about the confusion that often plagues both the scientific literature...
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Short Summary on Main Cenozoic Fossiliferous Localities and South American Land Mammal Ages (SALMAs)
This chapter includes a cursory, but critical analysis of the South American Land Mammal ages, their chronology, and brief comments about some...
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Brief History of South American Biogeography
The early history of the study of vertebrate palaeobiogeography in South America is marked in the first decade of the twentieth century by two...
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Major Clades of South American Mammals
In this chapter, I shall provide a brief introduction to the main lineages that form part of the early history of South American mammals. Here, the...
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Dinosaur Footprints Throughout Mesozoic Basins in Brazil
The vertebrate ichnological data from the Brazilian Mesozoic basinsMesozoic basins represented by the fossil tracks are well-known, in...
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Tracking Dinosaurs During the Equatorial and South Atlantic Opening
The Mesozoic rift basinsRift basins of northeastern BrazilBrazil, particularly those at the edge of the Atlantic marginAtlantic margin, are small,...
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Splendid Isolation Revisited: The Entente Cordiale Model
Previous pages were the necessary introduction to understand the topics that are included in present chapter. Here the main pillars of a new model...