As compared with extensive contiguous areas, small isolated habitat patches lack many species. Some species disappear after isolation; others are rarely found in any small patch, regardless of isolation. We used a 13-year ...

High rates of old growth (OG) forest destruction and difficult farming conditions result in increasing cover of secondary forests (SF) in the Amazon. In this setting, it is opportune to ask which animals use newly available ...

Our study (Sberze et al., 2010) combined three personal contributions: a professor's (M. C.-H.) experience in neotropical ornithology, a post-doc's (G. F.) practice with occupancy estimation, and a graduate ...