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Papers

(The median citation count of Biota Neotropica is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Long-term ecological program reveals high species richness of medium- and large-sized mammals in forest fragments of the Cerrado	27
Enhancing public policies for Brazilian bullfrog farming	22
The herpetofauna of priority highland areas for conservation of the Caatinga in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil	12
bnormal average increase in sea surface temperature may promote the first documented mortality event of a marine sponge in the Southeastern Brazil	8
Ecological and biological patterns of stream fish studies from the Piracicaba-Capivari-Jundiaí Basin (PCJ Basin, SP) assessed through a systematic review	8
Ephemeroptera (Insecta) from the metropolitan region of Santarém, Pará, Brazil	8
Hidden in the dung: first record of Maculantrops hirtipes () (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) from Brazil	7
The neglected tropical grasslands: first record of campo com murundus and its plant communities in the state of São Paulo, Brazil	7
Polymitarcyidae Banks, 1900 (Insecta, Ephemeroptera) from the Western Region of Pará, Brazil	6
Population density estimates for three endangered bird taxa from the Pernambuco Endemism Center, northeastern Brazil	6
Use of a geospatial tool to predict the distribution of Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) and some native freshwater gastropods found in Brazil	6
The co-evolution of life and biogeochemical cycles in our planet	5
Fish defaunation in reservoirs of the Lower Paranapanema River basin, Brazil	5
Spatial structure of phytoplankton metacommunities and their functional groups in a neotropical floodplain	4
Updated list of long-term monitored tree species in a forest with high diversity and endemism in the highlands of Espírito Santo, Brazil	4
Early larval development of the rock shrimps Sicyonia dorsalis Kingsley, 1878 and S. typica (Boeck, 1864) (Dendrobranchiata) with remarks of larval morphology of Sicyoniidae Ortmann, 1898	4
Antennal sensilla in Cyclocephala literata Burmeister, 1847 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)	4
Diversity of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of an urban forest fragment in the Atlantic rainforest (São Paulo, Brazil)	4
Priority areas for conservation of the vascular flora in the Sierra Madre del Sur, Mexico	4
Amphibians and reptiles of the Refúgio Biológico Bela Vista – Itaipu Dam, state of Paraná, southern Brazil	4
Fish fauna of the Río San Pedro and Río La Pasión, Usumacinta River Basin, Guatemala	4
The drift effect on nestedness of ephemeroptera, trichoptera and plecoptera orders in the Xingu River	4
Predicting potential distribution and evaluating biotic interactions of threatened species: a case study of Discocactus ferricola (Cactaceae)	3
Breeding biology of Hooded Gnateater Conopophaga roberti Hellmayr, 1905 (Aves: Conopophagidae)	3
Mammals in São Paulo State: diversity, distribution, ecology, and conservation	3

Floristics of the herbaceous-shrub vegetation in the restinga of Araoca Beach, municipality of Guimarães, Maranhão, Northeast Brazil	3
Everything is similar, everything is different! Trichorhina (Oniscidea, Platyarthridae) from Brazilian caves, with descriptions of 11 new species	3
Male Emphorini (Hymenoptera: Apidae) bees use flowers of Ipomoea carnea (Convolvulaceae) as overnight resting sites	3
Entomogenous galls and their associated fauna in deciduous dry forest and woodland vegetation remnants (Caatinga) in the Northern Depressão Sertaneja, Brazil	3
Current knowledge of ferns and lycophytes in Sergipe state, northeastern Brazil	3
The high biodiversity of benthic organisms in a coastal ecosystem revealed by an integrative approach	3
Floristic composition, pollination and seed-dispersal systems in a target cerrado conservation area	3
Birds of Parque Estadual Ilha do Cardoso: ecology, conservation and natural history	3
Dragonflies (Insecta, Odonata) from northeast Santa Catarina and notes on the occurrence of species in the region	3
The bee fauna (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in Cerrado and Cerrado-Amazon Rainforest transition sites in Tocantins state, Northern Region of Brazil	3
Insect galls from the Serra da Bandeira (Barreiras, Western Bahia, Brazil)	3
Threats to health and conservation of free-living sloths (Bradypus and Choloepus) under anthropic influence in the city of Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil	3
One more place to call home: the invasive bivalve Mytilopsis leucophaeata reaches the Maricá-Guarapina lagoon system (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)	3
Amazonian forest termites: a species checklist from the State of Acre, Brazil	3
Floristic data to support conservation in the Amazonian canga	3
Remote spatial analysis lacking ethnographic grounding mischaracterizes sustainability of Indigenous burning regime	3
Length-weight relationships of 24 stream-dwelling fish species from the Atlantic Forest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2
Invasiveness in Schefflera s.l.: do non-native species outperform phylogenetically related native species?	2
In silico analysis of the biodiversity of endophytic fungi isolated from the Brazilian Cerrado	2
Ichthyofauna of the Nascentes do Rio Parnaíba National Park: watershed divide in the main agricultural encroachment area in the Brazilian Cerrado	2
Accessing the sand fly diversity of Tocantins, Northern Brazil: species delimitation using COI DNA barcoding	2
New records of Tabanidae (Diptera) in an ecotone zone between the Cerrado and the Amazon Forest and an updated list of species of Tocantins, Brazil	2
Effects of aquatic macrophytes on phytoplankton in a shallow tropical reservoir (Amazon, Brazil)	2
Marine and coastal biodiversity studies, 60 years of research funding from FAPESP, what we have learned and future challenges	2
Inventory of birds in two urban wetlands in Temuco (Chile): a basis for monitoring species	2
Synopsis of Myrcia (Myrtaceae) in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil	2
An annotated list of plant viruses described in Paraguay (1920–2023)	2
Bryofaunal gastrotrichs from the Cerrado: First report of Dendroichthydium cf. ibyrapora from a Neotropical Savanna	2
Assessment of distribution of two sympatric mud crab species – Panopeus americanus and Panopeus austrobesus – in a Western Atlantic estuarine intertidal zone	2
Mapping threatened canga ecosystems in the Brazilian savanna using U-Net deep learning segmentation and Sentinel-2 images: a first step toward conservation planning	2
From insect-plant interactions to ecological networks	2
Fishes from affluents of Rio Branco, Municipality of Caracaraí, Roraima State, northern Brazil	2
The ichthyofauna of streams in the upper Purus-Antimary interfluve, with an expansion in the occurrence of Amazonian fish species	2
A new species of Phanerothecium (Monogenea, Oogyrodactylidae), in Hypostomus regani (Loricariidae) from southeast Brazil	2
Phytoplankton composition from Araçá Bay and São Sebastião Channel, São Paulo, Brazil	2
Social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) in Cerrado and Caatinga conservation units, Minas Gerais, Brazil	2
Living at the top of the forest line: medium and large mammals in a high-mountain ecotone in Peruvian Central Andes	2
Contribution to the knowledge of Honduran flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)	2
Molecular and camera trap data confirm the occurrence of Dasypus septemcinctus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil	2
Building knowledge to save species: 20 years of ichthyological studies in the Tocantins-Araguaia River basin	2
Ants associated with fronds of the tropical bracken fern Pteridium esculentum subsp. arachnoideum	1
Xylobotryum portentosum (Mont.) Pat. (Xylobotryomycetes, Ascomycota): a rare fungal species newly found in Southeastern Brazil	1
A decade of Zoology Summer Course: impressions and impacts of the first university extension course on Zoology in Brazil	1
Frontier ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) unveiled: exploring the remarkable diversity of the Brazilian Far West	1
Reptile species of the western region of Paraná State, southern Brazil	1
Moving far from water: unusual dispersal movement of the water opossum (Chironectes minimus: Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae) in central Brazil	1
First record of the exotic snail Zonitoides arboreus (Eupulmonata, Gastrodontidae) in the Brazilian oceanic island of Trindade, South Atlantic	1
Diversity, distribution and host plants of armored scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) in Espírito Santo, Brazil	1
Bioprospecting macroalgae, marine and terrestrial invertebrates & their associated microbiota	1
Reassessment of the extinction risk status of the ponytail palm Beaucarnea inermis	1

Checklist of Damselflies and Dragonflies (Odonata) from Acre state, and the first record of Drepanoneura loutoni von Ellenrieder & Garrison, 2008 for Brazil	1
Fish fauna of the São Francisco River Interbasin Water Transfer reservoirs	1
Marine planktonic and benthic organisms: an ocean of diversity in the collections of the State of São Paulo	1
Bioprospecting as a strategy for conservation and sustainable use of the Brazilian Flora	1
speciesLink: rich data and novel tools for digital assessments of biodiversity	1
Thematic assessment report on invasive alien species in Brazil: summary for policymakers	1
The orchid bee fauna (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Euglossini) from the Capadócia Nordestina, Piauí State, Brazil	1
Indirect evidence of following association between golden dorados (Salminus brasiliensis) and green anacondas (Eunectes murinus) in a Clearwater river of Midwest Brazil	1
Effects of hydrological cycles and water body connectivity on abundance and co-occurrence of two Neotropical Curculionidae species	1
Inorganic contamination in roadkill birds in Northeast Brazil	1
Dung beetles in South American pasturelands	1
Wood-inhabiting corticioid and poroid fungi (Basidiomycota) from Reserva Ecológica da Universidade Estadual de Goiás, a remnant of the Brazilian Cerrado	1
Erratum: Unraveling fruit and seed morphology and seedling establishment of a narrow endemic tree species	1
Insect galls on Asteraceae in Brazil: richness, geographic distribution, associated fauna, endemism and economic importance	1
The high biodiversity of the Serra de Baturité Environmental Protection Area, Ceará, Brazil	1
Flora of Paraíba, Brazil: Commelinaceae Mirb.	1
Diversity of Biting Midges Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Pacoti Municipality, Baturité Highland, Ceará State, Northeast of Brazil	1
From genes to ecosystems: a synthesis of amphibian biodiversity research in Brazil	1
Knowledge status, endemism, and conservation of anuran amphibians from Espinhaço Range, Brazil: what we know and what are the main opportunities for future studies?	1
Deeper nests enhance embryo survivorship of the Yellow-Spotted River Turtle in the southern Amazon Region	1
Changes in sperm motility of amazonian fish Tambaqui Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier 1816) (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae) exposed to two pesticides	1
Novelties to the vascular Flora of the Ibitipoca Mountains, Minas Gerais, Brazil	1
BIOTA-FAPESP – supporting biodiversity, building partnerships, and filling the knowledge gaps	1
Occurrence and characterization of insect galls in two reserves of the Peruvian Amazon	1
Reviewers Volume 24 Biota Neotropica	1
An updated distribution list of Leptophlebiidae Banks, 1900 (Ephemeroptera: Insecta) for Piauí state	1
Lycophytes and ferns of an Amazonian-Cerrado ecotone in Maranhão State, Northeastern Brazil: identification key and annotated list of taxa.	1
A trilingual key to genera and subgenera of the Scarabaeinae from the Brazilian Amazon (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)	1
Potential dispersal of aquatic snails by waterbird endozoochory in neotropical wetlands	1
New records of Ceratocampinae (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) species from the Cerrado of Maranhão, Brazil	1
Diet and feeding behavior of the parrot snake Leptophis nigromarginatus (Günther, 1866) (Serpentes, Colubridae)	1
Hummingbird-plant networks in rupestrian fields and riparian forests in altitudinal areas of the Serra da Canastra National Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil	1
Biota Neotropica pays tribute to 60 years of FAPESP in this special issue	1
Medium and large-sized mammals of Cantão region, Tocantins, Brazil: inventory and habitat use	1
Croton L. (Crotonoideae, Euphorbiaceae) in a protected area in Northeast Brazil	1
The butterflies of Cristalino Lodge, in the Brazilian southern Amazonia: An updated species list with a significant contribution from citizen science	1
Herpetofauna of a Cerrado-Caatinga transition area in the municipality of Pedro II, Piauí state, Northeastern Brazil	1
Biodiversity and public health interface	1