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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The herpetofauna of priority highland areas for conservation of the Caatinga in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil	28
Enhancing public policies for Brazilian bullfrog farming	26
Long-term ecological program reveals high species richness of medium- and large-sized mammals in forest fragments of the Cerrado	17
bnormal average increase in sea surface temperature may promote the first documented mortality event of a marine sponge in the Southeastern Brazil	10
Population density estimates for three endangered bird taxa from the Pernambuco Endemism Center, northeastern Brazil	9
Spatial structure of phytoplankton metacommunities and their functional groups in a neotropical floodplain	8
The co-evolution of life and biogeochemical cycles in our planet	8
Use of a geospatial tool to predict the distribution of Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) and some native freshwater gastropods found in Brazil	7
Polymitarcyidae Banks, 1900 (Insecta, Ephemeroptera) from the Western Region of Pará, Brazil	7
The neglected tropical grasslands: first record of campo com murundus and its plant communities in the state of São Paulo, Brazil	7
Ephemeroptera (Insecta) from the metropolitan region of Santarém, Pará, Brazil	6
Hidden in the dung: first record of Maculantrops hirtipes () (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) from Brazil	6
The drift effect on nestedness of ephemeroptera, trichoptera and plecoptera orders in the Xingu River	6
Ecological and biological patterns of stream fish studies from the Piracicaba-Capivari-Jundiaí Basin (PCJ Basin, SP) assessed through a systematic review	6
Fish defaunation in reservoirs of the Lower Paranapanema River basin, Brazil	6
Diversity of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of an urban forest fragment in the Atlantic rainforest (São Paulo, Brazil)	5
Amphibians and reptiles of the Refúgio Biológico Bela Vista – Itaipu Dam, state of Paraná, southern Brazil	5
Updated list of long-term monitored tree species in a forest with high diversity and endemism in the highlands of Espírito Santo, Brazil	5
Antennal sensilla in Cyclocephala literata Burmeister, 1847 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)	5
Breeding biology of Hooded Gnateater Conopophaga roberti Hellmayr, 1905 (Aves: Conopophagidae)	4
Birds of Parque Estadual Ilha do Cardoso: ecology, conservation and natural history	4
Woody vegetation in Atlantic Forest inselbergs: floristic similarity, patterns of richness, pollination/dispersal syndromes, and influence of climatic variables	4
Threats to health and conservation of free-living sloths (Bradypus and Choloepus) under anthropic influence in the city of Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil	4
One more place to call home: the invasive bivalve Mytilopsis leucophaeata reaches the Maricá-Guarapina lagoon system (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)	4
Jaguar and puma cannibalism in its northern distribution range in Mexico	4

Mammals in São Paulo State: diversity, distribution, ecology, and conservation	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
The high biodiversity of benthic organisms in a coastal ecosystem revealed by an integrative approach	4
Fish fauna of the Río San Pedro and Río La Pasión, Usumacinta River Basin, Guatemala	4
Priority areas for conservation of the vascular flora in the Sierra Madre del Sur, Mexico	4
Invasiveness in Schefflera s.l.: do non-native species outperform phylogenetically related native species?	3
Dragonflies (Insecta, Odonata) from northeast Santa Catarina and notes on the occurrence of species in the region	3
From insect-plant interactions to ecological networks	3
A new species of Phanerothecium (Monogenea, Oogyrodactylidae), in Hypostomus regani (Loricariidae) from southeast Brazil	3
Marine and coastal biodiversity studies, 60 years of research funding from FAPESP, what we have learned and future challenges	3
Floristics of the herbaceous-shrub vegetation in the restinga of Araoca Beach, municipality of Guimarães, Maranhão, Northeast Brazil	3
Amazonian forest termites: a species checklist from the State of Acre, Brazil	3
Everything is similar, everything is different! Trichorhina (Oniscidea, Platyarthridae) from Brazilian caves, with descriptions of 11 new species	3
Predicting potential distribution and evaluating biotic interactions of threatened species: a case study of Discocactus ferricola (Cactaceae)	3
Molecular and camera trap data confirm the occurrence of Dasypus septemcinctus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil	3
Synopsis of Myrcia (Myrtaceae) in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil	3
Building knowledge to save species: 20 years of ichthyological studies in the Tocantins-Araguaia River basin	3
The ichthyofauna of streams in the upper Purus-Antimary interfluve, with an expansion in the occurrence of Amazonian fish species	3
Current knowledge of ferns and lycophytes in Sergipe state, northeastern Brazil	3
Insect galls from the Serra da Bandeira (Barreiras, Western Bahia, Brazil)	3
Floristic composition, pollination and seed-dispersal systems in a target cerrado conservation area	3
Fishes from affluents of Rio Branco, Municipality of Caracaraí, Roraima State, northern Brazil	3
Male Emphorini (Hymenoptera: Apidae) bees use flowers of Ipomoea carnea (Convolvulaceae) as overnight resting sites	3
Phytoplankton composition from Araçá Bay and São Sebastião Channel, São Paulo, Brazil	3
Inventory of birds in two urban wetlands in Temuco (Chile): a basis for monitoring species	3
The bee fauna (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in Cerrado and Cerrado-Amazon Rainforest transition sites in Tocantins state, Northern Region of Brazil	3
Entomogenous galls and their associated fauna in deciduous dry forest and woodland vegetation remnants (Caatinga) in the Northern Depressão Sertaneja, Brazil	3
An annotated list of plant viruses described in Paraguay (1920–2023)	3
Floristic data to support conservation in the Amazonian canga	3
Length-weight relationships of 24 stream-dwelling fish species from the Atlantic Forest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	3
Remote spatial analysis lacking ethnographic grounding mischaracterizes sustainability of Indigenous burning regime	3
Effects of aquatic macrophytes on phytoplankton in a shallow tropical reservoir (Amazon, Brazil)	3
Flora of Paraíba, Brazil: Commelinaceae Mirb.	2
New records of Ceratocampinae (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) species from the Cerrado of Maranhão, Brazil	2
A trilingual key to genera and subgenera of the Scarabaeinae from the Brazilian Amazon (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)	2
BIOTA-FAPESP – supporting biodiversity, building partnerships, and filling the knowledge gaps	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
In silico analysis of the biodiversity of endophytic fungi isolated from the Brazilian Cerrado	2
Living at the top of the forest line: medium and large mammals in a high-mountain ecotone in Peruvian Central Andes	2
Insect galls on Asteraceae in Brazil: richness, geographic distribution, associated fauna, endemism and economic importance	2
Hummingbird-plant networks in rupestrian fields and riparian forests in altitudinal areas of the Serra da Canastra National Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil	2
Frontier ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) unveiled: exploring the remarkable diversity of the Brazilian Far West	2
Effects of hydrological cycles and water body connectivity on abundance and co-occurrence of two Neotropical Curculionidae species	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
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
Ichthyofauna of the Nascentes do Rio Parnaíba National Park: watershed divide in the main agricultural encroachment area in the Brazilian Cerrado	2
First record of the exotic snail Zonitoides arboreus (Eupulmonata, Gastrodontidae) in the Brazilian oceanic island of Trindade, South Atlantic	2
Bioprospecting macroalgae, marine and terrestrial invertebrates & their associated microbiota	2
Xylobotryum portentosum (Mont.) Pat. (Xylobotryomycetes, Ascomycota): a rare fungal species newly found in Southeastern Brazil	2

Reviewers Volume 24 Biota Neotropica	2
Accessing the sand fly diversity of Tocantins, Northern Brazil: species delimitation using COI DNA barcoding	2
Social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) in Cerrado and Caatinga conservation units, Minas Gerais, Brazil	2
Contribution to the knowledge of Honduran flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)	2
Biota Neotropica pays tribute to 60 years of FAPESP in this special issue	1
Non-invasive genetic sampling reveals a habitat use extension of Chrysocyon brachyurus and Leopardus guttulus inside a protected area of Southeastern Brazil	1
Inorganic contamination in roadkill birds in Northeast Brazil	1
An updated distribution list of Leptophlebiidae Banks, 1900 (Ephemeroptera: Insecta) for Piauí state	1
speciesLink: rich data and novel tools for digital assessments of biodiversity	1
Reptile species of the western region of Paraná State, southern Brazil	1
Diet and feeding behavior of the parrot snake Leptophis nigromarginatus (Günther, 1866) (Serpentes, Colubridae)	1
Croton L. (Crotonoideae, Euphorbiaceae) in a protected area in Northeast Brazil	1
Deeper nests enhance embryo survivorship of the Yellow-Spotted River Turtle in the southern Amazon Region	1
Checklist of Damselflies and Dragonflies (Odonata) from Acre state, and the first record of Drepanoneura loutoni von Ellenrieder & Garrison, 2008 for Brazil	1
Lycophytes and ferns of an Amazonian-Cerrado ecotone in Maranhão State, Northeastern Brazil: identification key and annotated list of taxa.	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
Erratum: Florística e fitossociologia em parcelas permanentes da Mata Atlântica do sudeste do Brasil ao longo de um gradiente altitudinal	1
Fish fauna of the São Francisco River Interbasin Water Transfer reservoirs	1
The REFLORA Program: implementation, repatriation, and creation of the REFLORA Virtual Herbarium as a tool for biodiversity studies	1
Reassessment of the extinction risk status of the ponytail palm Beaucarnea inermis	1
A decade of Zoology Summer Course: impressions and impacts of the first university extension course on Zoology in Brazil	1
Temporal niche patterns of medium and large mammals in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon	1
Moving far from water: unusual dispersal movement of the water opossum (Chironectes minimus: Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae) in central 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
Diversity, distribution and host plants of armored scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) in Espírito Santo, Brazil	1
Preliminary assessment of the fish fauna of the Canandé Forest Reserve, Ecuadorian Chocó, with comments on its trophic role	1
Potential dispersal of aquatic snails by waterbird endozoochory in neotropical wetlands	1
Medium and large-sized mammals of Cantão region, Tocantins, Brazil: inventory and habitat use	1
Biodiversity and public health interface	1
Botanical efforts reveals unrecorded thalloid liverworts for both State of Maranhão and Brazilian Cerrado, northeastern Brazil	1
From genes to ecosystems: a synthesis of amphibian biodiversity research in Brazil	1
Ants associated with fronds of the tropical bracken fern Pteridium esculentum subsp. arachnoideum	1
Indirect evidence of following association between golden dorados (Salminus brasiliensis) and green anacondas (Eunectes murinus) in a Clearwater river of Midwest Brazil	1
Marine planktonic and benthic organisms: an ocean of diversity in the collections of the State of São Paulo	1
Mammals of Cajuru State Forest and surroundings: a neglected but important Protected Area for the Cerrado conservation in the São Paulo state, Brazil	1
Diversity of Biting Midges Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Pacoti Municipality, Baturité Highland, Ceará State, Northeast of Brazil	1
Wood-inhabiting corticioid and poroid fungi (Basidiomycota) from Reserva Ecológica da Universidade Estadual de Goiás, a remnant of the Brazilian Cerrado	1
The high biodiversity of the Serra de Baturité Environmental Protection Area, Ceará, Brazil	1
The butterflies of Cristalino Lodge, in the Brazilian southern Amazonia: An updated species list with a significant contribution from citizen science	1
Erratum: Unraveling fruit and seed morphology and seedling establishment of a narrow endemic tree species	1
Occurrence and characterization of insect galls in two reserves of the Peruvian Amazon	1
Bioprospecting as a strategy for conservation and sustainable use of the Brazilian Flora	1
Novelties to the vascular Flora of the Ibitipoca Mountains, Minas Gerais, Brazil	1
Changes in sperm motility of amazonian fish Tambaqui Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier 1816) (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae) exposed to two pesticides	1
Dung beetles in South American pasturelands	1
Herpetofauna of a Cerrado-Caatinga transition area in the municipality of Pedro II, Piauí state, Northeastern Brazil	1