As landscapes are increasingly modified due to anthropogenic processes such as urbanisation or development for agriculture, the need understand wildlife habitat requirements is imperative. This particularly pertinent species that threatened, apex predators with specific nest, den, food requirements. Identifying responses thresholds can provide an understanding of what resources using avoiding, ...

The giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) is a strictly myrmecophagous xenarthran species that ranges from Honduras to northern Argentina, occupying various habitats, grassland and floodplains forests. According the IUCN, it vulnerable mainly threatened by poaching, habitat loss fragmentation, road kills. Here, we investigate phylogeography, distribution, ecology, historical demography of Br...

One of the privileges and responsibilities accorded to Specialty Chief Editors in the Frontiers journals, at the commencement of new specialty sections, is to provide an overview of potential research directions for the specialization in the form of a challenge statement. There is, however, a tight restriction on this prerogative: specifically, a limit of 2000 words. For the very practical and ...