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  • Main scientometrics:

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Recent talks

  • 2008. Small differences may lead to big consequences: bat and bird seed dispersal networks. Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Suriname (Winner of the Luis F Bacardi Award 2008).
  • 2008. An overview of Brazilian mammalogy: trends, biases and future directions. IV Congresso Brasileiro de Mastozoologia, Brazil.
  • 2008. The structure of bat-fruit networks and their robustness to extinctions. IV Simpósio de Ecologia Comportamental e Interações, Brazil.
  • 2008. Mutualism between bats and plants: revealing the ways of coevolution. XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia, Brazil.

 

   

Scientific papers
 

2008 + accepted and in press

  • Mello MAR. 2009. Temporal variation in the organization of a Neotropical assemblage of leaf-nosed bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Acta Oecologica, accepted.

  • Brito D, Oprea M, Oliveira LC, Mello MAR. 2009. Trends, biases and future directions in Brazilian mammlogy. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, accepted.

  • Mello MAR, Kalko EKV, Silva WR. 2008. Diet and abundance of the bat Sturnira lilium (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in a Brazilian Montane Atlantic Forest. Journal of Mammalogy 89: 485–492.

  • Mello MAR, Kalko EKV, Silva WR. 2008. Movements of the bat Sturnira lilium and its role as a seed disperser of Solanaceae in the Brazilian Atlantic forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 24: 225-228.

1998-2007

  • Mello MAR. 2007. Influence of herbivore attack patterns on reproductive success of the shrub Piper hispidum (Piperaceae). Ecotropica 13(1): 1-6.

  • Mello MAR. 2007. Interações entre o morcego Sturnira lilium (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) e plantas da família Solanaceae. Biota Neotropica 7(1): online.

  • Oprea M, Brito D, Mello MAR, Aguiar LMS. 2006. Ten years of Chiroptera Neotropical: accomplishments and future directions. Chiroptera Neotropical 12: 262-267.

  • Cruz D, Mello MAR, Van Sluys M. 2006. Phenology and floral visitors of two sympatric Heliconia species in the Brazilian Atlantic forest. Flora 201(7): 519-527.

  • Mello MAR, Pol A. 2006. First record of the bat Mimon crenulatum (E. Geoffroy, 1801) (Mammalia: Chiroptera) for the state of Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Biology 66(2): 295-299.

  • Mello MAR, Leiner NO, Guimarães Jr. PR, Jordano P. 2005. Size-based fruit selection of Calophyllum brasiliense (Clusiaceae) by bats of the genus Artibeus (Phyllostomidae) in a Restinga area, southeastern Brazil. Acta Chiropterologica 7(1): 179–182.

  • Mello MAR, Schittini GM. 2005. Ecological analysis of three bat assemblages from conservation units in the Lowland Atlantic Forest of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Chiroptera Neotropical 11(1-2): 206-210.

  • Mello MAR, Schittini G, Selig P, Bergallo HG. 2004. A test of the effects of climate and fruiting of Piper species (Piperaceae) on reproductive patterns of the bat Carollia perspicillata (Phyllostomidae). Acta Chiropterologica 6(2): 309–318.

  • Brito D. Oliveira LC,  Mello MAR. 2004. An overview of mammalian conservation at Poço das Antas Biological Reserve, southeastern Brazil. Journal for Nature Conservation 12: 219-228.

  • Mello MAR, Schittini G, Selig P, Bergallo HG. 2004. Seasonal variation in the diet of the bat Carollia perspicillata (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in an Atlantic Forest area in southeastern Brazil. Mammalia 68(1):49-55.

  • Bergallo HG, Esbérard CEL, Mello MAR, Lins V, Mangolin R, Melo GGS, Baptista M. 2003. Bat species richness in Atlantic Forest: what is the minimum sampling effort? Biotropica 35(2): 278-288.

  • Mello MAR. 2003. Interações entre o morcego Carollia perspicillata (Linnaeus, 1758) (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) e plantas do gênero Piper (Linnaeus, 1737) (Piperales: Piperaceae) em uma área de Mata Atlântica. Biota Neotropica 3(2): online.

  • Baptista M, Mello MAR. 2001. Preliminary inventory of the bat species of the Poço das Antas Biological Reserve, RJ. Chiroptera Neotropical 7(1): 133-135.

  • Mello MAR, Fernandez FAS. 2000. Reproductive ecology of the bat Carollia perspicillata (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in a fragment of the Brazilian Atlantic Coastal forest. Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde 65: 340-349.

  • Mello MAR, Nascimento JL, Fernandez FAS. 1999. How often should researchers go to the field to conduct demographic studies on Carollia perspicillata? Bat Research News 40(2): 39-41.

  • Mello MAR, Fernandez FAS. 1998. Variations in age structure and sex ratio of a Carollia perspicillata population in an Atlantic Forest fragment in southeastern Brazil. Bat Research News 39(3): 104. 

Science popularization articles

Books and chapters

  • Mello MAR, Passos FC. 2008. Frugivoria em morcegos brasileiros. In Morcegos do Brasil: biologia, sistemática, ecologia e conservação (org. Pacheco SM, Esberard CEL, Marques RV). Editora Armazém Digital, 568 pp.

  • Mello MAR. 2008. Morcegos on line. In Morcegos do Brasil: biologia, sistemática, ecologia e conservação (org. Pacheco SM, Esberard CEL, Marques RV). Editora Armazém Digital, 568 pp.

  • Bergallo HG, Hatano FM, Raíces DS, Ribeiro TTL, Alves AG, Luz JL, Mangolin R, Mello MAR. 2004. Os mamíferos da restinga de Jurubatiba. In Pesquisas de longa duração na restinga de Jurubatiba (ed. Rocha CFD, Esteves FA, Scarano FR). Rio de Janeiro: RIMA Editora. p.215-230.

  • Vieira MV, Faria D, Fernandez FAS, Ferrari S, Freitas S, Gaspar DA, Moura RT, Olifiers N, Procópio PP, Pardini R, Pires A, Ravetta A, Mello MAR, Ruiz C, Setz EZF. 2003. Mamíferos. In Fragmentação de ecossistemas: causas, efeitos sobre a biodiversidade e recomendações de políticas públicas (ed. Rambaldi D, Oliveira DAS). Brasília: Ministério do Meio Ambiente / SBF. p.125-151.

Theses

  • PhD: Mello MAR. 2006. Interactions between the bat Sturnira lilium (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) and plants of the family Solanaceae. Pp. 144. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas.

  • MSc: Mello MAR. 2002. Interactions between the bat Carollia perspicillata (Linnaeus, 1758) (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) and plants of the genus Piper (Linnaeus, 1737) (Piperales: Piperaceae) in an area of Atlantic Forest. Pp. 63. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro.