Publications by authors named "Jose J Flores-Maldonado"

Wildlife conservation involves making management decisions with incomplete knowledge of ecological relationships. Efforts to augment foraging resources for the endangered Mexican long-nosed bat () are progressing despite limited knowledge about the species' foraging behavior and requirements. This study aimed to understand responses to floral resource availability, focusing on individual agave- and local-scale characteristics influencing visitation rates to flowering agaves.

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One of the key drivers of pollinator declines is land cover change. We documented for the first time the impacts of over three decades of land cover change in Mexico on the plant resources of an endangered migratory pollinator, the Mexican long-nosed bat, . This species is considered endangered under national and international criteria due to population declines over 50% in the past 10 years.

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Mexico is a megadiverse country, however its tardigrade fauna is poorly known and to date 44 species have been reported from this region. In the present paper, an update of the reported Mexican tardigrades is presented, increasing the number of recorded tardigrades to 55 species (11 new records). Moreover, we describe Milnesium cassandrae sp.

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A cross-sectional survey was conducted in order to determine the seroprevalence and to identify some factors associated with the presence of antibodies against Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Gallinarum-Pullorum in white-winged (Zenaida asiatica) and mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) from hunting areas of Northeast Mexico. From September to October 2006, 201 serum samples were analyzed with the seroagglutination test.

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