image: The black-spined Atlantic tree-rat (Phyllomys nigrispinus) is endemic to the Atlantic Forest and its diet consists mostly of leaves. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 29 Aug. 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by C. Banks-Leite at Imperial College London in Ascot, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Using ecological thresholds to cost set-asides in a biodiversity hotspot." view more
Credit: Thomas Püttker