Publications
Loiselle, B.A., Blake, J.G., Durães, R., Ryder, T.B. & Tori, W. Environmental segregation in lek sites among
six co-occurring species of manakins (Aves: Pipridae) in eastern Ecuador. Auk, in press.
Tori, W.P., T.B. Ryder, R. Durães, B.A. Loiselle, J.G. Blake & J. Hidalgo. Don’t count your eggs before they
hatch: an alternative sampling technique to get genetic material from tropical passerines with high nest
predation. Condor, in press.
Loiselle, B.A., T.B. Ryder, R. Durães, W. Tori, J.G. Blake & P.G. Parker. Genetic relatedness of males at leks of four Pipridae species: no evidence for kin selection. Behavioral Ecology, in press.
Ryder, T.B. & Durães, R. 2005. It’s not easy to be green: using molt and morphological criteria to age and
sex green-plumage manakins (Aves: Pipridae). Ornitologia Neotropical 16:481-491. PDF
Durães, R., Martins, W.P. & Vaz-de-Mello, F. 2005. Dung beetle (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) assemblages
across a natural forest-cerrado ecotone in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Neotropical Entomology 34:721-731. PDF
Durães, R. & Marini, M.Â. 2005. A quantitative assessment of bird diets in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, with
recommendations for future diet studies. Ornitologia Neotropical 16:65-83. PDF
Durães, R. & Loiselle, B.A. 2004. Inter-scale relationship between species richness and environmental
heterogeneity: a study case with antbirds in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Ornitologia Neotropical 15
(suppl.): 127-135. PDF
Maldonado-Coelho, M. & Durães, R. 2003. The Black-goggled Tanager (Trichothraupis melanops): an
occasional kleptoparasite in mixed-species bird flocks and ant swarms of Southeastern Brazil. Ornitologia
Neotropical 14:397-403.
Durães, R. & Marini, M.Â. 2003. An evaluation of the use of tartar emetic in the study of bird diets in the
Atlantic Forest of southeast Brazil. Journal of Field Ornithology 74:270-280. PDF
Marini, M.Â., Durães, R., Lopes, L.E., Mendes, A. & Carvalho, C.E.A. 2003. Rediscovery of the Scalloped-
antbird (Myrmeciza ruficauda, Thamnophilidae) at Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Cotinga 19: 59-61.
Durães, R., Pompeu, P.S. & Godinho, A.L. 2001. Alimentação de quatro espécies de Leporinus
(Characiformes, Anostomidae) durante a formação de um reservatório no Sudeste do Brasil. Iheringia 90:
183-191.
Marini, M.Â. & Durães, R. 2001. Annual patterns of molt and reproductive activity of passerines in South-
central Brazil. Condor 103:767-775. PDF
Durães, R., Santos, G. & Formagio, P.S. 2000. Trophic ecology of tucunaré (Pisces, Cichlidae: Cichla
monoculus) in a reservoir of Southeast Brazil. Revista de Ictiología 8:41-45.
Vasconcelos, M.F., Maldonado-Coelho, M. & Durães, R. 1999. Notas sobre algumas espécies de aves
ameaçadas e pouco conhecidas da porção meridional da Cadeia do Espinhaço. Melopsittacus 2:44-50.
Theses
Durães, R. 2001. Feeding ecology of Atlantic Forest understory birds in Minas Gerais, Brazil. M.Sc. Thesis.
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. 91 p.
Durães, R. 1998. Fluctuating asymmetry and ectoparasitism in passerine birds in urban forest fragments.
Undergraduate thesis. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
