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Publications
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Gallery forest and dry river bed of the Rio Bocapán. Perú, Tumbes. August 2019 |
Peer-reviewed Articles in review
48. Macedo, G., R. S. Marcondes, G. A. Bravo, E. P. Derryberry, C. Biondo. Macroevolution of body extremities reveals an integrated phenotypic response of coloration and morphology to temperature in a large clade of Neotropical passerines (Furnariida). In review at Ornithology
47. Ríos, J. P., G. A. Bravo, O. Laverde-R. A novel morphological syringeal adaptation: another path for the evolution of acoustic variation in suboscine birds. In review at Proceedings of the Royal Society B
46. Anderson, D. L., J. Lozano-Flórez, D. García-Cobos, N. Reyes-Amaya, E. Barona-Cortes, J. Clavijo-Bustos, S. P. Galeano, J. Cardenas-Bautista, S. Cifuentes-Acevedo, G. A. Bravo, L. F. Barrera, A. Guzmán, N. Moreno-Niño, S. Urbano-Apraez, C. Gómez-Posada, A. Mendoza-Henao. The state of biological research in forest canopies of Colombia, South America. In review at Austral Ecology
47. Ríos, J. P., G. A. Bravo, O. Laverde-R. A novel morphological syringeal adaptation: another path for the evolution of acoustic variation in suboscine birds. In review at Proceedings of the Royal Society B
46. Anderson, D. L., J. Lozano-Flórez, D. García-Cobos, N. Reyes-Amaya, E. Barona-Cortes, J. Clavijo-Bustos, S. P. Galeano, J. Cardenas-Bautista, S. Cifuentes-Acevedo, G. A. Bravo, L. F. Barrera, A. Guzmán, N. Moreno-Niño, S. Urbano-Apraez, C. Gómez-Posada, A. Mendoza-Henao. The state of biological research in forest canopies of Colombia, South America. In review at Austral Ecology
Peer-reviewed Articles in press
None at the time
Peer-reviewed Articles
45. Musher, L., G. Del-Rio, R. S. Marcondes, R. T. Brumfield, G. A. Bravo, G. Thom. 2024. Geogenomic predictors of genetree heterogeneity in an Amazonian bird (Thamnophilus aethiops). Systematic Biology 73:36–52 https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syad061
44. Bolívar-Leguizamón*, S., F. Bocalini*, L. F. Silveira, G. A. Bravo. 2024. The role of biogeographical barriers on the historical dynamics of passerine birds with a circum-Amazonian distribution. Ecology and Evolution 14:e10860 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10860
43. Bocalini, F*., S. Bolívar-Leguizamón*, L. F. Silveira, G. A. Bravo. 2023. Amazonian colonization from the Atlantic Forest: New perspectives on the connections of South American tropical forests. Molecular Ecology 32:6874–6895 https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17180
42. Gouvea, A.*, G. A. Bravo, P. T. Z. Antas, K. L. Schuchmann, L. F. Silveira. 2023. Rainy cycles in South America as drivers for the breeding of Rynchops niger and Phaetusa simplex (Aves, Charadriiformes). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63, e202363028. https://doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2023.63.028.
41. Fernández-Gómez, R. A., W. Ku-Peralta, D. Botero-Restrepo, N. Niño-Rodríguez, O.Laverde-R, H. E. Pantoja-Sánchez, G. A. Bravo, M.Álvarez-Rebolledo, O. H. Marín-Gómez, F. G. Duque, N.Ocampo-Peñuela. 2023. La voz de nuestras aves: contribuciones de la bioacústica a la ornitología colombiana. Ornitología Colombiana 23:3–10 https://doi.org/10.59517/oc.e555
40. Macedo, G.*, R. S. Marcondes, C. Biondo, G. A. Bravo, E. P. Derryberry. 2022. The evolution of sex similarities in social signals: climatic seasonality is associated with lower sexual dimorphism and greater elaboration of female and male signals in antbirds (Thamnophilidae). Evolution 76:2791–3078 https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14638
39. Cueva, D.*, G. A. Bravo, L. F. Silveira. 2022. Systematics of Thraupis (Aves, Passeriformes) reveals an extensive hybrid zone between T. episcopus (Blue-gray Tanager) and T. sayaca (Sayaca Tanager). PLoS One 17(10): e0270892 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270892
38. Tobias, J. A., C. Sheard, A. L. Pigot, A. J. M. Devenish, J. Yang, [...] G. A. Bravo, [...], and 104 other authors. 2022. AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25:581–597 https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898.
37. Macedo, G.*, G. A. Bravo, R. S. Marcondes, E. P. Derryberry, C. Biondo. 2021. Differences in plumage coloration predict female but not male territorial aggression in three antbird sister species pairs. Animal Behaviour 182:107–124 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.09.008
36. Singhal, S., G. E. Derryberry, G. A. Bravo, E. P. Derryberry, R. T. Brumfield, M. G. Harvey. 2021. The dynamics of introgression across an avian radiation. Evolution Letters 5:568–581 https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.256
35. Bravo, G. A., C. J. Schmitt, S. V. Edwards. 2021. What have we learned from the first 500 avian genomes? Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 52:611–639 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-012121-085928
34. Beco, R.*, L. F. Silveira, E. P. Derryberry, G. A. Bravo. 2021. Ecology and behavior predict an evolutionary trade-off between song complexity and elaborate plumages in antwrens (Aves, Thamnophilidae). Evolution 75:2388–2410 https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14325
33. Pacheco, J. F., L. F. Silveira, A. Aleixo, C. E. Agne, G. A. Bencke, G. A. Bravo, G. R. R. Brito, M. Cohn-Haft, G. N. Maurício, L. N. Naka, F. Olmos, S. R. Posso, A. C. Lees, L. F. A. Figuereido, E. Carrano, R. C. Guedes, E. Cesari, I. Franz, F. Schunck, V. Q. Piacentini. 2021. Annotated Checklist of the birds of Brazil by the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee – Second edition. Ornithology Research 29:94–105
https://doi.org/10.1007/s43388-021-00058-x
Supplementary Materials
Portuguese version & checklist
Press release
32. Bravo, G. A., B. M. Whitney, R. Belmonte-Lopes, M. R. Bornschein, N. Aristizábal, R. Beco*, J. Battilana, L. N. Naka, A. Aleixo, M. R. Pie, L. F. Silveira., E. P. Derryberry, R. T. Brumfield. 2021. Phylogenomic analyses reveal non-monophyly of the antbird genera Herpsilochmus and Sakesphorus (Thamnophilidae), with description of a new genus for Herpsilochmus sellowi. Ornithology 138:1–16 https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukab025
31. Dickens, J., P-P Bitton, G. A. Bravo, L. F. Silveira. 2021. Species limits, patterns of secondary contact and a new species in the Trogon rufus complex (Aves: Trogonidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193:499–540 https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa169
30. Bocalini, F.*, S. D. Bolívar-Leguizamón*, L. F. Silveira, G. A. Bravo. 2021. Comparative phylogeographic and demographic analyses reveal a congruent pattern of sister relationships between bird populations of the northern and south-central Atlantic Forest. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 154:106973 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106973
29. Harvey, M. G.†, G. A. Bravo†, S. Claramunt, A. M. Cuervo, G. E. Derryberry, J. Battilana, G. F. Seeholzer, J. Shearer McKay, B. C. O'Meara, B. C. Faircloth, S. V. Edwards, J. Pérez-Emán, R. G. Moyle, F. H. Sheldon, A. Aleixo, B. T. Smith, R. T. Chesser, L. F. Silveira, J. Cracraft, R. T. Brumfield, E. P. Derryberry. 2020. The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot. Science 370: 1343–1348.
https://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.aaz6970
† Co-first authors
28. Corbett, E. C.**, G. A. Bravo, F. Schunck, L. N. Naka, L. F. Silveira, S. V. Edwards. 2020. Evidence for the Pleistocene Arc Hypothesis from genome-wide SNPs in a Neotropical dry forest specialist, the Rufous-fronted Thornbird (Furnariidae: Phacellodomus rufifrons). Molecular Ecology. 29:4457–4472 https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15640
27. Chesser, R. T., M. L. Isler, A. M. Cuervo, C. D. Cadena, S. C. Galen, L. M. Bergner, R. C. Fleischer, G. A. Bravo, D. F. Lane, P. A. Hosner. 2020. Conservative plumage masks extraordinary phylogenetic diversity in the Grallaria rufula (Rufous Antpitta) complex of the humid Andes. The Auk 137:1–25 https://doi.org/10.1093/auk/ukaa009
26. Bolívar-Leguizamón, S. D.*, L. F. Silveira, E. P. Derryberry, R. T. Brumfield, G. A. Bravo. 2020. Phylogeography of the Variable Anthsrike (Thamnophilus caerulescens), a South American passerine distributed along multiple environmental gradients. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 148:106810 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106810
25. Cadena, C. D., A. M. Cuervo, L. N. Céspedes, G. A. Bravo, N. Krabbe, T. S. Schulenberg, G. E. Derryberry, L. F. Silveira, E. P. Derryberry, R. T. Brumfield & J. Fjeldså. 2020. Systematics, biogeography and diversification of Scytalopus tapaculos (Rhinocryptidae), an enigmatic radiation of Neotropical montane birds. The Auk 137:1–30 https://doi.org/10.1093/auk/ukz077
24. Lamichhaney, S., D. C. Card, P. Grayson, J. F. R. Tonini, G. A. Bravo, K. Näpflin, F. Termignoni-Garcia, C. Torres, F. Burbrink, J. A. Clarke, T. B. Sackton, S. V. Edwards. 2019. Integrating natural history collections and comparative genomics to study the genetic architecture of convergent evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374:20180248 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0248
23. Oliveros, C. H., D. J. Field, D. T. Ksepka, F. K. Barker, A. Aleixo, M. J. Andersen, P. Alström, B. W. Benz, E. L. Braun, M. Braun, G. A Bravo, R. T. Brumfield, R. T. Chesser, S. Claramunt, J. Cracraft, A. M. Cuervo, E. P. Derryberry, T. C. Glenn , M. G. Harvey, P. A. Hosner, L. Joseph, R. T. Kimball, A. L. Mack, C. M. Miskelly, A. T. Peterson, M. B. Robbins, F. H. Sheldon, L. F. Silveira, B. T. Smith, N. D. White, R. G. Moyle, B. C. Faircloth. 2019. Earth history and the passerine superradiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1813206116 Supp. Material: www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10. 1073/pnas.1813206116/-/DCSupplemental
22. Bravo, G. A., A. Antonelli, C. D. Bacon, K. Bartoszek, M. P. K. Blom, S. Huynh, G. Jones, L. L. Knowles, S. Lamichhaney, T. Marcussen, H. Morlon, L. K. Nahkleh, B. Oxelman, B. Pfeil, A. Schliep, N. Wahlberg, F. P. Werneck, J. Wiedenhoeft, S. Willows-Munro, and S. V. Edwards. 2019. Embracing heterogeneity: coalescing the Tree of Life and the future of phylogenomics. PeerJ 7:e6399 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6399
21. Carneiro, L., G. A. Bravo, and A. Aleixo. 2019. Phenotypic similarity leads to taxonomic inconsistency: a revision of the genera Hylopezus and Mymothera (Passeriformes, Grallariidae), with description of a new genus from the Atlantic Forest. Zoologica Scripta 48:46–56. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12324
20. Van Doren, B. M., B. G. Freeman, N. Aristizábal, M. Álvarez-R, J. Pérez-Emán, A. M. Cuervo, and G. A. Bravo. 2018. Species limits in the Rustry-breasted Antpitta (Grallaricula ferrugineipectus) complex. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 130:152–167. https://doi.org/10.1676/16-126.1
19. Carneiro, L., G. A. Bravo, N. Aristizábal, A. M. Cuervo, and A. Aleixo. 2018. Molecular systematics and biogeography of lowland antpittas (Aves, Grallariidae): The role of vicariance and dispersal in the diversification of a widespread Neotropical lineage. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 120:375–389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2017.11.019
18. Ceriaco, L., E. E. Gutiérrez, A. Dubois [and 493 co-signatories]. 2016. Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences. Zootaxa 4196:435–445. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4196.3.9
17. Winger, B. M., P. A. Hosner, G. A. Bravo, A. M. Cuervo, N. Aristizábal, L. E. Cueto, and J. M. Bates. 2015. Inferring speciation history in the Andes with reduced-representation sequence data: an example in the bay-backed antpittas (Aves; Grallariidae; Grallaria hypoleuca s. l.). Molecular Ecology 24:6256–6277. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13477
16. Isler, M. L., G. A. Bravo, and R. T. Brumfield. 2014. Systematics of the obligate ant-following clade of antbirds (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae). Wilson Journal of Ornithology 126:635–648. https://doi.org/10.1676/13-199.1
15. Bravo, G. A., J. V. Remsen, Jr. and R. T. Brumfield. 2014. Adaptive processes drive ecomorphological convergent evolution in antwrens (Thamnophilidae). Evolution 68:2757–2774. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12506
14. Harvey, M. G., Seeholzer, G. F., D. Cáceres-A, B. M. Winger, J. G. Tello, F. Hernández-Camacho, M. A. Aponte-Justiniano, C. V. Duffie, S. Figueroa-Ramiírez, R. S. Terrill, C E. Brown, L. Alza, G. A. Bravo, M. Combe, O. Custodio, A. Quiñones-Zumaeta, A. Urbay-Tello, W. A. Garcia-Bravo, A. Z. Savit, F. W. Pezo-Ruiz, and W. M. Mauck. 2014. The avian biogeography of an Amazonian headwater: the upper Ucayali River, Peru. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 126:179–191. https://doi.org/10.1676/13-135.1
13. Isler, M. L., G. A. Bravo, and R. T. Brumfield. 2014. Inundicola Bravo, Isler, and Brumfield 2013 is a junior synonym of Akletos Dunajewski 1948 (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae). Zootaxa 3779:399–400
12. Tello, J. G., M. Raposo, J. M. Bates, G. A. Bravo, C. D. Cadena, and M. Maldonado-Coelho. 2014. Phylogenetic analyses of molecular data in reassessing the systematics of the widespread Neotropical genus Cercomacra (Aves, Thamnophilidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170:546–565.
11. Isler, M. L., G. A. Bravo, and R. T. Brumfield. 2013. Taxonomic revision of Myrmeciza (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) into 12 genera based on phylogenetic, morphological, behavioral, and ecological data. Zootaxa 3717:469–497.
10. Whitney, B. M., M. L. Isler, G. A. Bravo, N. Aristizábal, F. Schunck, L. F. Silveira, V. de Q. Piacentini, M. Cohn-Haft, and M. A. Rêgo. 2013. A new species of antbird in the Hypocnemis cantator complex from the Aripuanã-Machado interfluvium in central Amazonian Brazil. Pp. 282–285 in: del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, and D. A. Christie (eds.). 2013. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Special Volume: New Species and Global Index. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
9. Whitney, B. M., M. Cohn-Haft, G. A. Bravo, F. Schunck, and L. F. Silveira. 2013. A new species of Herpsilochmus antwren from the Aripuanã-Machado interfluvium in central Amazonian Brazil. Pp. 277–281 in: del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, and D. A. Christie (eds.). 2013. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Special Volume: New Species and Global Index. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
8. Cohn-Haft, M. and G. A. Bravo. 2013. A new species of Herpsilochmus antwren from west of the Rio Madeira in Amazonian Brazil. Pp. 272–276 in: del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, and D. A. Christie (eds.). 2013. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Special Volume: New Species and Global Index. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
7. Whitney, B. M., M. L. Isler, G. A. Bravo, N. Aristizábal, F. Schunck, L. F. Silveira, and V. de Q. Piacentin. 2013. A new species of Epinecrophylla antwren from the Aripuanã-Machado interfluvium in central Amazonian Brazil with revision of the “stipple-throated antwren” complex. Pp. 263–267 in: del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, and D. A. Christie (eds.). 2013. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Special Volume: New Species and Global Index. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
6. Belmonte-Lopes, R., G. A. Bravo, M. R. Bornschein, G. N. Maurício, M. R. Pie, and R. T. Brumfield. 2012. Genetic and morphological data support the placement of Myrmotherula gularis (Spix) in the monotypic genus Rhopias Cabanis and Heine (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae). Zootaxa 3451:1–16.
5. Isler, M. L., A. M. Cuervo, G. A. Bravo, and R. T. Brumfield. 2012. An integrative approach to species level systematics reveals the depth of diversification in an Andean thamnophilid, the Long-tailed Antbird. Condor 114:571-583.
4. Bravo, G. A., J. V. Remsen, Jr., B. M. Whitney, and R. T. Brumfield. 2012. DNA sequence data reveal a subfamily-level divergence within Thamnophilidae (Aves: Passeriformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65:287–293
3. Bravo, G. A., R. T. Chesser, and R. T. Brumfield. 2012. Isleria, a new genus of antwren (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae). Zootaxa 3195:61–67.
2. Gibbons, R. E., J. Barrio, G. A. Bravo, and L. Alza. 2011. Assessing the geographic range of Black-fronted Ground-Tyrants (Muscisaxicola frontalis) using extralimital and winter range occurrence records and ecological niche modeling. Journal of Field Ornithology 82:355–365.
1. Gómez, J. P., G. A. Bravo, R. T. Brumfield, J. G. Tello, and C. D. Cadena. 2010. A phylogenetic approach to disentangling the role of competition and habitat filtering in community assembly of Neotropical forest birds. Journal of Animal Ecology 79:1181–1192.
Other technical documents
2. Piacentini, V. Q., A. Aleixo, C. E. Agne, G. N. Maurício, J. F. Pacheco, G. A. Bravo, G. R. R. Brito, L. N. Naka, F. Olmos, S. R. Posso, L. F. Silveira, G. S. Betini, E. Carrano, I. Franz, A. Lees, L. Lima, D. Pioli, F. Schunck, F. R. do Amaral, G. A. Bencke, M. Cohn-Haft, L. F. A. Figueiredo, F. Straube and E. Cesari. 2015. Annotated checklist of the birds of Brazil by the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee / Lista comentada das aves do Brasil pelo Comitê Brasileiro de Registros Ornitológicos. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 23(2):91–298.
1. Claramunt, S., A. M. Cuervo, V. de Q. Piacentini, G. A. Bravo, and J. V. Remsen, Jr. 2014. Comment on Grallaria fenwickorum Barrera & Bartels, 2010 (Aves, GRALLARIIDAE): proposed replacement of an indeterminate holotype by a neotype (Case 3623; see BZN 70: 99–102, 256–269). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 71(1):40-43.
Contributed Book Chapters
5. Cortés-Herrera, J. O. & Bravo, G. A. 2014. Grallaria kaestneri, Tororoi de Cundinamarca, Cundinamarca Antpitta. In: Luis Miguel Renjifo; María Fernanda Gómez; Jorge Velásquez-Tibatá; Angel María Amaya-Villarreal; Gustavo H. Kattan; Juan David Amaya-Espinel; Jorge Burbano-Girón. (Org.). Libro Rojo de Aves de Colombia (Vol. I). Bosques húmedos de los Andes y la costa Pacífica. 1ed.Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, v. 1, p. 215-217.
4. Naranjo L. G. & Bravo G. A. 2006. Estado del conocimiento sobre aves acuáticas en Colombia. En: Chaves M. E. & Santamaría M. (eds.) 2006. Informe Nacional sobre los avances en conocimiento e información de biodiversidad 1998 – 2004. Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Ministerio de Ambiente, Vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial. Bogotá, Colombia.
3. Bravo G. A. & Naranjo L. G. 2006. Estado del conocimiento sobre aves terrestres en Colombia. En: Chaves M. E. & Santamaría M. (eds.) 2006. Informe Nacional sobre los avances en conocimiento e información de biodiversidad 1998 – 2004. Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Ministerio de Ambiente, Vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial. Bogotá, Colombia.
2. Franco, A. M. & G. A. Bravo. 2005. Áreas Importantes para la Conservación de las Aves en Colombia Pp. 117-282 In BirdLife International & Conservation International. Áreas Importantes para la Conservación de las Aves de los Andes Tropicales: sitios prioritarios para la conservación de la biodiversidad. Quito, Ecuador: BirdLife Internacional (Serie de Conservación de BirdLife No. 14)
1. Bravo G. A. 2004. Ecología alimentaria de la comunidad de aves ictiófagas durante la época seca en la confluencia Meta-Orinoco, Puerto Carreño, Colombia. En: Fauna acuática de la Orinoquia Colombiana. Trujillo, F. & Díazgranados, M. C. (Eds.) Fundación Omacha. Instituto Alexander von Humboldt. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia.
44. Bolívar-Leguizamón*, S., F. Bocalini*, L. F. Silveira, G. A. Bravo. 2024. The role of biogeographical barriers on the historical dynamics of passerine birds with a circum-Amazonian distribution. Ecology and Evolution 14:e10860 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10860
43. Bocalini, F*., S. Bolívar-Leguizamón*, L. F. Silveira, G. A. Bravo. 2023. Amazonian colonization from the Atlantic Forest: New perspectives on the connections of South American tropical forests. Molecular Ecology 32:6874–6895 https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17180
42. Gouvea, A.*, G. A. Bravo, P. T. Z. Antas, K. L. Schuchmann, L. F. Silveira. 2023. Rainy cycles in South America as drivers for the breeding of Rynchops niger and Phaetusa simplex (Aves, Charadriiformes). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63, e202363028. https://doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2023.63.028.
41. Fernández-Gómez, R. A., W. Ku-Peralta, D. Botero-Restrepo, N. Niño-Rodríguez, O.Laverde-R, H. E. Pantoja-Sánchez, G. A. Bravo, M.Álvarez-Rebolledo, O. H. Marín-Gómez, F. G. Duque, N.Ocampo-Peñuela. 2023. La voz de nuestras aves: contribuciones de la bioacústica a la ornitología colombiana. Ornitología Colombiana 23:3–10 https://doi.org/10.59517/oc.e555
40. Macedo, G.*, R. S. Marcondes, C. Biondo, G. A. Bravo, E. P. Derryberry. 2022. The evolution of sex similarities in social signals: climatic seasonality is associated with lower sexual dimorphism and greater elaboration of female and male signals in antbirds (Thamnophilidae). Evolution 76:2791–3078 https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14638
39. Cueva, D.*, G. A. Bravo, L. F. Silveira. 2022. Systematics of Thraupis (Aves, Passeriformes) reveals an extensive hybrid zone between T. episcopus (Blue-gray Tanager) and T. sayaca (Sayaca Tanager). PLoS One 17(10): e0270892 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270892
38. Tobias, J. A., C. Sheard, A. L. Pigot, A. J. M. Devenish, J. Yang, [...] G. A. Bravo, [...], and 104 other authors. 2022. AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25:581–597 https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898.
37. Macedo, G.*, G. A. Bravo, R. S. Marcondes, E. P. Derryberry, C. Biondo. 2021. Differences in plumage coloration predict female but not male territorial aggression in three antbird sister species pairs. Animal Behaviour 182:107–124 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.09.008
36. Singhal, S., G. E. Derryberry, G. A. Bravo, E. P. Derryberry, R. T. Brumfield, M. G. Harvey. 2021. The dynamics of introgression across an avian radiation. Evolution Letters 5:568–581 https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.256
35. Bravo, G. A., C. J. Schmitt, S. V. Edwards. 2021. What have we learned from the first 500 avian genomes? Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 52:611–639 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-012121-085928
34. Beco, R.*, L. F. Silveira, E. P. Derryberry, G. A. Bravo. 2021. Ecology and behavior predict an evolutionary trade-off between song complexity and elaborate plumages in antwrens (Aves, Thamnophilidae). Evolution 75:2388–2410 https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14325
33. Pacheco, J. F., L. F. Silveira, A. Aleixo, C. E. Agne, G. A. Bencke, G. A. Bravo, G. R. R. Brito, M. Cohn-Haft, G. N. Maurício, L. N. Naka, F. Olmos, S. R. Posso, A. C. Lees, L. F. A. Figuereido, E. Carrano, R. C. Guedes, E. Cesari, I. Franz, F. Schunck, V. Q. Piacentini. 2021. Annotated Checklist of the birds of Brazil by the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee – Second edition. Ornithology Research 29:94–105
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Press release
32. Bravo, G. A., B. M. Whitney, R. Belmonte-Lopes, M. R. Bornschein, N. Aristizábal, R. Beco*, J. Battilana, L. N. Naka, A. Aleixo, M. R. Pie, L. F. Silveira., E. P. Derryberry, R. T. Brumfield. 2021. Phylogenomic analyses reveal non-monophyly of the antbird genera Herpsilochmus and Sakesphorus (Thamnophilidae), with description of a new genus for Herpsilochmus sellowi. Ornithology 138:1–16 https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukab025
31. Dickens, J., P-P Bitton, G. A. Bravo, L. F. Silveira. 2021. Species limits, patterns of secondary contact and a new species in the Trogon rufus complex (Aves: Trogonidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193:499–540 https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa169
30. Bocalini, F.*, S. D. Bolívar-Leguizamón*, L. F. Silveira, G. A. Bravo. 2021. Comparative phylogeographic and demographic analyses reveal a congruent pattern of sister relationships between bird populations of the northern and south-central Atlantic Forest. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 154:106973 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106973
29. Harvey, M. G.†, G. A. Bravo†, S. Claramunt, A. M. Cuervo, G. E. Derryberry, J. Battilana, G. F. Seeholzer, J. Shearer McKay, B. C. O'Meara, B. C. Faircloth, S. V. Edwards, J. Pérez-Emán, R. G. Moyle, F. H. Sheldon, A. Aleixo, B. T. Smith, R. T. Chesser, L. F. Silveira, J. Cracraft, R. T. Brumfield, E. P. Derryberry. 2020. The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot. Science 370: 1343–1348.
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28. Corbett, E. C.**, G. A. Bravo, F. Schunck, L. N. Naka, L. F. Silveira, S. V. Edwards. 2020. Evidence for the Pleistocene Arc Hypothesis from genome-wide SNPs in a Neotropical dry forest specialist, the Rufous-fronted Thornbird (Furnariidae: Phacellodomus rufifrons). Molecular Ecology. 29:4457–4472 https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15640
27. Chesser, R. T., M. L. Isler, A. M. Cuervo, C. D. Cadena, S. C. Galen, L. M. Bergner, R. C. Fleischer, G. A. Bravo, D. F. Lane, P. A. Hosner. 2020. Conservative plumage masks extraordinary phylogenetic diversity in the Grallaria rufula (Rufous Antpitta) complex of the humid Andes. The Auk 137:1–25 https://doi.org/10.1093/auk/ukaa009
26. Bolívar-Leguizamón, S. D.*, L. F. Silveira, E. P. Derryberry, R. T. Brumfield, G. A. Bravo. 2020. Phylogeography of the Variable Anthsrike (Thamnophilus caerulescens), a South American passerine distributed along multiple environmental gradients. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 148:106810 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106810
25. Cadena, C. D., A. M. Cuervo, L. N. Céspedes, G. A. Bravo, N. Krabbe, T. S. Schulenberg, G. E. Derryberry, L. F. Silveira, E. P. Derryberry, R. T. Brumfield & J. Fjeldså. 2020. Systematics, biogeography and diversification of Scytalopus tapaculos (Rhinocryptidae), an enigmatic radiation of Neotropical montane birds. The Auk 137:1–30 https://doi.org/10.1093/auk/ukz077
24. Lamichhaney, S., D. C. Card, P. Grayson, J. F. R. Tonini, G. A. Bravo, K. Näpflin, F. Termignoni-Garcia, C. Torres, F. Burbrink, J. A. Clarke, T. B. Sackton, S. V. Edwards. 2019. Integrating natural history collections and comparative genomics to study the genetic architecture of convergent evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374:20180248 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0248
23. Oliveros, C. H., D. J. Field, D. T. Ksepka, F. K. Barker, A. Aleixo, M. J. Andersen, P. Alström, B. W. Benz, E. L. Braun, M. Braun, G. A Bravo, R. T. Brumfield, R. T. Chesser, S. Claramunt, J. Cracraft, A. M. Cuervo, E. P. Derryberry, T. C. Glenn , M. G. Harvey, P. A. Hosner, L. Joseph, R. T. Kimball, A. L. Mack, C. M. Miskelly, A. T. Peterson, M. B. Robbins, F. H. Sheldon, L. F. Silveira, B. T. Smith, N. D. White, R. G. Moyle, B. C. Faircloth. 2019. Earth history and the passerine superradiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1813206116 Supp. Material: www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10. 1073/pnas.1813206116/-/DCSupplemental
22. Bravo, G. A., A. Antonelli, C. D. Bacon, K. Bartoszek, M. P. K. Blom, S. Huynh, G. Jones, L. L. Knowles, S. Lamichhaney, T. Marcussen, H. Morlon, L. K. Nahkleh, B. Oxelman, B. Pfeil, A. Schliep, N. Wahlberg, F. P. Werneck, J. Wiedenhoeft, S. Willows-Munro, and S. V. Edwards. 2019. Embracing heterogeneity: coalescing the Tree of Life and the future of phylogenomics. PeerJ 7:e6399 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6399
21. Carneiro, L., G. A. Bravo, and A. Aleixo. 2019. Phenotypic similarity leads to taxonomic inconsistency: a revision of the genera Hylopezus and Mymothera (Passeriformes, Grallariidae), with description of a new genus from the Atlantic Forest. Zoologica Scripta 48:46–56. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12324
20. Van Doren, B. M., B. G. Freeman, N. Aristizábal, M. Álvarez-R, J. Pérez-Emán, A. M. Cuervo, and G. A. Bravo. 2018. Species limits in the Rustry-breasted Antpitta (Grallaricula ferrugineipectus) complex. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 130:152–167. https://doi.org/10.1676/16-126.1
19. Carneiro, L., G. A. Bravo, N. Aristizábal, A. M. Cuervo, and A. Aleixo. 2018. Molecular systematics and biogeography of lowland antpittas (Aves, Grallariidae): The role of vicariance and dispersal in the diversification of a widespread Neotropical lineage. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 120:375–389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2017.11.019
18. Ceriaco, L., E. E. Gutiérrez, A. Dubois [and 493 co-signatories]. 2016. Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences. Zootaxa 4196:435–445. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4196.3.9
17. Winger, B. M., P. A. Hosner, G. A. Bravo, A. M. Cuervo, N. Aristizábal, L. E. Cueto, and J. M. Bates. 2015. Inferring speciation history in the Andes with reduced-representation sequence data: an example in the bay-backed antpittas (Aves; Grallariidae; Grallaria hypoleuca s. l.). Molecular Ecology 24:6256–6277. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13477
16. Isler, M. L., G. A. Bravo, and R. T. Brumfield. 2014. Systematics of the obligate ant-following clade of antbirds (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae). Wilson Journal of Ornithology 126:635–648. https://doi.org/10.1676/13-199.1
15. Bravo, G. A., J. V. Remsen, Jr. and R. T. Brumfield. 2014. Adaptive processes drive ecomorphological convergent evolution in antwrens (Thamnophilidae). Evolution 68:2757–2774. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12506
14. Harvey, M. G., Seeholzer, G. F., D. Cáceres-A, B. M. Winger, J. G. Tello, F. Hernández-Camacho, M. A. Aponte-Justiniano, C. V. Duffie, S. Figueroa-Ramiírez, R. S. Terrill, C E. Brown, L. Alza, G. A. Bravo, M. Combe, O. Custodio, A. Quiñones-Zumaeta, A. Urbay-Tello, W. A. Garcia-Bravo, A. Z. Savit, F. W. Pezo-Ruiz, and W. M. Mauck. 2014. The avian biogeography of an Amazonian headwater: the upper Ucayali River, Peru. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 126:179–191. https://doi.org/10.1676/13-135.1
13. Isler, M. L., G. A. Bravo, and R. T. Brumfield. 2014. Inundicola Bravo, Isler, and Brumfield 2013 is a junior synonym of Akletos Dunajewski 1948 (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae). Zootaxa 3779:399–400
12. Tello, J. G., M. Raposo, J. M. Bates, G. A. Bravo, C. D. Cadena, and M. Maldonado-Coelho. 2014. Phylogenetic analyses of molecular data in reassessing the systematics of the widespread Neotropical genus Cercomacra (Aves, Thamnophilidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170:546–565.
11. Isler, M. L., G. A. Bravo, and R. T. Brumfield. 2013. Taxonomic revision of Myrmeciza (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) into 12 genera based on phylogenetic, morphological, behavioral, and ecological data. Zootaxa 3717:469–497.
10. Whitney, B. M., M. L. Isler, G. A. Bravo, N. Aristizábal, F. Schunck, L. F. Silveira, V. de Q. Piacentini, M. Cohn-Haft, and M. A. Rêgo. 2013. A new species of antbird in the Hypocnemis cantator complex from the Aripuanã-Machado interfluvium in central Amazonian Brazil. Pp. 282–285 in: del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, and D. A. Christie (eds.). 2013. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Special Volume: New Species and Global Index. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
9. Whitney, B. M., M. Cohn-Haft, G. A. Bravo, F. Schunck, and L. F. Silveira. 2013. A new species of Herpsilochmus antwren from the Aripuanã-Machado interfluvium in central Amazonian Brazil. Pp. 277–281 in: del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, and D. A. Christie (eds.). 2013. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Special Volume: New Species and Global Index. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
8. Cohn-Haft, M. and G. A. Bravo. 2013. A new species of Herpsilochmus antwren from west of the Rio Madeira in Amazonian Brazil. Pp. 272–276 in: del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, and D. A. Christie (eds.). 2013. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Special Volume: New Species and Global Index. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
7. Whitney, B. M., M. L. Isler, G. A. Bravo, N. Aristizábal, F. Schunck, L. F. Silveira, and V. de Q. Piacentin. 2013. A new species of Epinecrophylla antwren from the Aripuanã-Machado interfluvium in central Amazonian Brazil with revision of the “stipple-throated antwren” complex. Pp. 263–267 in: del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, and D. A. Christie (eds.). 2013. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Special Volume: New Species and Global Index. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
6. Belmonte-Lopes, R., G. A. Bravo, M. R. Bornschein, G. N. Maurício, M. R. Pie, and R. T. Brumfield. 2012. Genetic and morphological data support the placement of Myrmotherula gularis (Spix) in the monotypic genus Rhopias Cabanis and Heine (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae). Zootaxa 3451:1–16.
5. Isler, M. L., A. M. Cuervo, G. A. Bravo, and R. T. Brumfield. 2012. An integrative approach to species level systematics reveals the depth of diversification in an Andean thamnophilid, the Long-tailed Antbird. Condor 114:571-583.
4. Bravo, G. A., J. V. Remsen, Jr., B. M. Whitney, and R. T. Brumfield. 2012. DNA sequence data reveal a subfamily-level divergence within Thamnophilidae (Aves: Passeriformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65:287–293
3. Bravo, G. A., R. T. Chesser, and R. T. Brumfield. 2012. Isleria, a new genus of antwren (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae). Zootaxa 3195:61–67.
2. Gibbons, R. E., J. Barrio, G. A. Bravo, and L. Alza. 2011. Assessing the geographic range of Black-fronted Ground-Tyrants (Muscisaxicola frontalis) using extralimital and winter range occurrence records and ecological niche modeling. Journal of Field Ornithology 82:355–365.
1. Gómez, J. P., G. A. Bravo, R. T. Brumfield, J. G. Tello, and C. D. Cadena. 2010. A phylogenetic approach to disentangling the role of competition and habitat filtering in community assembly of Neotropical forest birds. Journal of Animal Ecology 79:1181–1192.
Other technical documents
2. Piacentini, V. Q., A. Aleixo, C. E. Agne, G. N. Maurício, J. F. Pacheco, G. A. Bravo, G. R. R. Brito, L. N. Naka, F. Olmos, S. R. Posso, L. F. Silveira, G. S. Betini, E. Carrano, I. Franz, A. Lees, L. Lima, D. Pioli, F. Schunck, F. R. do Amaral, G. A. Bencke, M. Cohn-Haft, L. F. A. Figueiredo, F. Straube and E. Cesari. 2015. Annotated checklist of the birds of Brazil by the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee / Lista comentada das aves do Brasil pelo Comitê Brasileiro de Registros Ornitológicos. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 23(2):91–298.
1. Claramunt, S., A. M. Cuervo, V. de Q. Piacentini, G. A. Bravo, and J. V. Remsen, Jr. 2014. Comment on Grallaria fenwickorum Barrera & Bartels, 2010 (Aves, GRALLARIIDAE): proposed replacement of an indeterminate holotype by a neotype (Case 3623; see BZN 70: 99–102, 256–269). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 71(1):40-43.
Contributed Book Chapters
5. Cortés-Herrera, J. O. & Bravo, G. A. 2014. Grallaria kaestneri, Tororoi de Cundinamarca, Cundinamarca Antpitta. In: Luis Miguel Renjifo; María Fernanda Gómez; Jorge Velásquez-Tibatá; Angel María Amaya-Villarreal; Gustavo H. Kattan; Juan David Amaya-Espinel; Jorge Burbano-Girón. (Org.). Libro Rojo de Aves de Colombia (Vol. I). Bosques húmedos de los Andes y la costa Pacífica. 1ed.Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, v. 1, p. 215-217.
4. Naranjo L. G. & Bravo G. A. 2006. Estado del conocimiento sobre aves acuáticas en Colombia. En: Chaves M. E. & Santamaría M. (eds.) 2006. Informe Nacional sobre los avances en conocimiento e información de biodiversidad 1998 – 2004. Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Ministerio de Ambiente, Vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial. Bogotá, Colombia.
3. Bravo G. A. & Naranjo L. G. 2006. Estado del conocimiento sobre aves terrestres en Colombia. En: Chaves M. E. & Santamaría M. (eds.) 2006. Informe Nacional sobre los avances en conocimiento e información de biodiversidad 1998 – 2004. Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Ministerio de Ambiente, Vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial. Bogotá, Colombia.
2. Franco, A. M. & G. A. Bravo. 2005. Áreas Importantes para la Conservación de las Aves en Colombia Pp. 117-282 In BirdLife International & Conservation International. Áreas Importantes para la Conservación de las Aves de los Andes Tropicales: sitios prioritarios para la conservación de la biodiversidad. Quito, Ecuador: BirdLife Internacional (Serie de Conservación de BirdLife No. 14)
1. Bravo G. A. 2004. Ecología alimentaria de la comunidad de aves ictiófagas durante la época seca en la confluencia Meta-Orinoco, Puerto Carreño, Colombia. En: Fauna acuática de la Orinoquia Colombiana. Trujillo, F. & Díazgranados, M. C. (Eds.) Fundación Omacha. Instituto Alexander von Humboldt. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia.