Publications

Ribas, Camila C., André O. Sawakuchi, Renato Paes de Almeida, Fabiano N. Pupim, Marco A. Rego, Romina Batista, L. Lacey Knowles .2025. The role of rivers in the origin and future of Amazonian biodiversity. Nature Reviews Biodiversity 1(1):14-31. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-024-00001-0 

Rego, Marco A., G. Del-Rio, R. T. Brumfield. 2024. Subspecies-level distribution maps for birds of the Amazon basin and adjacent areas. Journal of Biogeography 51(1): 14-28. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14718

Capurucho, J. M. G., L. J. Musher, A.Lees, Marco A. Rego, G. Del-Rio, A. Aleixo, V. E. Luzuriaga-Aveiga, M. Ferreira, C. C. Ribas, G. Thom. 2023. Amazonian avian biogeography: Broadscale patterns, microevolutionary processes, and habitat-specific models revealed by multidisciplinary approaches. Ornithology, ukad051, https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukad051.

Musher, L. J., M. Giakoumis, J. Albert, G. Del-Rio, Marco A. Rego, G. Thom, A. Aleixo, C. C. Ribas, R. T. Brumfield, B. T. Smith, and J. Cracraft. 2022. River network rearrangements promote speciation in lowland Amazonian birds. Science Advances, 8(14), eabn1099. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abn1099

Schunck, F., Marco A. Rego, L. F. Silveira, C. Candia-Gallardo. 2022. Are recaptures of banded birds efficient at detecting altitudinal migrations in the Atlantic Forest? Zoologia 39: e22025. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-4689.v39.e22025

Cavarzere, V., J. J. Roper, Marco A. Rego, A. C. de Luca, T. V. V. da Costa, and L. F. Silveira. 2022. Avian Assemblages in Forest Fragments do not Sum to the Expected Regional Community in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Zoological Studies 61: 74.

Del-Rio, G., M. J. Mutchler, B. Costa, A. E. Hiller, G. Lima, B. Matinata, J. F. Salter, L. F. Silveira, Marco A. Rego, and D. C. Schmitt. 2021. ‘Birds of the Juruá River: Extensive Várzea Forest as a Barrier to Terra Firme Birds’. Journal of Ornithology, 1–13.

Del‐Rio, G., Marco A. Rego, B. M. Whitney, F. Schunck, L. F. Silveira, B. C. Faircloth, and R. T. Brumfield. 2021. Displaced clines in an avian hybrid zone (Thamnophilidae: Rhegmatorhina) within an Amazonian interfluve. Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14377.

Costa, T. V. V., V. de Q. Piacentini, D. M. M. Oliveira, F. Schunck, B. M. Whitney, Marco A. Rego, T. C. Rubio, et al. 2017. New Records of the Enigmatic Clytoctantes atrogularis (Thamnophilidae) in Amazonian Brazil, with Remarks on Plumage, Natural History, and Distribution. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 129 (1): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1676/1559-4491-129.1.1.

Del-Rio, G., Marco A. Rego, L. F. Silveira, and A. Itoh. 2017. Plant Invasion: Another Threat to the São Paulo Marsh Antwren (Formicivora paludicola), a Species on the Verge of Extinction. PloS One 12 (12): e0189465. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189465.

Tonetti, V. R., Marco A. Rego, A. C. De Luca, P. F. Develey, F. Schunck, and L. F. Silveira. 2017. Historical Knowledge, Richness and Relative Representativeness of the Avifauna of the Largest Native Urban Rainforest in the World. Zoologia 34: e13728. https://doi.org/10.3897/zoologia.34.e13728.

Del-Rio, G., Marco A. Rego, and L. F. Silveira. 2015. A Multiscale Approach Indicates a Severe Reduction in Atlantic Forest Wetlands and Highlights That São Paulo Marsh Antwren Is on the Brink of Extinction. PloS One 10 (3): e0121315. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121315.

Cavarzere, V., G. Del-Rio, F. Schunck, V. de Q. Piacentini, Marco A. Rego, M. Somenzari, and Luís Fábio Silveira. 2015. Wintering Sporophila Seedeaters in an Amazonian–Cerrado Ecotone in Central Brazil. Cotinga 37: 57.

Marcondes, R. S., G. Del-Rio, Marco A. Rego, and L. F. Silveira. 2014. Geographic and Seasonal Distribution of a Little-Known Brazilian Endemic Rail (Aramides mangle) Inferred from Occurrence Records and Ecological Niche Modeling. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 126 (4): 663–672. http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1676/13-165.1.

Rego, Marco A., G. Del-Rio, and L. F. Silveira. 2014. A Taxonomic Review of Picumnus exilis (Aves: Picidae) Reveals an Underestimation of Piculet Species Diversity in South America. Journal of Ornithology 155 (4): 853–867. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-014-1081-5.

Cavarzere, V., F. Alves, E. Machado, Marco A. Rego, L. F. Silveira, M. M. Costa, and A. Calonge-Méndez. 2013. Evaluation of Methodological Protocols Using Point Counts and Mist Nets: A Case Study in Southeastern Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 53 (26): 345–357.

Del-Rio, G., L. F. Silveira, V. Cavarzere, and Marco A. Rego. 2013. A Taxonomic Review of the Golden-Green Woodpecker, Piculus chrysochloros (Aves: Picidae) Reveals the Existence of Six Valid Taxa. Zootaxa 3626: 531–542. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3626.4.7.

Rego, Marco A., L. Moreira-Lima, L. F. Silveira, S. Frahnert. 2013. On the Ornithological Collection of Friedrich Sellow in Brazil (1814–1831), with Some Considerations about the Provenance of His Specimens. Zootaxa 3616 (5): 478–484. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3616.5.4.

Whitney, B. M., M. L. Isler, Marco A Rego, and G. A. Bravo. 2013. A New Species of Antbird in the Hypocnemis cantator Complex from the Aripuanã-Machado Interfluvium in Central Amazonian Brazil. In Handbook of the Birds of the World. Special Volume: New Species and Global Index., 17:282–285. Lynx Edicions.

Whitney, B. M., Marco A. Rego, V. de Q. Piacentini, and F. Schunck. 2013. A Name for Striolated Puffbird West of the Rio Madeira with Revision of the Nystalus striolatus (Aves: Bucconidae) Complex. In Handbook of the Birds of the World. Special Volume: New Species and Global Index, 17:240–244. Lynx Edicions.

Whitney, B. M., F. Schunck, Marco A. Rego, and L. F. Silveira. 2013. A New Species of Flycatcher in the Tolmomyias assimilis Radiation from the Lower Sucunduri-Tapajós Interfluvium in Central Amazonian Brazil Heralds a New Chapter in Amazonian Biogeography. In Handbook of the Birds of the World. Special Volume: New Species and Global Index, 17:297–300. Lynx Edicions.

Whitney, B. M., F. Schunck, Marco A. Rego, and L. F. Silveira. 2013. A New Species of Zimmerius Tyrannulet from the Upper Madeira-Tapajós Interfluvium in Central Amazonian Brazil: Birds Don’t Always Occur Where They Should. In Handbook of the Birds of the World. Special Volume: New Species and Global Index, 17:286–291. Lynx Edicions.

Schunck, F., V. de Q. Piacentini, E. A. de Souza, A. E. B. A. de Souza, Marco A. Rego, C. Albano, M. F. C. Nunes, et al. 2012. Birds of the Lower Middle São Francisco River. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 20 (3): 350–364.

Rego, Marco A., L. F. Silveira, V. de Q. Piacentini, F. Schunck, E. Machado, R. T. Pinheiro, and E. Reis. 2011. As Aves Da Estação Ecológica Serra Geral Do Tocantins, Centro Do Brasil. Biota Neotropica 11 (1): 283–297.

Schunck, F., A. C. De Luca, V. de Q. Piacentini, Marco A. Rego, B. Rennó, and A. H. Correa. 2011. Avifauna of Two Localities in the South of Amapá, Brazil, with Comments on the Distribution and Taxonomy of Some Species. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 19 (2): 93–107.

Somenzari, M., L. F. Silveira, V. de Q. Piacentini, Marco A. Rego, F. Schunck, and V. Cavarzere. 2011. Birds of an Amazonia-Cerrado Ecotone in Southern Pará, Brazil, and the Efficiency of Associating Multiple Methods in Avifaunal Inventories. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 19 (2): 260–275.

Rego, Marco A., S. Dantas, E. Guilherme, and P. Martuscelli. 2009. First Records of Fine–Barred Piculet Picumnus subtilis from Acre, Western Amazonia, Brazil. Bulletin of British Ornithologists’ Club 129: 182–185.