Water availability not fruitfall modulates the dry season distribution of frugivorous terrestrial vertebrates in a lowland Amazon forest

OSL Paredes, D Norris, TG Oliveira, F Michalski - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Terrestrial vertebrate frugivores constitute one of the major guilds in tropical forests.
Previous studies show that the meso-scale distribution of this group is only weakly explained …

A menu of climate change adaptation actions for terrestrial wildlife management

SD Handler, OE Ledee, CL Hoving… - Wildlife Society …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The real‐world application of climate change adaptation practices in terrestrial wildlife
conservation has been slowed by a lack of practical guidance for wildlife managers …

Diversity, abundance and the impact of hunting on large mammals in two contrasting forest sites in northern amazon

ÉR de Andrade Melo, JR Gadelha… - Wildlife …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A variety of Amazonian mammals serve as sources of food for its human inhabitants, but
hunting can have a strong negative impact on them. Diversity, abundance, biomass, and …

Response of frugivorous primates to changes in fruit supply in a northern Amazonian forest

I Mourthé - Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2014 - SciELO Brasil
Few attempts have been made to understand how spatiotemporal changes in fruit supply
influence frugivores in tropical forests. The marked spatiotemporal variation in fruit supply …

Fruit availability drives the distribution of a folivorous–frugivorous primate within a large forest remnant

D Camaratta, ÓM Chaves… - American Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the ecological factors that influence the presence, abundance, and
distribution of species within their habitats is critical for ensuring their long‐term …

Biomass and demographic dynamics of the Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) in a mature Central Amazon rain forest

T Milton, PACL Assunção, N Cabello, S Mori… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, we analyze the demographic rates and biomass dynamics of Lecythidaceae in
a 100-ha permanent forest plot in the Central Amazon. We characterize habitats in the plot …

Habitat use, fruit consumption, and population density of the black-headed night monkey, Aotus nigriceps, in southeastern Peru

WD Helenbrook, ML Wilkinson, JA Suarez - Acta Amazonica, 2019 - SciELO Brasil
The black-headed night monkey, Aotus nigriceps, has one of the largest distribution ranges
of the 11 night monkey species found across Central and South America. Yet, only three …

Terrestrial mammal assemblages in protected and human impacted areas in Northern Brazilian Amazonia

RB Luna, AF Alfonso Reyes… - Volume 22, Pags …, 2017 - repositorio.inpa.gov.br
Mammal communities in the vicinity of human settlements are often subject to subsistence
hunting and retaliatory killings. We used fourteen digital camera traps equipped with infrared …

Multi-taxa surveys: integrating ecosystem processes and user demands

WE Magnusson, B Lawson, F Baccaro… - Applied ecology and …, 2014 - Springer
Globally, natural resource management agencies are increasingly recognizing the
importance of long-term ecological research (LTER) for monitoring biodiversity, ranging from …

The occurrence of leucism in groups of tayras Eira barbara Linnaeus 1758 on the Guyana shield

AR Mendes Pontes, AP da Silva Júnior, D Chivers - Ecoscience, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
We report leucism in groups of up to five tayras, Eira barbara, in a fish-bone human
settlement in southern Roraima, centre of the Guyana shield of the Brazilian Amazonia …