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Jaguar Density at the Northeastern Limit of Its Distribution in Mexico. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
This study presents the first estimate of jaguar density in northeastern Mexico using a spatial capture–recapture model with random thinning, which incorporates both identified and unidentified camera trap detections. Conducted over 91 days with 104 cameras, the model yielded a density of 1.29 individuals per 100 km2 in the El Cielo–Sierra de Tamalave ...
Manuel-de la Rosa ZA, Soria-Díaz L, Barriga-Vallejo C, Mendoza-Gutiérrez GR, Martínez-González N, Astudillo-Sánchez CC, Jiménez J.   +6 more
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Use of species' responses to cryptic anthropogenic disturbances for monitoring biodiversity outcomes in tropical forests. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Abstract Measuring area‐based conservation outcomes in tropical forests is challenging due to cryptic human disturbances (e.g., hunting). As a result, comparative studies of management strategies providing quantitative outcomes remain scarce, especially in the Neotropics.
Perera-Romero L, McNab R, Garcia-Anleu R, Polisar J, Sutherland C, Thornton D.   +5 more
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The Maya Are a People of Movement: Reconstructing Shifts in Maya Mobility From Oxygen Isotopes Across Three Millenia at Santa Rita Corozal (Chactemal), Northern Belize. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Objectives Decades of archaeological and bioarchaeological research have demonstrated that ancient Maya cities underwent dynamic changes over time, including shifts in sociopolitical organization as well as their cultural and economic ties to other areas of Mesoamerica.
Locker AJ, Chase DZ, Chase AF, Chase ASZ, Vallejos AP, Cano G, Rodriguez R, To'one Masehualoon NGO, Badillo M, Baker LJ, Tung TA, Smith RWA.   +11 more
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Microfacial Analyses on the Building Stones of the Maya Site of Calakmul

Environmental Earth Sciences, 2023
Abstract This article focuses on the petrographic and microfacial characterization of the building stones, buildings, monuments, and quarries of the archeological site of Calakmul to document aspects of composition, lithologies, and stone exploitation.
Claudia Araceli García-Solís, Patricia Quintana-Owen, Rubén Alfonso López-Doncel, Juan Francisco Illescas-Salinas   +3 more
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Map of Zoh-Laguna, Calakmul, Campeche, México. [PDF]

, 2015
A: Campeche State in Mexico. B: Calakmul County. C: Zoh-Laguna and Calakmul Biosphere Reserve.
Judith Ortega-Canto (774510), Austreberta Nazar-Beutelspacher (774511), Laura Huicochea-Gómez (774509), Alba Valdez-Tah (774508), Janine M. Ramsey (102213)   +4 more
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Cartografía participativa en la evaluación de actividades productivas y cobertura forestal en ejidos de Calakmul, México

Estudios Socioterritoriales: Revista de Geografía, 2022
La cartografía participativa es una técnica de investigación que permite construir mapas a partir de información colectiva. En este trabajo se generó una base para el monitoreo de la cobertura vegetal y uso del suelo en Calakmul.
Enrique Muñoz López, Roberto Franco Plata, Ligia Guadalupe Esparza Olguín, Eduardo Martínez Romero   +3 more
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Peccaries and their relationship with water availability and their predators in Calakmul, México [PDF]

Therya, 2020
A reduction in the frequency of rainfall and an increase in drought periods, as a consequence of climatic change, has caused the desiccation of water ponds (locally known as “aguadas”) in the Calakmul region. The objective of this study was to determine if the abundance and distribution of the white-lipped peccary, Tayassu pecari, and the collared ...
Khiavett Sanchez-Pinzon, Rafael Reyna-Hurtado, Eduardo J. Naranjo, Alexine Keuroghlian   +3 more
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Daily life of the ancient Maya recorded on murals at Calakmul, Mexico [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009
Research into ancient societies frequently faces a major challenge in accessing the lives of those who made up the majority of their populations, since the available evidence so often concerns only the ruling elite. Our excavations at the ancient Maya site of Calakmul, Mexico, have uncovered a “painted pyramid:” a structure decorated with murals ...
Ramón, Carrasco Vargas, Verónica A Vázquez, López, Simon, Martin   +2 more
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DETECTION OF MAYA SACBEOB (SACBES) USING OPTICAL AND SAR IMAGERY IN NORTHERN PETÉN, MEXICO [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022
The pre-Contact Maya peoples build roads (Sacbeob) to facilitate movement between and within cities and surroundings. Given the dense forest cover in the Lowland Maya region now known as Yucatan, ground surveys of sacbeob are time-consuming and ...
A. LaRocque, B. Leblon, J. Ek, W. J. Folan   +3 more
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Collared Peccary Wallows are Hubs of Animal Activity and Diversity in a Central American Wet Forest. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Collared peccary wallows are used by a diverse assemblage of vertebrates in a Central American tropical wet forest. Wallows had significantly higher vertebrate activity and diversity compared to surrounding forest. Wallow visitors included 13 amphibian, 2 reptile, 11 bird, and 16 mammal species, engaged in behaviors including reproduction, drinking ...
Eckhoff A, Medina-Charriez A, Zerger M, Romero A, Hackney D, Aide TM, Reider K.   +6 more
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