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Polling the Public to Select Flagship Species for Tourism and Conservation—A ‘Big Five’ for the Peruvian Amazon?

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 2, February 2025.
Flagship species are used to promote conservation and tourism, but selecting species purely for prescribed appealing characteristics may overlook unique flagships or homogenise selections. A strategy of polling the public can more directly identify existing preferences for species for marketing.
Maribel Recharte   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Edge effects and social behavior in three platyrrhines

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Primatology, Volume 87, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract Social behavior is a key adaptation for group‐living primates. It is important to assess changes to social behavior in human‐impacted landscape zones to better understand the impact of anthropogenic disturbance on primate species. We investigated social behavior rate and type in three species of platyrrhines across 100 m anthropogenic edge and
Laura M. Bolt   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Depredación de Ctenosaura pectinata (Squamata: Iguanidae) por Lynx rufus (Carnivora: Felidae) en el Estado de Michoacán de Ocampo, México

open access: yesMammalogy Notes, 2020
El gato montés o lince rojo (Lynx rufus), es un felino de talla mediana con una amplia distribución en México y Norteamérica, para el cual se ha documentado su dieta a lo largo de toda su área de distribución, siendo los lagomorfos y los roedores sus ...
juan Charre-Medellin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unraveling Biogeographic Boundaries Within the Sierra Madre Oriental, México: An Endemicity Analysis Using a Taxonomically Diverse Dataset

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2025.
We provide boundaries of the Sierra Madre Oriental in Mexico through a multi‐taxa endemicity analysis. ABSTRACT The Sierra Madre Oriental (SMO) is a significant mountain range and one of Mexico's 14 biogeographical provinces. Its delimitation has been debated.
Irene Goyenechea Mayer‐Goyenechea   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Running over of mammals on roads of Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil [PDF]

open access: yesBiotemas, 2007
Road deaths represent a factor of great impact on fauna. This is probably one of the main causes of mortality, even for threatened species. However, studies on this subject are unknown in Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil.
Anderson Martins   +3 more
doaj  

Riqueza de especies y abundancia de mamíferos en el Centro de Rescate y Refugio de Vida Silvestre Valle Alto, provincia de Manabí (Ecuador)

open access: yesLa Técnica: Revista de las Agrociencias, 2019
Species richness and abundance of mammals in the Valle Alto Wildlife Rescue Centre and Wildlife Refuge, province of Manabí (Ecuador) Resumen Las poblaciones de mamíferos de la Región Costa de Ecuador han sido principalmente estudiadas dentro de las
Ramón Horacio Zambrano   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dos registros de atropellamiento de Leopardus wiedii y Herpailurus yagouaroundi (carnivora: felidae) en Yucatán, México

open access: yesMammalogy Notes, 2020
La mortalidad de la fauna silvestre debido a la colisión con vehículos es un problema poco estudiado. En México, se ha incrementado el interés por determinar los efectos negativos y las acciones de mitigación ante el impacto de las redes viales sobre las poblaciones de vertebrados silvestres.
Alvaro Monter-Pozos, Julio C. Hernandez
openaire   +3 more sources

Medium- and large-sized mammals in a steppic savanna area of the Brazilian Pampa: survey and conservation issues of a poorly known fauna

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Biology
The wildlife of the Brazilian Pampa is threatened by large-scale habitat loss, due in particular to the expansion of soybean cultivation and the conversion of grasslands areas into extensive areas of silviculture.
C. C. Espinosa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vertebrate diversity and biomass along a recovery gradient in a lowland tropical forest

open access: yesBiotropica, Volume 57, Issue 1, January 2025.
Deforestation of tropical forests has resulted in large areas of secondary forests with the potential for biodiversity to re‐establish to levels usually found in old‐growth forests. This study shows that diversity and biomass of mammals and birds in regenerating forests can recover to old‐growth levels within a relatively short time.
Nina Grella   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spirometra mansonoides (Cestoda:Diphyllobothriidae) nas fezes de felídeos atendidos em Porto Alegre/RS – um parasito negligenciado

open access: yesPubvet, 2019
Relata-se o diagnóstico coprológico de Spirometra mansonoides parasitando seis gatos urbanos (Felis catus) e um gato-maracajá (Leopardus wiedii) em 2018.
Sandra Márcia Tietz Marques   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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