scholarly journals Influence of vegetation physiognomy, elevation and fire frequency on medium and large mammals in two protected areas of the Espinhaço Range

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Ferreira de Pinho ◽  
Guilherme Braga Ferreira ◽  
Adriano Pereira Paglia
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Fire Frequency ◽  
Large Mammals ◽  
Espinhaço Range ◽  
Vegetation Physiognomy

Conservation strategies for Africa's large mammals

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 459 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Hanks
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Large Mammals ◽  
Isolated Populations ◽  
African Mammals ◽  
Wide Range

Africa’s large mammals are conserved for their aesthetic, scientific and economic values. Many of these species face a gloomy future precipitated by a combination of factors directly and indirectly influenced by the activities of man, including habitat loss, overexploitation, poor management of designated protected areas, and the vulnerability of small isolated populations. Africa’s designated protected areas and biodiversity hotspots are also under threat, highlighting the importance of embracing community participation to address accelerating poverty and malnutrition. Innovative strategies are required for the conservation of Africa’s mammals, such as the integration of a wide range of species in the production landscape, including the farming community. Transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) have been established with the combined objectives of conserving biodiversity, creating new jobs in the tourism and wildlife industry, and promoting a culture of peace. These areas extend far beyond traditional national parks, providing opportunities for integrating large mammals into sustainable land-use practices, at the same time as addressing some of the continent’s more pressing socioeconomic needs. Research on African mammals will inevitably have to change direction to accommodate the growing threats and changed circumstances. Priorities will include the identification of corridors associated with TFCA establishment, the determination of the economic value of certain species in consumptive use programmes, research on contraception as a management option in restricted areas, and further work on the indirect use value of species. There will also be worthwhile opportunities to be pursued with ex situ conservation programmes, but these need to be focussed more efficiently.

scholarly journals Inventory of flying, medium and large mammals from Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona, Magdalena, Colombia

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-39
Author(s):  
Juan S. Jiménez-Alvarado ◽  
Catalina Moreno-Díaz ◽  
Gina Olarte ◽  
Diego Zárrate-Charry ◽  
I. Mauricio Vela-Vargas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Large Mammals ◽  
Important Species ◽  
Complete Representation ◽  
Protected Areas Management ◽  
Biodiversity Inventories ◽  
Latin American Countries

Mammals are among the most important species for ecosystems dynamics and functioning (Sinclair 2003, Schipper et al. 2008). However, they are currently threatened worldwide, with nearly 25% of all species under risk (Schipper et al. 2008). Protected areas are critical for conserving biodiversity (Chape et al. 2005), and are the last stronghold for preserving a complete representation of the world´s ecosystems (Powell et al. 2000, Rodrigues et al. 2004, Forero-Medina & Joppa 2010). Despite their importance in conserving biodiversity, still basic information is lacking for its effective management (Chape et al. 2005, Knight et al. 2008). Previous analyses have assessed the degree of effectiveness of protected areas from a macroecological perspective (Chape et al. 2005, Ceballos 2007, González-Maya et al. 2015), but for most Latin American countries, still basic information regarding basic biodiversity inventories, and especially from mammals is lacking;undermining effective and efficient protected areas management. For Colombia this is especially critical, since most protected areas still lack the most basic mammal information, from inventories to most other ecological management-relevant information. Here we present the most updated inventory of flying, medium and large mammals from Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona, Magdalena, Colombia.

scholarly journals MAMÍFEROS DE MÉDIO E GRANDE PORTE NA ÁREA DE PROTEÇÃO AMBIENTAL MUNICIPAL DO RIO VERMELHO EM SANTA CATARINA, SUL DO BRASIL

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (03) ◽  
pp. 722-737
Author(s):  
Marcelo Hübel ◽  
◽  
Izar Aximoff ◽  
Antonio Carlos de Freitas ◽  
Clarissa Rosa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Camera Traps ◽  
Lepus Europaeus ◽  
Sampling Effort ◽  
Large Mammals ◽  
Mammal Species ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
Santa Catarina State

MEDIUM AND LARGE MAMMALS IN RIO VERMELHO MUNICIPAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AREA, SANTA CATARINA, SOUTHERN BRAZIL: Most studies on medium and large mammals in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest are carried out in areas under full protection (as parks and biological reserves). Considering the continuing threats that the forest remnants are suffering, it is essential to carry out mammal surveys in protected areas for sustainable use. In order to evaluate the species richness and the relative frequency of medium and large mammals in the área de proteção ambiental municipal do Rio Vermelho – APARV (northern Santa Catarina state), methodologies of direct visualization and camera traps were used. The study was conducted from the beginning of 2015 to the end of 2019. In Santa Catarina state, there is only one study which sampling effort is comparable to the present one (7300 night-trap). Thirty-three native mammal species and two alien species (Canis familiaris and Lepus europaeus) were found. The species accumulation curve tended to stabilize at the beginning of the third year. Three species were responsible for more than half of the photographic records (Cerdocyon thous, Eira barbara and Procyon cancrivorus). In total, 33.3% of the species are classified in some category of threat, and three of these species are among the less recorded in Santa Catarina state (Tayassu pecari, Tapirus terrestris and Mazama nana). Our survey added 18 new occurrences to the APARV management plan. Only two of the 18 mammal surveys carried out previously in the Santa Catarina state recorded more species than our study. This is the second survey which was carried out in protected areas for sustainable use in Santa Catarina state. Our study contributes to the important knowledge that can be used in conservation measures. In this way, the APARV plays a fundamental role for the conservation of the Atlantic Forest mammals, constituting an important area favoring the population movements of mammals.

scholarly journals Cladocerans (Crustacea: Anomopoda and Ctenopoda) of the Sempre Vivas National Park, Espinhaço Range, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Check List ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Diogo Rocha Sousa ◽  
Lourdes Maria Abdu Elmoor-Loureiro
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
National Park ◽  
New Records ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Espinhaço Range ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
First Time ◽  
Species Being

Protected areas are designed to maintain environmental conditions that favor the occurrence of a wide variety of taxa. However, few studies have devoted attention to inventories of biota in these areas. In this study, we provide a checklist of cladocerans for the poorly studied Sempre Vivas National Park, Minas Gerais state. Samples were collected in lotic and lentic environments, with a total of 27 species being recorded and the highest contribution coming from the Chydoridae family (21 spp.). Minas Gerais state is widely studied in relation to cladoceran fauna; nevertheless, the results indicate three new records. The genus Monospilus was reported for the first time in the Neotropical region.

scholarly journals The Vulnerable giant anteater Myrmecophaga tridactyla: new records from the Atlantic Forest highlands and an overview of its occurrence in protected areas in Brazil

Oryx ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 564-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando C. Passos ◽  
Michel C.H. Mello ◽  
Emiliana Isasi-Catalá ◽  
Raphael C. Mello ◽  
Itiberê P. Bernardi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
New Records ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Large Mammals ◽  
Species Occurrence ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Serra Do Mar

AbstractThe giant anteater Myrmecophaga tridactyla is categorized as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, and is extinct in several locations as a result of environmental pressures. We present the first records of the giant anteater in the largest continuous expanse of the Atlantic Forest biome, in southern Brazil, highlighting its occurrence in the highlands of the Serra do Mar mountain range. During a camera-trapping survey of medium and large mammals we obtained two records of the species, one in 2013 and the other in 2014. These records from dense rainforest highlands indicate the importance of this environment for the giant anteater and highlight these areas as possible foci for future studies of the species. In addition, we present a review of the species’ occurrence in protected areas in Brazil, to provide a resource for the conservation of this species and for future re-evaluations.

scholarly journals Coexistence of large mammals and humans is possible in Europe’s anthropogenic landscapes

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Cretois ◽  
John D C Linnell ◽  
Bram Van Moorter ◽  
Petra Kaczensky ◽  
Erlend B. Nilsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Human Disturbance ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scale Effects ◽  
Large Mammals ◽  
Critical Question ◽  
Anthropogenic Landscapes ◽  
Human Land Use ◽  
Human Footprint ◽  
Broad Scale

A critical question in the conservation of both large carnivores and wild ungulates is where they are able to live. In Europe, large mammals have persisted, and recently expanded, alongside humans for millennia, but surprisingly little quantitative data is available about large scale effects of human disturbance on their broad scale distribution. In this study, we quantify the relative importance of human land use and protected areas as opposed to biophysical constraints on large mammal distribution. We demonstrate that the broad scale distribution of most large mammals in Europe includes areas of high to very high human disturbance and is primarily driven by environmental variables rather than the human footprint or the presence of protected areas. We argue that coexistence between large mammals and humans is primarily determined by the willingness of humans to share multi-use landscapes with wildlife rather than the ability of wildlife to tolerate humans.

scholarly journals Measuring protected-area outcomes with leech iDNA: large-scale quantification of vertebrate biodiversity in Ailaoshan reserve

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinqiu Ji ◽  
Christopher CM Baker ◽  
Viorel D Popescu ◽  
Jiaxin Wang ◽  
Chunying Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Outcome Measure ◽  
Black Bear ◽  
Large Mammals ◽  
Management Effectiveness ◽  
Mammal Species ◽  
Occupancy Modelling ◽  
Species Occupancy ◽  
Domestic Mammal

1AbstractProtected areas are central to meeting biodiversity conservation goals, but measuring their effectiveness is challenging. We address this challenge by using DNA from leech-ingested bloodmeals to estimate vertebrate occupancies across the 677 km2 Ailaoshan reserve in Yunnan, China. 163 park rangers collected 30,468 leeches from 172 patrol areas. We identified 86 vertebrate species, including amphibians, mammals, birds, and squamates. Multi-species occupancy modelling showed that species richness increased with elevation and distance to reserve edge, including the distributions of most of the large mammals (e.g. sambar, black bear, serow, tufted deer). The exceptions were the three domestic mammal species (cows, sheep, goats) and muntjak deer, which were more common at lower elevations. Vertebrate occupancies are a granular, large-scale conservation-outcome measure that can be used to increase management effectiveness and thus to improve the contributions that protected areas make to achieving global biodiversity goals.建立自然保护区是实现生物多样性保护的核心措施, 然而如何评估其保护效率仍然是一 个难题。为了解决这一难题, 我们首次利用蚂蝗吸食血液中的DNA(iDNA)进行了一次 大规模的尝试, 对占地677平方公里的位于中国西南部云南省的哀牢山国家自然保护区进 行了一个全局的脊椎动物多样性的评估。在本研究中, 该保护区被划分成172个巡逻区, 由163位护林员在巡视过程中采集了总共30468只蚂蝗, 在这些蚂蝗的测序数据中, 我们鉴 定得到86个脊椎动物物种, 包括两栖类, 鸟类, 哺乳类, 爬行类。我们的多物种占据模型 分析结果显示:在群落水平, 物 丰富度和群落的平均分布随着海拔的升高而增加, 随着 与保护区边缘的距离的缩短而减少;而在物种水平, 三个家养动物物种(牛, 绵羊, 山 羊)和一个野生动物物种(赤麂)在海拔较低的靠近保护区边缘的地区分布更多, 而绝大 多数大型野生哺乳动物(如水鹿, 黑熊, 苏门羚, 黑麂, 野猪)则呈现相反的趋势, 在较 高海拔, 靠近保护区中央的地区分布更多。本研究的结果显示基于蚂蝗的iDNA技术可以为 评估自然保护区对脊椎动物的保护效率创建一个高效的, 可重复的, 易于被大众接受理解 的, 并且可以被审计的结果指标, 该指标可以用于评估保护区对脊椎动物多样性的保护效 率, 从而确保保护区有助于实现全球生物多样性目标。

Gauging the impact of management expertise on the distribution of large mammals across protected areas

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 1166-1176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng Li ◽  
William J. McShea ◽  
Dajun Wang ◽  
Zhi Lu ◽  
Xiaodong Gu
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Large Mammals ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Management Expertise

Modelling spatiotemporal variability in fires in semiarid savannas: a satellite-based assessment around Africa’s largest protected area

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niti B. Mishra ◽  
Kumar P. Mainali ◽  
Kelley A. Crews
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Null Model ◽  
Fire Regimes ◽  
Fire Frequency ◽  
Spatiotemporal Variability ◽  
Burned Area ◽  
Vegetation Types ◽  
Variance Explained

The relative importance of various drivers of fire regimes in savanna ecosystems can be location-specific. We utilised satellite-derived time-series burned area (2001–13) to examine how spatiotemporal variations in burned area and fire frequency were determined by rainfall, vegetation morphology and land use in semiarid savanna. Mean precipitation of the rainy season (Nov–Apr) had a strong and positive relationship with burned area in the following dry season (variance explained 63%), with the relationship being strongest inside protected areas (variance explained 73%). Burned area and fire frequency were higher in vegetation types with higher herbaceous cover, indicating a causal link between herbaceous load and fire. Among land use, fire frequency was highest in protected areas and lowest in farms and ranches. Spatial models (generalised linear models with Poisson and negative binomial distribution) accounting for spatial autocorrelation showed that land-use classes and vegetation types together explained approximately half of the deviance in null model (48%). Existence of fences and boreholes resulted in finer-scale spatial differences in fire frequency. There was minimal dependence of vegetation types on land-use classes in determining fire frequency (interaction between the two predictors was minimal). These results have significant implications for understanding drivers of fire activity in savanna ecosystems.

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