The role of protected and unprotected forest remnants for mammal conservation in a megadiverse Neotropical hotspot

Magioli, Marcelo; Rios, Elaine; Benchimol, Maíra; Casanova, Diogo Cavenague; Ferreira, Aluane Silva; Rocha, Joedison; Melo, Fabiano Rodrigues de; Dias, Marcelino Pinto; Narezi, Gabriela; Crepaldi, Maria Otávia Silva; Mendes, Lúcia Ângelo Machado; Nobre, Rodrigo de Almeida; Chiarello, Adriano Garcia; García-Olaechea, Álvaro; Nobre, Andrezza Bellotto; Devids, Camila Cantagallo; Cassano, Camila Righetto; Koike, Christine Del Vechio; Bernardo, Christine Steiner São; Homem, Daniel Henrique; Ferraz, Daniel da Silva; Abreu, Diego Leal; Cazetta, Eliana; Lima, Elson Fernandes de; Bonfim, Fernando César Gonçalves; Lima, Fernando; Prado, Helena Alves do; Santos, Henrique Gonçalves; Nodari, Joana Zorzal; Giovanelli, João Gabriel Ribeiro; Nery, Marcello S.; Faria, Michel Barros; Ferreira, Priscila Coutinho Ribas; Gomes, Priscilla Sales; Rodarte, Raisa Reis de Paula; Borges, Rodrigo L.; Zuccolotto, Thais Fanttini Sagrillo; Sarcinelli, Tathiane Santi; Endo, Whaldener; Matsuda, Y.; Camargos, Virgínia Londe de; Morato, Ronaldo Gonçalves

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109173

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“…The data presented here regarding composition, richness, and conservation status of mammal species in the ARIE-FC highlight the high biological value of this protected area. They also reinforce the importance of the small native forest fragments, which contribute significantly to increasing the diversity at the landscape level providing valuable habitats for many forest species and playing an important role as stepping stones and, thus, preventing local extinctions (Turner and Corlett 1996;Ribeiro et al 2009;Magioli et al 2021aMagioli et al , 2021b. Approximately half of the mammal species recorded in the ARIE-FC are classified under some threat level or are near or presumably threatened, stressing the importance of including the conservation value of the small fragments in specific management and conservation policies (Pellens et al 2009;Ribeiro et al 2009).…”

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confidence: 62%

“…There is a strong correlation between the species richness of medium-sized and large mammals and the protection status of natural areas, with greater richness displayed in protected areas (Souza et al 2019;Magioli et al 2021b). However, several other factors influence the number of species capable of maintaining viable populations in a forest fragment, such as the size and degree of isolation of the fragment, the frequency and intensity of human disturbance, and the nature of the surrounding vegetation, irrespective of the protection status (Turner and Corlett 1996).…”

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Medium-sized and large mammals of the Floresta da Cicuta Area of Relevant Ecological Interest, a protected area in southeastern Brazil

Alves¹,

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Furtado³

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The Atlantic Forest is one of the most biodiverse biomes in the world and has been severely degraded and fragmented, with the extirpation of most medium-sized and large vertebrates from the forest remnants. Here we present the results of a survey of medium-sized and large mammals in an area of protected seasonal semideciduous forest, the Floresta da Cicuta Area of Relevant Ecological Interest (ARIE-FC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, part the Atlantic Forest biome. We used camera traps (2,257 camera days) and direct observations over a 23-month period. We recorded 19 species (including two domestic species), seven of which are classified as at-risk, such as Leopardus guttulus (Hensel, 1872), Sylvilagus tapetillus Thomas, 1913, Alouatta clamitans Cabrera, 1940, and Chrysocyon brachyurus (Illiger, 1815). A diverse terrestrial mammal assemblage in the ARIE-FC reinforces the importance of small forest fragments for the conservation of biodiversity in human-modified landscapes of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.

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Medium-sized and large mammals of the Floresta da Cicuta Area of Relevant Ecological Interest, a protected area in southeastern Brazil

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Miranda²,

Furtado³

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“…While previous research on CCs evaluates their effectiveness for reducing deforestation and mitigating climate change (Vuohelainen et al 2012), their value for biodiversity conservation has little empirical evidence (Magioli et al 2021). This study adds to the knowledge that CCs can have a significant species richness and relative abundance comparable to those of national parks but may not hold the same value for threatened species that are often particularly sensitive to disturbance.…”

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National parks and conservation concessions: a comparison between mammal populations in two types of tropical protected areas in Ucayali, Peru

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Hyde²,

Gallo³

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J. Trop. Ecol.

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Peru contains the second largest surface area of the Amazon biome. The Peruvian Amazon is threatened by logging, illegal crops, mining, and agricultural expansion. While a number of national parks exist in the Amazon region, privately managed areas like Conservation Concessions can be an attractive complement to existing parks. We compare medium and large mammal communities in a Conservation Concession in Ucayali with the nearby Parque Nacional Sierra del Divisor National Park and describe species relative abundance and richness of both protected areas. Results suggest that Conservation Concessions can harbour an important diversity of mammal species and could provide connections to larger protected areas. However, they are no substitutes for large protected areas, especially for sensitive and threatened species. Further research is needed to demonstrate their complementarity and improve landscape-level connectivity between conservation models.

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“…For another 18 species of mammals and 30 of reptiles, no information is available. Although protected areas are an essential part of any conservation strategy and some authors defend their distribution more coincident with hotspots of endemism (Dalapicolla et al, 2021) or the lands that in the future will house endemic threatened species (Gonçalves-Souza et al, 2020), it is becoming increasingly clear that they will not be enough to maintain species and biodiversity conservation will need to extend beyond them (Fischer et al, 2006;Magioli et al, 2021). This vision highlights the importance of other instruments for the conservation of biodiversity, in addition to protected areas, mainly the strategic planning of actions for the conservation of species, involving the entire range of organizations and individuals interested in species and their habitat (IUCN, 2019a).…”

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Agricultural activities and threat to fauna in Brazil: an analysis of the Red Book of Endangered Brazilian Fauna

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The recent edition of the Red Book of Endangered Brazilian Fauna brings 1,173 threatened species, 86% of them in terrestrial or freshwater environments. For these species, the main threat vector is agricultural activities that affect 519 species (51%). This information brought by the Red Book is examined in-depth and its consistency is discussed in search of an objective view on the impacts of agriculture, its importance, how they affect the different groups of animals, the different biomes of the country, and the different types of habitats continental. Birds, fish, and invertebrates are the groups with the highest number of species threatened by agricultural activity, accounting for more than 70% of the species. Habitat loss is by far the biggest impact caused by the activity, affecting almost 90% of the species. However, there is a difference between the impact of agriculture and livestock. The work seeks to understand why livestock threatens a smaller number of species, although pastures occupy more than twice the area occupied by crops and forestry. The work brings an objective debate on the relationship between agricultural activities and the conservation of wild fauna in Brazil, without falling into the trap of the useless demonization of human activities, highlighting, instead, the need to define and implement strategies for the conservation of biodiversity in the midst the land use matrix itself, complementary to the conservation units, based on the best available information on the vulnerability of fauna to the impacts of this vector.

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The role of protected and unprotected forest remnants for mammal conservation in a megadiverse Neotropical hotspot

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Medium-sized and large mammals of the Floresta da Cicuta Area of Relevant Ecological Interest, a protected area in southeastern Brazil

Medium-sized and large mammals of the Floresta da Cicuta Area of Relevant Ecological Interest, a protected area in southeastern Brazil

National parks and conservation concessions: a comparison between mammal populations in two types of tropical protected areas in Ucayali, Peru

Agricultural activities and threat to fauna in Brazil: an analysis of the Red Book of Endangered Brazilian Fauna

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