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Jaboticabal, Brasil
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What a team! Anhangá project. Measuring the impact of poaching on forest wildlife. @MarcusRowcliffe @GrottaNeto @AgenciaFAPESP @ImprensaUniara
LabCon team 🌿 recording gunshots in the field.
The idea is to train an algorithm to detect these sounds in bioacoustic recorder data 🌳.
Learn more at labconbr.org/projetos
@ImprensaUniara @AgenciaFAPESP
5/ Does phylogeny predict ecology? 🤔 Surprisingly, we found only a weak correlation between phylogenetic distance (PD) and ecological difference (ED), meaning habitat use evolved flexibly.
4/ But which antler type came first? 🧐 Using ancestral state reconstruction, we found that spiked antlers are actually the ancestral trait, with branched antlers evolving later in some lineages.
3/ We tested whether spiked-antlered species are more associated with forest environments than their branched-antlered relatives. 🌳 Our results? Yes! Spiked-antlered species show a stronger link to dense forests.
🧵 Paper alert🦌🌿
Why do some Neotropical deer look so similar despite not being closely related? Our latest study in @BiolJLinnSoc explores the evolutionary forces shaping their morphology. ⬇️ @ImprensaUniara @AgenciaFAPESP @GrottaNeto
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/b…
📢 Conservation takeaway: Protecting rainforest deer requires mitigating direct human pressures, not just preserving habitat.
🔗 Read more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
2/ Deer density varied widely (0.14–18.17 individuals/km²), with P. nemorivagus having the highest numbers.
Key threats? Poaching, domestic dog predation, disease from livestock & wild boar competition. These pressures may drive local extinctions if left unchecked.
1/ We sampled 24 sites in the Atlantic Forest using scat detection dogs and estimated deer density with the faecal standing crop method.
🚨 Paper alert @JAppliedEcology 🌿🦌
Human pressures—poaching, invasive species & domestic animals—are the strongest predictors of lower deer density in rainforest. 🧵👇@AgenciaFAPESP @ImprensaUniara @GrottaNeto @RullianRibeiro @ManoelaPinho @tatopassos @CNPq_Oficial
2/ However, AII did correlate with the Human Development Index (HDI), highlighting links between income, education & environmental impact.
1/ Remote-sensing indices like the Global Human Influence Index (GHII) didn’t correlate with our AII, suggesting they may miss key local pressures such as poaching, plant exploitation & invasive species.
Foi a diversão das férias! Que delícia de livro do @RegiLeme ! Que cara bacana! Terminei o livro me sentindo amigo do Regi.
