Outputs (53)

Social and biological correlates of wild meat consumption and trade by rural communities in the Jutaí river basin, Central Amazonia (2020)
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Rocha El Bizri, H., Morcatty, T., Ferreira, J., Mayor, P., Neto, C., Valsecchi, J., …Fa, J. (2020). Social and biological correlates of wild meat consumption and trade by rural communities in the Jutaí river basin, Central Amazonia. https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-40.2.183

Wild animals are an important source of food and income throughout the Amazon basin, particularly for forest-dependent communities living in the more remote regions. Through interviews in 51 households within 16 communities in the Jutaí River Extract... Read More about Social and biological correlates of wild meat consumption and trade by rural communities in the Jutaí river basin, Central Amazonia.

Age, religion, and taboos influence subsistence hunting by indigenous people of the Lower Madeira River, Brazilian Amazon (2020)
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Knoop, S., Morcatty, T., Rocha El Bizri, H., & Cheyne, S. (2020). Age, religion, and taboos influence subsistence hunting by indigenous people of the Lower Madeira River, Brazilian Amazon. https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-40.2.131

Subsistence hunting is an essential livelihood strategy of Indigenous people in the Amazon. The present study examines the aspects influencing hunting practices by the Indigenous Maraguá people in the central Amazon, Brazil. We used a Generalized Add... Read More about Age, religion, and taboos influence subsistence hunting by indigenous people of the Lower Madeira River, Brazilian Amazon.

Involving local communities for effective citizen science: determining game species' reproductive status to assess hunting effects in tropical forests (2020)
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Rocha El Bizri, H., Fa, J., Lemos, L., Campos-Silva, J., Neto, A., Valsecchi, J., & Mayor, P. (2020). Involving local communities for effective citizen science: determining game species' reproductive status to assess hunting effects in tropical forests. Journal of Applied Ecology, 58(2), 224-235. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13633

Involving communities in sustainable wildlife management in tropical forests can ensure food security and livelihoods of millions of forest dwellers that depend on wild meat, and also safeguard hunted species. Mathematical models have been developed... Read More about Involving local communities for effective citizen science: determining game species' reproductive status to assess hunting effects in tropical forests.

Fetal bone development in the lowland paca (Cuniculus paca, Rodentia, Cuniculidae) determined using ultrasonography (2020)
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da Silva, G., Monteiro, F., Pereira, T., de Matos, S., Andrade, R., & Rocha El Bizri, H. (2020). Fetal bone development in the lowland paca (Cuniculus paca, Rodentia, Cuniculidae) determined using ultrasonography. Journal of Anatomy, 237(1), 105-118. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13184

Studying the timing of the main events of embryonic and fetal development may clarify the strategies adopted by species to maximize neonatal survival and the consequences of these events for their life history. This study describes bone development d... Read More about Fetal bone development in the lowland paca (Cuniculus paca, Rodentia, Cuniculidae) determined using ultrasonography.

Urban wild meat consumption and trade in central Amazonia (2019)
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Rocha El Bizri, H., Morcatty, T., Valsecchi, J., & Mayor, P. (2019). Urban wild meat consumption and trade in central Amazonia. Conservation Biology, 34(2), 438-448. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13420

The switch from hunting wild meat for home consumption to supplying more lucrative city markets in Amazonia can adversely affect some game species. Despite this, information on the amounts of wild meat eaten in Amazonian cities is still limited. We e... Read More about Urban wild meat consumption and trade in central Amazonia.

Embryonic and fetal development of the collared peccary (Pecari tajacu) (2019)
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Mayor, P., da Silva, G., Andrade, R., Monteiro, F., & Rocha El Bizri, H. (2019). Embryonic and fetal development of the collared peccary (Pecari tajacu). Animal Reproduction Science, 208, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anireprosci.2019.106123

The relative timing of the main fetal development events in species determine the extent of fetal development at birth, which range along a gradient of having altricial and precocial traits. The results from this study allow for description of import... Read More about Embryonic and fetal development of the collared peccary (Pecari tajacu).

Assessing the minimum sampling effort required to reliably monitor wild meat trade in urban markets (2019)
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Mayor, P., Rocha El Bizri, H., Morcatty, T., Moya, K., Solis, S., & Bodmer, R. (2019). Assessing the minimum sampling effort required to reliably monitor wild meat trade in urban markets. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.180

The trade of wild meat generates great economic returns for local communities but at a cost of increasing harvest rates of game species. Monitoring wild meat trade in urban markets is a low-cost method that can be employed to assess impacts of huntin... Read More about Assessing the minimum sampling effort required to reliably monitor wild meat trade in urban markets.

Embryonic and fetal development of the red brocket deer (Mazama americana) (2019)
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Mayor, P., Pereira, T., Andrade, R., Gonzalez-Benavent, E., Monteiro, F., Bodmer, R., …Rocha El Bizri, H. (2019). Embryonic and fetal development of the red brocket deer (Mazama americana). Theriogenology, 134, 53-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.theriogenology.2019.05.015

The red brocket deer (Mazama americana), a medium-sized Neotropical ungulate, is one of the most hunted mammals in the Amazon. This study analyzes the intrauterine development in the red brocket deer through the description of the external and intern... Read More about Embryonic and fetal development of the red brocket deer (Mazama americana).

Long-term population monitoring of the threatened and endemic black-headed squirrel monkey (Saimiri vanzolinii) shows the importance of protected areas for primate conservation in Amazonia (2019)
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Paim, F., Rocha El Bizri, H., Paglia, A., & Quieroz, H. (2019). Long-term population monitoring of the threatened and endemic black-headed squirrel monkey (Saimiri vanzolinii) shows the importance of protected areas for primate conservation in Amazonia. American Journal of Primatology, 81(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22988

Population monitoring of endangered species is essential to the improvement of their management and conservation plans. The black-headed squirrel monkey (Saimiri vanzolinii) is a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List and has extreme geographical en... Read More about Long-term population monitoring of the threatened and endemic black-headed squirrel monkey (Saimiri vanzolinii) shows the importance of protected areas for primate conservation in Amazonia.

Age at sexual maturity, first parturition and reproductive senescence in wild lowland pacas (Cuniculus paca): implications for harvest sustainability (2019)
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Rocha El Bizri, H., Fa, J., Valsecchi, J., Bodmer, R., & Mayor, P. (in press). Age at sexual maturity, first parturition and reproductive senescence in wild lowland pacas (Cuniculus paca): implications for harvest sustainability. Animal Reproduction Science, 205, 105-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anireprosci.2019.04.009

Generation length (GL) of a mammal, calculated through the age at sexual maturity, first reproduction and reproductive senescence can be used to assess the capacity of a population of a species to withstand differing amounts of hunting pressure by hu... Read More about Age at sexual maturity, first parturition and reproductive senescence in wild lowland pacas (Cuniculus paca): implications for harvest sustainability.