From the field: Using automated digital recording systems as effective tools for the monitoring of birds and amphibians

MA Acevedo… - Wildlife Society …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
There is a need to improve the quantity and quality of data in biodiversity monitoring
projects. We compared an automated digital recording system (ADRS) with traditional …

Drawing on traditional knowledge to identify and describe ecosystem services associated with Northern Amazon's multiple-use plants

AR Cummings, JM Read - International Journal of Biodiversity …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Tropical multiple-use plants provide an array of ecosystem services, including providing
food for wildlife, non-timber forest products (NTFPs) and commercial logs. As land-use and …

Knowledge and attitudes of children of the Rupununi: Implications for conservation in Guyana

MB Mulder, R Schacht, T Caro, J Schacht, B Caro - Biological Conservation, 2009 - Elsevier
Knowledge and attitudes of children towards wildlife and the environment were assessed
through questionnaires given to 366 children in 9 schools in southwest Guyana. Children's …

Estimating the diversity of tropical anurans in fragmented landscapes with acoustic monitoring: lessons from a sampling sufficiency perspective

PR Anunciação, LSM Sugai, F Martello… - Biodiversity and …, 2022 - Springer
Determining the distribution and abundance of populations is the first step toward assessing
biodiversity conservation status. This step is based on field observations that are largely …

Impact of low-intensity hunting on game species in and around the Kanuku Mountains Protected Area, Guyana

MT Hallett, AA Kinahan, R McGregor… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Unsustainable harvest is driving population declines in tropical forest species across the
globe. Despite maintaining the second highest percent forest cover in the world (85%) …

[HTML][HTML] Inventários biológicos rápidos de morcegos (Mammalia, Chiroptera) em três unidades de conservação do Amapá, Brasil

A Martins, E Bernard, R Gregorin - Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 2006 - SciELO Brasil
Com alta diversidade biológica e elevado grau de preservação, a porção norte da Bacia
Amazônica, e em especial o Estado do Amapá, são ainda relativamente pouco conhecidos …

Connectivity of neotropical river basins in the central Guiana Shield based on fish distributions

LS de Souza, JW Armbruster… - Frontiers in Forests and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The Guiana Shield in northeastern South America contains some of the largest tracts of
intact forests on the globe. Guyana alone has more than 80% forest cover. In south-central …

Mammal and tree diversity accumulate different types of soil organic matter in the northern Amazon

M Losada, AMM Cortizas, KM Silvius, S Varela… - IScience, 2023 - cell.com
Diversity of plants and animals influence soil carbon through their contributions to soil
organic matter (SOM). However, we do not know whether mammal and tree communities …

Morcegos em área de Floresta Montana, Visconde de Mauá, Resende, Rio de Janeiro

JL Luz, LM Costa, T Jordão-Nogueira… - Biota …, 2013 - SciELO Brasil
O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar uma lista de morcegos da região de Visconde de
Mauá, município de Resende, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, em área de Floresta Ombrófila …

Mammalian and avian diversity of the Rewa Head, Rupununi, Southern Guyana

RSA Pickles, NP McCann, AP Holland - Biota Neotropica, 2011 - SciELO Brasil
We report the results of a short expedition to the remote headwaters of the River Rewa, a
tributary of the River Essequibo in the Rupununi, Southern Guyana. We used a combination …