Systematics, Evolution and Conservation of Eastern Brazilian Mammals

• Grant number: 98/05075-7
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Thematic Grants
• Start date: March 01, 1999
• End date: June 30, 2004
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology
• Principal Investigator: Mario de Vivo
• Grantee: Mario de Vivo
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil
• Pesquisadores principais: Valdir Antonio Taddei
• Associated scholarship(s): 01/08602-2 - Faunistic patterns in the Atlantic Rainforest: the small mammals (Didelphimorphia, Rodentia, Chiroptera), BP.DR; 00/08261-8 - Systematics of mouse opossums of the Marmosa and Marmosops (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidade), BP.DR; 00/06642-4 - Small terrestrial mammals of the Cerrado bioma: local and regional faunistic patterns, BP.DR; + associated scholarships 00/07808-3 - Marsupials (Didelphimorphia) in the State of São Paulo: distribution and morphology, BP.IC; 99/09473-0 - Determination of the sex of individuals in the monitoring and study of the dynamic of a population of wild mammals through the dosage of metabolites of hormones in the faeces, BP.PD; 99/02403-6 - Systematics, phylogeography, and evolution of the chiropterans of east Brazil, BP.PD - associated scholarships

Abstract

Eastern Brazil possess one of richest endemic mammal faunas of South America. It is also the most economically developed region of Brazil, with severe consequences to natural ecosystems. MY study of the diversity of the mammal fauna of this region must contemplate systematic and evolutionary studies, as well as those devoted to conservation. The need for systematic and evolutionary studies is explained by the extensive gaps in our knowledge of the mammalian taxa of the region, their geographic distributions, their evolutionary history viz a viz that of the ecosystems they inhabit. We believe that most of the knowledge produced by systematic studies have a decisive impact on decisions made to preserve the mammalian fauna and the ecosystems in which they occur, beginning with a much more precise listing and quantification of the diversity to be preserved, and also the definition of geographic areas where significant fractions of this diversity are located. Besides this, Brazil do not presently have a sustained program of population monitoring for important mammal species. This results in the fact that National Parks and Biological Reserves are created in the country without any means for the responsible Federal and State institutions to know if the reserves are being effective in the conservation of the mammalian fauna in particular and biotas in general. Thus, this project has two main goals: a) recognize, describe, map mammalian taxa in the region encompassed by the project, as well as to propose hypothesis about the evolution of eastern Brazilian mammal faunas; and b) elaborate a low cost protocol for the monitoring of selected key species of mammals for very long periods of time, to be applied by institutions responsible for the maintenance of biological reserves in Brazil. The systematic part of this project will be approached through the collection of specimens and their study under anatomical, cytogenetic and molecular studies, with ample consultation to existing collections of mammals. The population monitoring part of this project will be developed in a single study site, with the study of selected target species, using several methods (capture-marking-recapture, mapping of tracks and feces, determination of reproductive hormonal levels in feces). Besides the publication of articles relative to all particular findings that will occur during the development of the project, we intend to publish a final synthetic work with the same name of the project, which will include complete systematic accounts and the population monitoring protocol. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PERCEQUILLO, ALEXANDRE R.; HINGST-ZAHER, ERIKA; BONVICINO, CIBELE R.. Systematic review of genus Cerradomys Weksler, percequillo and Voss, 2006 (Rodentia : Cricetidae : Sigmodontinae : Oryzomyini), with description of two new species from eastern Brazil. American Museum Novitates, n. 3622, p. 1-46, AUG 28 2008. (98/05075-7)

SILVA, M. J. J.; YONENAGA-YASSUDA, Y.. B chromosomes in Brazilian rodents. Cytogenetic and Genome Research, v. 106, n. 2/4, p. 257-263, 2004. (99/11653-6, 98/05075-7)

TADDEI, V. A.; LIM, B. K.. A new species of Chiroderma (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) from Northeastern Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Biology, v. 70, n. 2, p. 381-386, MAY 2010. (98/05075-7)

ANA PAULA CARMIGNOTTO; CAROLINE COTRIM AIRES. Mamíferos não voadores (Mammalia) da Estação Ecológica Serra Geral do Tocantins. Biota Neotropica, v. 11, n. 1, p. 313-328, 2011-03-00. (98/05075-7, 00/06642-4)

MARIO DE VIVO; ANA PAULA CARMIGNOTTO; RENATO GREGORIN; ERIKA HINGST-ZAHER; GILSON EVARISTO IACK-XIMENES; MICHEL MIRETZKI; ALEXANDRE REIS PERCEQUILLO; MARIO MANOEL ROLLO JUNIOR; ROGÉRIO VIEIRA ROSSI; VALDIR ANTONIO TADDEI. Checklist dos mamíferos do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Biota Neotropica, v. 11, p. 111-131, 2011-12-00. (98/05075-7, 00/06642-4)

VIVO, M. DE; CARMIGNOTTO, A. P.. Holocene vegetation change and the mammal faunas of South America and Africa. Journal of Biogeography, v. 31, n. 6, p. 943-957, jun. 2004. (00/06642-4, 98/05075-7)

STEINER-SOUZA‚ F.; CORDEIRO-ESTRELA‚ P.; PERCEQUILLO‚ AR; TESTONI‚ AF; ALTHOFF‚ SL. New records of Rhagomys rufescens (Rodentia‚ Sigmodontinae) in the Atlantic forest of Brazil. Zootaxa, v. 1824, p. 28-34, 2008. (98/05075-7)

VIEIRA-ALENCAR, JOAO PAULO S.; BOLOCHIO, BRUNA E.; CARMIGNOTTO, ANA PAULA; SAWAYA, RICARDO J.; SILVEIRA, LUIS FABIO; VALDUJO, PAULA HANNA; NOGUEIRA, CRISTIANO DE CAMPOS; NORI, JAVIER. How habitat loss and fragmentation are reducing conservation opportunities for vertebrates in the most threatened savanna of the World. PERSPECTIVES IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, v. 21, n. 2, p. 7-pg., 2023-05-23. (98/05075-7, 17/23548-2, 02/00015-3, 11/20022-3, 20/12658-4, 00/06642-4, 16/09734-5, 15/20215-7, 07/51956-6)

RENATO GREGORIN; EDMARA GONÇALVES; CAROLINE COTRIM AIRES; ANA PAULA CARMIGNOTTO. Morcegos (Mammalia: Chiroptera) da Estação Ecológica Serra Geral do Tocantins: composição específica e considerações taxonômicas. Biota Neotropica, v. 11, n. 1, p. 299-311, 2011-03-00. (98/05075-7, 00/06642-4)

CHIQUITO, ELISANDRA DE ALMEIDA; D'ELIA, GUILLERMO; PERCEQUILLO, ALEXANDRE REIS. Taxonomic review of genus Sooretamys Weksler, Percequillo & Voss (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae): an integrative approach. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 171, n. 4, p. 842-877, AUG 2014. (07/05859-9, 98/05075-7, 09/16009-1)

RODRIGUES‚ F.H.G.. New data on the distribution‚ natural history and morphology of Kunsia tomentosus (Lichtenstein‚ 1830)(Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae). Zootaxa, v. 1505, p. 1-18, 2007. (98/05075-7, 00/06642-4)

CASATTI‚ L.. Revision of the South American freshwater genus Plagioscion (Teleostei‚ Perciformes‚ Sciaenidae). Zootaxa, v. 1080, p. 39-64, 2005. (98/05075-7, 01/13340-7)

JOYCE R. PRADO; ALEXANDRE R. PERCEQUILLO. Ontogenetic and sexual variation in cranial characters of Aegialomys Xanthaeolus (Thomas, 1894)(Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) from Ecuador and Peru. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo), v. 51, n. 9, p. 155-177, 2011-00-00. (09/16009-1, 98/05075-7, 09/03547-5)

SILVA, MARIA JOSÉ DE J.; PATTON, JAMES L.; YONENAGA-YASSUDA, YATIYO. Phylogenetic relationships and karyotype evolution in the sigmodontine rodent Akodon (2n = 10 and 2n = 16) from Brazil. GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, v. 29, n. 3, p. 469-474, 2006. (98/05075-7)

CARMIGNOTTO, ANA PAULA; PARDINI, RENATA; DE VIVO, MARIO. Habitat Heterogeneity and Geographic Location as Major Drivers of Cerrado Small Mammal Diversity Across Multiple Spatial Scales. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, v. 09, p. 20-pg., 2022-02-17. (00/06642-4, 98/05075-7)

CHIQUITO, ELISANDRA DE ALMEIDA; D'ELIA, GUILLERMO; PERCEQUILLO, ALEXANDRE REIS. Taxonomic review of genus Sooretamys Weksler, Percequillo & Voss (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae): an integrative approach. ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, v. 171, n. 4, p. 36-pg., 2014-08-01. (09/16009-1, 98/05075-7, 07/05859-9)

PERCEQUILLO, ALEXANDRE R.; HINGST-ZAHER, ERIKA; BONVICINO, CIBELE R.. Systematic review of genus Cerradomys Weksler, percequillo and Voss, 2006 (Rodentia : Cricetidae : Sigmodontinae : Oryzomyini), with description of two new species from eastern Brazil. American Museum Novitates, v. N/A, n. 3622, p. 46-pg., 2008-08-28. (98/05075-7)