Widllife in agricultural landscapes: patterns and processes

• Grant number: 17/01304-4
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Thematic Grants
• Duration: February 01, 2018 - January 31, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Applied Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Luciano Martins Verdade
• Grantee: Luciano Martins Verdade
• Host Institution: Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Pesquisadores principais:( Atuais ): Vânia Regina Pivello
• Pesquisadores principais:( Anteriores ): Plínio Barbosa de Camargo
• Associated researchers: Ana Carla Medeiros Morato de Aquino ; Carla Gheler Costa ; Cristiana Simão Seixas ; Fernando Cesar Cascelli de Azevedo ; Luiz Antonio Martinelli ; Marcelo Zacharias Moreira ; Patrícia Ferreira Monticelli ; Plínio Barbosa de Camargo ; Thiago Simon Marques
• Associated scholarship(s): 21/08980-0 - Evidence of rapid evolution in small rodents in silvicultural landscape, BP.IC; 20/10238-8 - Biomass and biodiversity modulating ecosystem functioning, BP.PD; 19/20807-2 - Trophic and isotopic ecology of snakes and their prey, BP.PD; 19/03375-1 - Ecosystem dynamism: exploring the role of primary functional diversity in ecosystem functioning, BP.PD

Abstract

According to Caughley (1994), the need for human intervention in the wildlife at the population level has only four alternatives: increase a population that has been depleted, decrease a population that has expanded unduly, achieving the maximum sustainable yield of a population with economic value, or just keep an "eye" in populations that do not fit these categories. It is no coincidence that the alternatives proposed by Caughley include major fields linked to the current management of biodiversity, namely, biological conservation, control, sustainable use and monitoring. This study aims to determine the relationship between the patterns of biological diversity (ie, biodiversity) and the complexity of ecological and evolutionary processes (ie, biocomplexity) in agricultural landscapes; as well as improve the use of molecular markers and Bioacoustical in faunal survey studies, use of space and diet; and improve the long-term monitoring of wildlife in agricultural landscapes both at local and regional level. This study prioritizes agricultural landscapes, as changes in land use linked to expansion or intensification of agriculture are the main cause of biodiversity loss. However, agricultural landscapes still contains significant part of biota, including endangered, damaging and valuable species. (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)

ISLAS, CAMILA ALVEZ; SEIXAS, CRISTIANA SIMAO; VERDADE, LUCIANO MARTINS. Wildlife-Human Survey: a rapid appraisal tool to assess mammal diversity and human wildlife interactions in rural settings. WILDLIFE RESEARCH, v. N/A, p. 15-pg., 2022-03-22. (17/01304-4, 15/19439-8)

GHELER-COSTA, CARLA; SABINO-SANTOS JR, GILBERTO; ROSALINO, LUIS MIGUEL; AMORIM, LUANA SANTOS; MAIA, FELIPE GONCALVES M.; MORAL, RAFAEL DE ANDRADE; FERREIRA, IURI E. P.; FIGUEIREDO, LUIZ-THADEU M.; PINA, CARLOS, I; VERDADE, LUCIANO M.. The influence of sugarcane pre-harvest fire on hantavirus prevalence in Neotropical small mammals. ECOSPHERE, v. 13, n. 9, p. 12-pg., 2022-09-01. (06/60954-4, 17/01304-4, 08/50617-6, 16/02568-2, 08/06411-4)

ZUCOLOTO, RODRIGO BARBAN; BOMFIM, GILBERTO CAFEZEIRO; FERNANDES, FLORA MARIA DE CAMPOS; SCHNADELBACH, ALESSANDRA SELBACH; PINA, CARLOS IGNACIO; VERDADE, LUCIANO M.. Effective population size of broad-snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris) in Brazil: A historical and spatial perspective. GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, v. 28, AUG 2021. (17/01304-4)

DE ALMEIDA, ANA BEATRIZ; MAGIOLI, MARCELO; GHELER-COSTA, CARLA; VERDADE, LUCIANO MARTINS; MARQUES, THIAGO SIMON; DE LIMA, LETICIA DE CASSIA GILLI; PUTTKER, THOMAS. Trophic niche overlap among Neotropical carnivores in a silvicultural landscape. MAMMALIA, v. 87, n. 4, p. 11-pg., 2023-03-23. (17/01304-4)

VERDADE, LUCIANO M.; BIANCHI, RITA C.; GALETTI, PEDRO M.; PIVELLO, VANIA R.; SILVA, WESLEY R.; UEZU, ALEXANDRE. Biodiversity Management and Research in Multifunctional Landscapes. Biota Neotropica, v. 22, p. 7-pg., 2022-01-01. (13/18526-9, 17/01304-4, 19/19429-3, 16/19106-1, 13/19377-7, 18/07886-8, 10/52315-7, 09/16906-3, 99/05123-4, 17/23548-2)

MARQUES, THIAGO S.; BASSETTI, LUIS A. B.; LARA, NELITON R. F.; PORTELINHA, THIAGO C. G.; PINA, I, CARLOS; VERDADE, LUCIANO M.. Home Range and Movement Pattern of the Broad-Snouted Caiman (Caiman latirostris) in a Silviculture Dominated Landscape. South American Journal of Herpetology, v. 16, n. 1, p. 16-25, AUG 2020. (06/60954-4, 17/01304-4)

VERDADE, LUCIANO M.; MORAL, RAFAEL A.; CALABONI, ADRIANE; DO AMARAL, MARCUS V. S. G.; MARTIN, PAULA S.; AMORIM, LUANA S.; GHELER-COSTA, CARLA; PINA, I, CARLOS. Temporal dynamics of small mammals in Eucalyptus plantations in Southeast Brazil. GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, v. 24, DEC 2020. (17/01304-4, 06/60954-4)