Trophic ecology of mammals in anthropic environments through the stable isotopes methodology

• Grant number: 13/11032-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: November 01, 2013
• End date: December 04, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Applied Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Luciano Martins Verdade
• Grantee: Thiago Simon Marques
• Host Institution: Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 15/25502-4 - Trophic ecology of rodents in anthropic environments through stable isotope methodology, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

Occupation and exploitation history of natural resources by man has proven to be one of the main factors responsible for the natural habitats alteration. This process provided the conversion of native vegetation in agroecosystems. The increase of silvicultural areas in the São Paulo state, due to its economic importance, has resulted in the increase of its environmental importance. In this context, the biodiversity conservation in silvicultural landscapes depends on the collection of information about strategies that wild species utilize to adapt to anthropogenic changes. This study will determine diet, trophic interations, resource partitioning and space use of small mammals and their main predators (canids and felids) in silvicultural landscapes applying the methodology based on the determination of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes.

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)

FERRONATO, BRUNO O.; MARQUES, THIAGO S.; LARA, NELITON R. F.; MARTINELLI, LUIZ A.; VERDADE, LUCIANO M.; CAMARGO, PLINIO B.; ROE, JOHN H.; GEORGES, ARTHUR. Isotopic niche in the eastern long-necked turtle, Chelodina longicollis (Testudines: Chelidae), along a natural-urban gradient in southeastern Australia. HERPETOLOGICAL JOURNAL, v. 26, n. 4, p. 297-304, OCT 2016. (13/11032-0)

MARQUES, THIAGO S.; BRITO, ELIZANGELA S.; LARA, NELITON R. F.; BELOTO, LUCIANA M.; VALADAO, RAFAEL M.; DE CAMARGO, PLINIO B.; VERDADE, LUCIANO M.. The trophic niche of Mesoclemmys vanderhaegei (Testudines: Chelidae): evidence from stable isotopes. ZOOLOGIA, v. 34, p. 6-pg., 2017-01-01. (13/11032-0)

MARQUES, THIAGO S.; BRITO, ELIZANGELA S.; LARA, NELITON R. F.; BELOTO, LUCIANA M.; VALADAO, RAFAEL M.; DE CAMARGO, PLINIO B.; VERDADE, LUCIANO M.. The trophic niche of Mesoclemmys vanderhaegei (Testudines: Chelidae): evidence from stable isotopes. Zoologia, v. 34, 2017. (13/11032-0)

BOESING, ANDREA LARISSA; MARQUES, THIAGO SIMON; MARTINELLI, LUIZ ANTONIO; NICHOLS, ELIZABETH; SIQUEIRA, PAULO RICARDO; BEIER, CHRISTIAN; DE CAMARGO, PLINIO BARBOSA; METZGER, JEAN PAUL. Conservation implications of a limited avian cross-habitat spillover in pasture lands. Biological Conservation, v. 253, JAN 2021. (13/23457-6, 13/11032-0, 17/26093-6, 19/13802-4, 13/12777-0)