Landscape effects and the interaction between mammals and hantavirus in the Atlantic Forest

• Grant number: 15/17739-4
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): June 01, 2016
• Effective date (End): November 30, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Applied Ecology
• Principal researcher: Milton Cezar Ribeiro
• Grantee: Renata de Lara Muylaert
• Home Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/21816-0 - Spatiotemporal dynamics of hantavirus disease in a fast-changing country, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

In recent years several tropical diseases have emerged in response to multiple factors, both environmental and socioeconomic. There is evidence that the loss of natural forests and human actions lead to defaunation and species substitution, which can affect trophic interactions and even disease outbreaks. In relation to trophic interactions, wild carnivores tend to feed more on prey from the matrix in degraded areas than in preserved areas. These prey are often small mammals, which can transmit different types of viruses to humans, featuring a serious environmental disservice. Evidence suggests that the main factors that result in zoonosis outbreaks are related to climatic, socioeconomic aspects, landscape structure and presence of reservoir animals and their predators. Investigate these aspects can contribute much to environmental planning and disease prevention. This project seeks to answer the following questions: 1) How communities of rodents and bats - relevant groups for hantavirus - respond to the landscape structure? 2) What is the influence of diversity and landscape structure on viral prevalence in bats and rodents? 3) Does the diet of predators of such reservoirs varies along a native habitat loss gradient? and 4) What are the ecological correlates of hantavirus in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest? We will use six relevant focal species for hantavirus: rodents Oligoryzomis nigripes, Necromis lasiurus, Akodon montensis and Calomys tener and bats Artibeus planirostris and Desmodus rotundus. We will analyze data from the literature collected by us with an approach of hierarchical models and path analysis. Our expectation is that landscape structure will influence the presence of bats, the presence of rodents and viral prevalence. Regarding the viral incidence, our predictions are that areas with 1) predominance of agricultural matrix, 2) more contact areas between favorable matrix for reservoirs and remaining vegetation and 3) greater amount of people at risk are those who do the best predictions of hantavirus incidences. Project results are expected to generate subsidies for environmental and health policies, pointing out areas of risk and its relationship with environmental conservation.

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)

FERRO E SILVA, ANDREIA MANTOVANI; SOBRAL-SOUZA, THADEU; VANCINE, MAURICIO HUMBERTO; MUYLAERT, RENATA LARA; DE ABREU, ANA PAULA; PELLOSO, SANDRA MARISA; DE BARROS CARVALHO, MARIA DALVA; DE ANDRADE, LUCIANO; RIBEIRO, MILTON CEZAR; DE ORNELAS TOLEDO, MAX JEAN. Spatial prediction of risk areas for vector transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi in the State of Parana, southern Brazil. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, v. 12, n. 10, OCT 2018. (15/17739-4, 17/09676-8, 17/21816-0)

FARAH, FABIANO TURINI; MUYLAERT, RENATA DE LARA; RIBEIRO, MILTON CEZAR; RIBEIRO, JOHN WESLEY; DE SA ABILIO MANGUEIRA, JULIA RAQUEL; SOUZA, VINICIUS CASTRO; RODRIGUES, RICARDO RIBEIRO. Integrating plant richness in forest patches can rescue overall biodiversity in human-modified landscapes. FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, v. 397, p. 78-88, AUG 1 2017. (15/17739-4)

COSTA, FERNANDA V.; MELLO, MARCO A. R.; BRONSTEIN, JUDITH L.; GUERRA, TADEU J.; MUYLAERT, RENATA L.; LEITE, ALICE C.; NEVES, FREDERICO S.. Few Ant Species Play a Central Role Linking Different Plant Resources in a Network in Rupestrian Grasslands. PLoS One, v. 11, n. 12, DEC 2 2016. (15/17739-4)

MORAES, ANDREIA MAGRO; RUIZ-MIRANDA, CARLOS R.; GALETTI JR, PEDRO M.; NIEBUHR, BERNARDO BRANDAO; ALEXANDRE, BRENDA R.; MUYLAERT, RENATA L.; GRATIVOL, ADRIANA D.; RIBEIRO, JOHN W.; FERREIRA, ARYSTENE N.; RIBEIRO, MILTON CEZAR. Landscape resistance influences effective dispersal of endangered golden lion tamarins within the Atlantic Forest. Biological Conservation, v. 224, p. 178-187, AUG 2018. (13/50421-2, 15/17739-4)

MARJAKANGAS, EMMA-LIINA; ABREGO, NEREA; GROTAN, VIDAR; DE LIMA, RENATO A. F.; BELLO, CAROLINA; BOVENDORP, RICARDO S.; CULOT, LAURENCE; HASUI, ERICA; LIMA, FERNANDO; MUYLAERT, RENATA LARA; et al. Fragmented tropical forests lose mutualistic plant-animal interactions. DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS, v. 26, n. 2, NOV 2019. (13/25441-0, 17/08440-0, 14/01986-0, 13/50421-2, 13/08722-5, 17/21816-0, 15/17739-4, 14/18800-6, 14/14739-0, 17/09676-8)

NAGY-REIS, MARIANA; OSHIMA, JULIA EMI DE FARIA; KANDA, CLAUDIA ZUKERAN; PALMEIRA, FRANCESCA BELEM LOPES; DE MELO, FABIANO RODRIGUES; MORATO, RONALDO GONCALVES; BONJORNE, LILIAN; MAGIOLI, MARCELO; LEUCHTENBERGER, CAROLINE; ROHE, FABIO; et al. NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics. ECOLOGY, v. 101, n. 11, NOV 2020. (14/01986-0, 12/14245-2, 10/05343-5, 13/50421-2, 06/04878-7, 17/21816-0, 05/00405-4, 13/24453-4, 15/22844-1, 13/07162-6, 15/19439-8, 16/11595-3, 19/04851-1, 15/18381-6, 13/04957-8, 14/23095-0, 14/09300-0, 11/06782-5, 15/17739-4, 11/22449-4, 14/23132-2, 14/10192-7, 12/00534-2, 14/14925-9)

MUYLAERT, RENATA L.; SABINO-SANTOS JR, GILBERTO; PRIST, PAULA R.; OSHIMA, JULIA E. F.; NIEBUHR, BERNARDO BRANDAO; SOBRAL-SOUZA, THADEU; DE OLIVEIRA, STEFAN VILGES; BOVENDORP, RICARDO SIQUEIRA; MARSHALL, JONATHAN C.; HAYMAN, DAVID T. S.; et al. Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome Transmission Risk in Brazil. Viruses-Basel, v. 11, n. 11, NOV 2019. (13/25441-0, 13/50421-2, 17/21816-0, 16/02568-2, 15/17739-4, 17/11666-0)

KERCHES-ROGERI, PATRICIA; NIEBUHR, BERNARDO BRANDAO; MUYLAERT, RENATA LARA; MELLO, MARCO AURELIO RIBEIRO. Individual specialization in the use of space by frugivorous bats. Journal of Animal Ecology, v. 89, n. 11, p. 2584-2595, NOV 2020. (18/20695-7, 07/03415-6, 15/17739-4, 14/24219-4, 07/03405-0)

MUYLAERT, RENATA L.; BOVENDORP, RICARDO SIQUEIRA; SABINO-SANTOS, JR., GILBERTO; PRIST, PAULA R.; MELO, GERUZA LEAL; PRIANTE, CAMILA DE FATIMA; WILKINSON, DAVID A.; RIBEIRO, MILTON CEZAR; HAYMAN, DAVID T. S.. Hantavirus host assemblages and human disease in the Atlantic Forest. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, v. 13, n. 8, AUG 2019. (13/25441-0, 13/50421-2, 17/21816-0, 15/17739-4, 17/11666-0)

MELLO, MARCO A. R.; FELIX, GABRIEL M.; PINHEIRO, RAFAEL B. P.; MUYLAERT, RENATA L.; GEISELMAN, CULLEN; SANTANA, SHARLENE E.; TSCHAPKA, MARCO; LOTFI, NASTARAN; RODRIGUES, FRANCISCO A.; STEVENS, RICHARD D.. Insights into the assembly rules of a continent-wide multilayer network. NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, v. 3, n. 11, p. 1525-1532, NOV 2019. (15/17739-4, 17/50144-0, 18/20695-7, 16/25682-5)

CRUZ, LIVIA R.; MUYLAERT, RENATA L.; GALETTI, MAURO; PIRES, MATHIAS M.. The geography of diet variation in Neotropical Carnivora. MAMMAL REVIEW, v. 52, n. 1, SEP 2021. (19/16025-9, 15/17739-4, 14/01986-0)

REGOLIN, ANDRE LUIS; MUYLAERT, RENATA L.; CRESTANI, ANA CRISTINA; DATTILO, WESLEY; RIBEIRO, MILTON CEZAR. Seed dispersal by Neotropical bats in human-disturbed landscapes. WILDLIFE RESEARCH, v. 48, n. 1, AUG 2020. (13/50421-2, 15/17739-4)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MUYLAERT, Renata de Lara. Eco-epidemiology and spatiotemporal dynamics of hantavirus disease with contributions to open data generation and use. 2019. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Biociências. Rio Claro Rio Claro.