lusive deer occurrences at the Atlantic Forest: 20 years of survey

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de Oliveira, Marcio Leite ^[1] ; Grotta-Netto, Francisco ^[1] ; de Faria Peres, Pedro Henrique ^[1] ; Vogliotti, Alexandre ^[2] ; Brocardo, Carlos Rodrigo ^{[3, 4]} ; Cherem, Jorge Jose ^[5] ; Landis, Mariana ^{[6, 7]} ; Paolino, Roberta Montanheiro ^[6] ; Fusco-Costa, Roberto ^{[8, 9]} ; Gatti, Andressa ^[10] ; Moreira, Danielle Oliveira ^{[11, 10]} ; Ferreira, Paula Modenesi ^[10] ; Mendes, Sergio Lucena ^{[12, 11]} ; Huguenin, Jade ^[10] ; Zanin, Marina ^[13] ; Nodari, Joana Zorzal ^{[12, 10]} ; Reis Leite, Yuri Luiz ^[12] ; Lyrio, Georgea Silva ^[10] ; Micchi de Barros Ferraz, Katia Maria Paschoaletto ^[6] ; Passos, Fernando C. ^[14] ; Barbanti Duarte, Jose Mauricio ^[1]

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^[1] Sao Paulo State Univ, Deer Res & Conservat Ctr, Jaboticabal, SP - Brazil

^[2] Fed Univ Latin Amer Integrat, Foz Do Iguacu, PR - Brazil

^[3] Neotrop Inst Res & Conservat, Curitiba, Parana - Brazil

^[4] Univ Fed Oeste Para Santarem, Programa Posgrad Biodiversidade, Santarem, PA - Brazil

^[5] Caipora Cooperat, Florianopolis, SC - Brazil

^[6] Univ Sao Paulo, Luiz de Queiroz Coll Agr, Forest Sci Dept, Wildlife Ecol Management & Conservat Lab LEMaC, Piracicaba, SP - Brazil

^[7] Manaca Inst, Sao Miguel Arcanjo, SP - Brazil

^[8] Univ Fed Parana, Programa Posgrad Ecol & Conservacao, Curitiba, Parana - Brazil

^[9] Inst Pesquisas Cananeia, Cananeia, SP - Brazil

^[10] Protapir Inst Biodivers, Vila Velha, ES - Brazil

^[11] Inst Nacl Mata Atlantica, Santa Teresa, ES - Brazil

^[12] Univ Fed Espirito Santo, Vitoria, ES - Brazil

^[13] Univ Fed Maranhao, Sao Luis, Maranhao - Brazil

^[14] Univ Fed Parana UFPR, Dept Zool, Lab Biodiversidade Conservacao & Ecol Anim Silves, Programa Posgrad & Ecol & Conservacao, Curitiba, Parana - Brazil

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: MAMMAL RESEARCH; v. 67, n. 1 OCT 2021.
• Web of Science Citations: 0

Abstract

The Atlantic Forest, a hotspot for biodiversity conservation, harbours five forest deer species (Mazama spp.). Due to their elusiveness, there is a severe scarcity of occurrence data to support ecological studies and conservation planning. Thus, we assembled an occurrence dataset of Atlantic Forest deer with reliable taxonomic information aggregating data from scat and camera traps surveys, and opportunistic data collection over the last 20 years. From 2002 to 2019, we surveyed 77 protected areas using scats detection dogs and genetically identifying the faecal samples. We successfully identified 1,147 out of 1,450 collected samples. From 2000 to 2020, we sampled six protected areas in 92 sampling points with 13,328 camera trap days of sampling effort. In addition, we established an active search for potential contributors within the scientific community and environmental consultants since 2010, offering a taxonomic identification service for camera traps images, and biological field-collected samples. With our efforts, we assembled a dataset with 1,456 records of forest deer occurrence at the Atlantic Forest. Of these records, 494 are from M. americana, 350 from M. bororo, 309 from M. gouazoubira, 268 from M. nana and 35 from M. nemorivaga. The faecal sampling was the most predominant method in these records (n = 1043) followed by photographs from camera traps (n = 388); both methods represent 98.2% of our dataset records. Most of the records (79.5%) in the dataset are inside protected areas (n = 1,130). Our dataset is the most comprehensive source of information on Neotropical forest deer occurrence to date. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/09300-0 - Trophic ecology, functional diversity and occurrence of terrestrial mammals in the Atlantic Forest
• Grantee: Katia Maria Paschoaletto Micchi de Barros Ferraz
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• FAPESP's process: 17/00331-8 - Parameters for population estimates of deer of the genus Mazama
• Grantee: Amanda Rosa da Silva
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• FAPESP's process: 17/02200-8 - Distribution and gene flow between genetic variants of the red brocket deer (Mazama americana Erxleben, 1777) in Brazil
• Grantee: Pedro Henrique de Faria Peres
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• FAPESP's process: 15/25742-5 - Distribution and density of Mazama genus deer species at the Atlantic Forest
• Grantee: Márcio Leite de Oliveira
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral