Medium-sized and large mammals of the Floresta da Cicuta Area of Relevant Ecological Interest, a protected area in southeastern Brazil

By

Alves, Sandro Leonardo
Miranda, Jeferson De Paula
Furtado, Paulo Sérgio Do Nascimento
Nelis, Fúlvia Cristiny Tereza
Paula, Hugo Leonardo Domingues De
Rocha, Samuel De Almeida
Campos, Suênia Cristine
Ferreira, Pâmella M. Souza Martins Amaral
Tavares, Gabriel Magalhães
Porto, Márcia Valéria Da Fonseca

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021-10-20

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

17

Series / Issue

Issue: 5

Pages

1421--1436

Subjects

Atlantic forest , camera traps , mammal survey , Rio de Janeiro , Seasonal semideciduous forest , species inventory , threatened species

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/17.5.1421

 

Abstract

The Atlantic Forest is one of the most biodiverse biomes in the world and has been severely degraded and fragmented, with the extirpation of most medium-sized and large vertebrates from the forest remnants. Here we present the results of a survey of medium-sized and large mammals in an area of protected seasonal semideciduous forest, the Floresta da Cicuta Area of Relevant Ecological Interest (ARIE-FC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, part the Atlantic Forest biome. We used camera traps (2,257 camera days) and direct observations over a 23-month period. We recorded 19 species (including two domestic species), seven of which are classified as at-risk, such as Leopardus guttulus (Hensel, 1872), Sylvilagus tapetillus Thomas, 1913, Alouatta clamitans Cabrera, 1940, and Chrysocyon brachyurus (Illiger, 1815). A diverse terrestrial mammal assemblage in the ARIE-FC reinforces the importance of small forest fragments for the conservation of biodiversity in human-modified landscapes of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.