Alexandre Marcel Silva Machado

Alexandre Marcel Silva Machado
  • Doctor of Philosophy
  • Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Postdoctoral fellow at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

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Introduction
I am a PhD student in Ecology at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil. I am most interested in behavioral ecology and the role of individual variation in behavior and it’s implications to the population level. I am also interested in how human populations interact with marine wildlife, and how both humans and animals can benefit from conservation. I had the opportunity to address such interesting topics using as a model the population of bottlenose dolphins that forages in cooperation with fishermen in Laguna, southern Brazil.
Current institution
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Additional affiliations
March 2016 - March 2018
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Position
  • Master's Student
August 2010 - August 2015
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Position
  • Bachelor's student

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Publications (13)
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Social foraging is a collective solution to the challenge of catching prey. A remarkable example involving different predator species with complementary hunting skills is Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus gephyreus) foraging with net-casting human fishers to catch migratory mullet (Mugil liza). It remains unknown, however, to what e...
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In contrast to many contemporary negative human‐nature relationships, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities have stewarded nature through cultural practices that include reciprocal contributions for both humans and nature. A rare example is the century‐old artisanal fishery in which net‐casting fishers and wild dolphins benefit by working togeth...
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Human‐wildlife cooperation is a type of mutualism in which a human and a wild, free‐living animal actively coordinate their behaviour to achieve a common beneficial outcome. While other cooperative human‐animal interactions involving captive coercion or artificial selection (including domestication) have received extensive attention, we lack integr...
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Human–wildlife cooperation occurs when humans and free-living wild animals actively coordinate their behavior to achieve a mutually beneficial outcome. These interactions provide important benefits to both the human and wildlife communities involved, have wider impacts on the local ecosystem, and represent a unique intersection of human and animal...
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Understanding the dynamics of small-scale fisheries requires considering the diversity of behaviours and skills of fishers. Fishers may have different abilities and tactics that can translate into different fishing outcomes. Here, we investigate variation in fishing behaviours among traditional net-casting fishers that are assisted by wild dolphins...
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1. Human-wildlife cooperation is a type of mutualism in which a human and a wild, free-living animal actively coordinate their behaviour to achieve a common beneficial outcome. 2. While other cooperative human-animal interactions involving captive coer-cion or artificial selection (including domestication) have received extensive
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Identifying individual animals is critical to describe demographic and behavioural patterns, and to investigate the ecological and evolutionary underpinnings of these patterns. The traditional non-invasive method of individual identification in mammals—comparison of photographed natural marks—has been improved by coupling other sampling methods, su...
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Acoustic monitoring in cetacean studies is an effective but expensive approach. This is partly because of the high sampling rate required by acoustic devices when recording high-frequency echolocation clicks. However, the proportion of echolocation clicks recorded at different frequencies is unknown for many species, including bottlenose dolphins....
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Assessing fish stocks harvested by small-scale fisheries is challenging. The lack of official fisheries data constrains the proper management of such fisheries. Thus, alternative sources of information are crucial to enrich data-poor fisheries. Here, we evaluated different sources of data for the mullet (Mugil liza) fishery, one of the most importa...
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Individuals often associate socially with those who behave the sameway. This principle, homophily, could structure populations into distinct social groups. We tested this hypothesis in a bottlenose dolphin population that appeared to be clustered around a specialized foraging tactic involving cooperation with net-casting fishermen, but in which oth...
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Incorporating the perception and attitudes of key stakeholders into conservation management can contribute to biodiversity conservation and has the potential to resolve human-wildlife conflicts. To this end, there is scope to enhance conservation outcomes by improving the capture and analysis of stakeholders perceptions and trans- lating these into...
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Este livro é uma publicação do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, do Centro de Ciências Biológicas, da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (PPGECO-UFSC). O curso de Ecologia de Campo foi realizado de 8 a 14 de novembro de 2016 na Fa- zenda Reunidas Campos Novos, em Bom Retiro, SC, e de 15 a 21 no Parque Municipal da Lagoa do Peri, em Flor...

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