Aline da Silva GirouxUniversidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul · Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação (PPGEC)
Aline da Silva Giroux
PhD in Ecology and Conservation
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I am an ecologist, interested in quantify the impacts of environmental changes on animal movement to develop predictive models that will better guide management and policies for sustainability.
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Mammals can show conspicuous behavioral responses to thermal variation, including changes in movement patterns. We used an integrative approach to understand how environmental temperature can drive the movement behavior of a mammal with low capacity for physiological thermoregulation, the giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla). We tracked 52 gian...
Knowing the influence of intrinsic and environmental traits on animals' movement is a central interest of ecology and can aid to enhance management decisions. The giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) is a vulnerable mammal that presents low capacity for physiological thermoregulation and uses forests as thermal shelters. Here, we aim to provide...
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Understanding how to connect habitat remnants to facilitate the movement of species is a critical task in an increasingly fragmented world impacted by human activities. The identification of dispersal routes and corridors through connectivity analysis requires measures of landscape resistance but there has been no consensus on how to cal...
Background
Understanding how to connect habitat remnants to facilitate the movement of species is a critical task in an increasingly fragmented world impacted by human activities. The identification of dispersal routes and corridors through connectivity analysis requires measures of landscape resistance but there has been no consensus on how to cal...
Mammals use thermoregulatory behavioural strategies to reduce the cost of physiological thermoregulation. Environmental temperatures should, therefore, impact their decisions. We investigated the effect of environmental temperature on the movement decisions of a large mammal with low capacity for physiological thermoregulation: the giant anteater,...
Home range (HR) estimates are used to inform wildlife managers about protected area sizes and conservation policies. Ultimately, the HR of a sedentary animal is formed by the sum of multiple (mostly repetitive) daily movement modes. By fitting net squared displacement (NSD) models to daily animal locations, we can translate broad HR movement strate...
The Amazon forest has the highest biodiversity on Earth. However, information on Amazonian vertebrate diversity is still deficient and scattered across the published, peer-reviewed, and gray literature and in unpublished raw data. Camera traps are an effective non-invasive method of surveying vertebrates, applicable to different scales of time and...
In addition to protected areas, sustainable working landscapes are key to successful biodiversity conservation. Yet such landscapes are threatened by rapid crop expansion, in particular in Brazil. In this context, this study explores the influence of farming systems on farm-scale vegetation patterns around the Serra da Bodoquena National Park in Ma...
The Amazon forest has the highest biodiversity on earth. However, information on Amazonian vertebrate diversity is still deficient and scattered across the published, peer‐reviewed and grey literature and in unpublished raw data. Camera traps are an effective non‐invasive method of surveying vertebrates, applicable to different scales of time and s...
A brief communication in Brazilian virtual conference of the main result of hoary fox habitat selection research. We studied the space use of this vulnerable carnivore in an agroecosystem used for livestock production. We aligned foxes’ movement ecology with livestock management by searching for those habitats selected by foxes that also improve ca...
Most lizards maintain quite constant body temperatures by behavioural means. Seasonal variations of environmental factors, such as temperature, sunlight exposure and wind intensity, influence lizard thermoregulatory abilities. Understanding how seasonal environmental shifts influence lizards' thermoregulation helps us to know how they deal behaviou...
Após aproximadamente 30 anos sem registros de ariranhas na Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Amanã (RDSA), a reocupação de áreas históricas e expansão territorial indicam o crescimento da população local. Porém, informações sobre distribuição e requisitos ambientais dessa espécie ainda são escassas. Esse estudo objetiva estimar a distribuição...
A ariranha, Pteronura brasiliensis (Zimmermann, 1780), é um mamífero semi-aquático que utiliza locas e latrinas como abrigo e marcação territorial, respectivamente. Este estudo objetiva identificar as espécies de vertebrados associadas a locas e latrinas de ariranhas e sua abundância relativa, assim como compreender quais espécies utilizam esses sí...
A ariranha (Pteronura brasiliensis), um mustelídeo semiaquático, forma grupos sociais de até 16 indivíduos, utiliza corpos d’água principalmente para se alimentar e locomover e barrancos marginais para construir ninhos, descansar, defecar, e deixar marcações físicas e odoríferas, delimitando a extensão de seu território. Após sofrer significativa r...
