André Valle Nunes

• PhD
• Researcher at IPÊ - Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas

In Brazil, biodiversity offsetting operates in an ad hoc manner while biodiversity equivalence has mainly been overlooked by public policies. Despite being mandatory since 1965s Forest Code (Law 4.771), we fail to have a robust offsetting framework. The revision of the forest code in 2012 (i.e., Native Vegetation Protection Law—NVPL—Law n° 12,651/2...

The Pantanal wetland ecosystem of Brazil is experiencing unprecedented local challenges from anthropogenic pressures, as well as from global climate change. These pressures escalate the zoonotic risks from wildlife populations, whose own susceptibility to disease is enhanced by stressors including habitat loss and fragmentation with the resulting d...

The Pantanal is considered the largest continuous freshwater wetland in the world, and its sustainable use requires a unified conceptual framework. The lengthy process to establish public policies has contributed to the increasing vulnerability of the Pantanal. Given the need for a conceptual basis to help this process, we elaborate a list of eight...

O Pantanal é considerado a maior planície alagada contínua de água doce do mundo, e seu uso sustentável requer uma estrutura conceitual unificada. O longo processo para a formulação de políticas públicas tem contribuído para a crescente vulnerabilidade do Pantanal. Dada a necessidade de uma base conceitual para auxiliar esse processo, elaboramos u...

A new policy in the Pantanal wetland, Brazil, aims to economically displace thousandsof artisanal fishers from one-third of the region. The legislation disregards severalFAO Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainability in Small- Scale Fisheries' guidingprinciples (SSF guidelines). Considering that 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of theseguideli...

Uma nova política no Pantanal, Brasil, visa à exclusão econômica de milhares de pescadores artesanais em um terço da região, uma atividade que existe há 5.000 anos. A legislação desconsidera vários princípios orientadores das Diretrizes Voluntárias da FAO para Garantir a Sustentabilidade na Pesca de Pequena Escala (diretrizes SSF).Considerando que...

A edição deste livro é parte das atividades previstas na disciplina “Ecologia de Campo III” do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação (PPGEC) da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul.

Unpredictable environmental dynamics may be the greatest challenge of our time 1,2 . However, sustainability initiatives are designed with the assumption that people’s access to natural resources is relatively predictable ³ . This assumption is based on the principle that to use resources sustainably users must have the ability to exclude free ride...

Protected areas (PA) are being stifled by human land uses, jeopardizing their integrity and ecosystem services. Therefore, we searched for human land use within 19 PAs of the Pantanal ecoregion. We assessed changes in land cover from protected areas’ creation year up to 2021. In addition, we established a 10 km buffer from each PA limit to compare...

The Pantanal, the Earth's largest continuous wetland, experienced severe impacts from wildfires in 2019 and, particularly, in 2020. The surge in wildfires can be attributed to several factors, including climate extremes, inadequate fire management, ineffective policymaking, as well as commercial and demographic dynamics. Understanding the economic...

Este trabalho tem como objetivo trazer de forma simples e descomplicada, na forma de perguntas e respostas, os principais questionamentos sobre fogo no Pantanal: incêndios florestais e seus impactos, uso do fogo, medidas preventivas, combate, legislação aplicada, entre outros. As informações contidas neste material são provenientes de dados e fato...

Objectives: In 2020, Brazil experienced two concurrent public health challenges related to respiratory disease: wildfires and increased mortality due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Smoke from these wildfires contributed to a variety of air pollutants, including fine particulate matter (PM 2.5). The present study aims to investigate the eff...

The need to reconcile food production, the safeguarding of nature, and the protection of public health is imperative in a world of continuing global change, particularly in the context of risks of emerging zoonotic disease (EZD). In this paper, we explored potential land use strategies to reduce EZD risks using a landscape approach. We focused on s...

O ressurgente projeto de navegação conhecido como Hidrovia Paraguai-Paraná ameaça a integridade do Pantanal, a maior área úmida do mundo, que é considerada um bioma próprio. A navegação intensiva por barcaças tem como objetivo transportar produtos agrícolas (soja, açúcar, milho) e cimento, ferro e manganês das áreas de produção no Brasil, Paraguai...

Polycystic Echinococcosis (PE), a neglected life- threatening zoonotic disease caused by the cestode Echinococcus vogeli, is endemic in the Amazon. Despite being treatable, PE reaches a case fatality rate of around 29% due to late or missed diagnosis. PE is sustained in Pan- Amazonia by a complex sylvatic cycle. The hunting of its infected intermed...

The actions required for the conservation of biodiversity depend on the responses of species to habitat loss, which can be neutral, linear or non-linear. Here, we test how the taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of aquatic insects, dragonflies, frogs, and terrestrial mammals, as well as their species composition, respond to forest cov...

Fishing connects people, aquatic systems, places, and fish consumer markets all around the world. Our understanding of the magnitude and intensity of these interactions are comparatively scarce for some regions, and to date have mostly yielded insights to understand socioecological linkages within marine fisheries. Here, we investigated how socio-d...

O artigo traz um alertar sobre os perigos ocultos por trás da recente política de desmatamento da Europa que tem como objetivo limitar a importação de produtos ligados ao desmatamento: este é o acordo que a União Europeia (UE) pretende estabelecer como lei em um futuro próximo. A nova regulamentação irá afetar diversos países, incluindo o Brasil, q...

This article should be cited as: Wantzen, K.M.; Girard, P.; Roque, F.O.; Nunes da Cunha, C.; Chiaravalloti, R.M.; Nunes, A.V.; Bortolotto, I.M.; Guerra, A.; Pauliquevis, C.; Friedlander, M.; Penha, J. (2023): The Pantanal: How long will there be Life in the Rhythm of the Waters? In: Wantzen, K.M. (ed.): River Culture-Life as a Dance to the Rhythm o...

This book gives positive examples how humans and rivers have been, and are still in some places, living in harmony. It analyses how this knowledge can be transferred into modern river management schemes and thereby it attempts to mitigate the deplorable trend of the decline of biological and cultural heritages and diversities in and along rivers. A...

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...

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...

Whether sustainable or not, wild meat consumption is a reality for millions of tropical forest dwellers. Yet estimates of spared greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from consuming wild meat, rather than protein from the livestock sector, have not been quantified. We show that a mean per capita wild meat consumption of 41.7 kg yr −1 for a population of ~...

Fisheries are the most common ecosystem service that fish provide to human populations, yet recreational fisheries are often overlooked when evaluating such services. Here, the socioeconomic profiles of fishers, the composition of their catches and catch per unit effort (CPUE) are described, to estimate the economic value of the recreational fisher...

The influence of sociocultural traits on hunting profiles has received little attention, though it is critical to an understanding of how human societies use wildlife for consumption. Here, we assess whether ethnolinguistic groups, ecoregion, country, and watershed affect hunting profiles among Pano and Arawak indigenous groups, and non-indigenous...

Biological invasion is one of the main threats to native biodiversity. For a species to become invasive, it must be voluntarily or involuntarily introduced by humans into a nonnative habitat. Mammals were among first taxa to be introduced worldwide for game, meat, and labor, yet the number of species introduced in the Neotropics remains unknown. In...

Mammalian carnivores are considered a key group in maintaining ecological health and can indicate potential ecological integrity in landscapes where they occur. Carnivores also hold high conservation value and their habitat requirements can guide management and conservation plans. The order Carnivora has 84 species from 8 families in the Neotropica...

Although critical in understanding human societies relying on natural game stocks, little attention has been paid to how socioeconomic traits can influence hunter behaviour. Our research focuses on whether village size, household size and age, and hunter age and monetary income affect hunting efficiency (catch-per-unit-effort) and catchment areas o...

The Wild Boar is one of the world’s most dangerous invasive species. It is now established in many regions beyond its native range, including many Brazilian states. However, the species has never been recorded from the Brazilian state of Maranhão. Here, we report the first occurrence of this species from Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, within th...

The Wild Boar is one of the world’s most dangerous invasive species. It is now established in many regions beyond its native range, including many Brazilian states. However, the species has never been recorded from the Brazilian state of Maranhão. Here, we report the first occurrence of this species from Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, within th...

Xenarthrans—anteaters, sloths, and armadillos—have essential functions for ecosystem maintenance, such as insect control and nutrient cycling, playing key roles as ecosystem engineers. Because of habitat loss and fragmentation, hunting pressure, and conflicts with domestic dogs, these species have been threatened locally, regionally, or even across...

Wild vertebrates play a decisive role in the subsistence economy of human populations worldwide. The food security value of wild-meat extracted from natural ecosystems remains poorly quantified. Here, we provide an economic valuation of the nutritional and monetary benefits of year-round wild-meat hunting across a large trinational region of southw...

Xenarthrans—anteaters, sloths, and armadillos—have essential functions for ecosystem maintenance, such as insect control and nutrient cycling, playing key roles as ecosystem engineers. Because of habitat loss and fragmentation, hunting pressure, and conflicts with domestic dogs, these species have been threatened locally, regionally, or even across...

Food sharing is found in many traditional societies around the world. The uniqueness of pervasive sharing among humans, especially among non-related individuals, has been explained by a variety of social and ecological models. Here, we investigated whether the sharing of wild meat among hunters in an extractive reserve in a tropical forest is influ...

Amazonian hunters cite primates as their preferred hunting targets. In this study, we investigated the perception of an animal's sex by hunters when targeting primates, the primate diversity, and hunting preferences by riverine communities of the Reserva Extrativista Riozinho da Liberdade. During 151 days, we recorded 188 hunted individuals corresp...

One group of Ateles chamek (Humboldt 1812) was observed during 12 days in the Vila Bela da Santís-sima Trindade municipality, in the state of Mato Grosso. During that time fecal samples (n = 10) were collected and molecular sequencing was used to confirm species identification. The results suggest that the particular pattern of facial hair color ob...

Our understanding of mammal ecology has always been hindered by the difficulties of observing species in closed tropical forests. Camera trapping has become a major advance for monitoring terrestrial mammals in biodiversity rich ecosystems. Here we compiled one of the largest datasets of inventories of terrestrial mammal communities for the Neotrop...

New locations and extension of the known geographical distributions are reported for two recently-described species of saki monkeys: Pithecia rylandsi and Pithecia mittermeieri. The record of P. rylandsi confirms the presence of this species further south in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. The new record of P. mittermeieri, which occurred in an e...

We report the rediscovery of Pithecia vanzolinii in the upper Juruá River Basin, in the State of Acre, Brazil. An individual was collected after being hunted by a local inhabitant of an extractive community in the Riozinho da Liberdade Extractive Reserve. This is the first record of this species in the last 60 years and highlights the importance of...

We report a range extension of the Grey Woolly Monkey, Lagothrix cana, from southwestern Amazonia, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Lagothrix cana was seen in a forest fragment near the " arc of deforestation ". This new record shows the need for conservation of forests in the region to protect this endangered species.

One group of Ateles chamek (Humboldt 1812) was observed during 12 days in the Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade municipality, in the state of Mato Grosso. During that time fecal samples (n= 10) were collected and molecular sequencing was used to confirm species identification. The results suggest that the particular pattern of facial hair color obse...

The aim of this study was to survey the species of large and medium-sized terrestrial mammals occurring at Serra do Brigadeiro State Park (SBSP). Data was compiled from two studies carried out in 2008. Data was collected through sand plots and camera traps. Thirteen species were recorded, one that had not been registered before (Leopardus wiedii) a...

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7925.2012v25n3p205 Três áreas no norte do Parque Estadual da Serra do Brigadeiro (PESB) foram amostradas em relação à fauna de mamíferos terrestres de médio e grande porte, através de armadilhas fotográficas, ao longo de 12 meses. Foram registradas nove espécies silvestres e uma doméstica, a partir de 46 registros. A...

Historically, the creation of protected areas has occupied a forefront role among conservation strategies to protect wildlife. However, the effectiveness of such areas in maintaining viable populations has been a matter of debate. The present study aims to evaluate the efficiency of the protected areas network in the state of Minas Gerais, southeas...

Herein, we report necrophilia (Davian behaviour) in the lizard Ameiva ameiva in Brazilian Atlantic Forest Domain. A male A. ameiva was found during a sunny day courting and trying to copulate with a road-killed female. The presence of developed ovarian follicles confirmed that the female was in breeding condition. The female probably died while mak...

Although the diet of the laughing falcon (Herpetotheres cachinnans) is well known, consisting mainly on snakes, detailed reports of this raptor preying on positively-identified snakes are scarce. This communication documents an oportune observation where an individual of H. cachinnans attacks a boipeva snake (Xenodon merremii) in a pasture area in...