Cecilia Cronemberger

Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade | ICMBio · Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos

The Brazilian Biodiversity Monitoring Program (Monitora Program) is a long-term largescale program aimed at monitoring the state of biodiversity and associated ecosystem services in the protected areas (PAs) managed by Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio). Encouraging qualified social participation is one of Monitora Pro...

O uso de dados de presença e ausência em estudos de monitoramento de fauna vem aumentando rapidamente nas últimas décadas. Este estudo usa dados de presença e ausência obtidos por armadilhas fotográficas ao longo de oito anos na localidade do Garrafão, no estado do Rio de Janeiro, para analisar o efeito do esforço amostral e de sucessivas trocas de...

Background: Toxoplasma gondii is a apicomplexan parasite of virtually all warm-blooded species. All true cats (Felidae) can act as definitive hosts for this parasite by shedding resistant oocysts into the environment. However, the patterns of oocysts shedding are only partially understood in domestic cats and largely unknown in wild felids. Objec...

A sustentabilidade da atividade turística em unidades de conservação (UCs) depende de uma gestão que busque um balanço positivo entre os impactos negativos e a proteção da biodiversidade. A aproximação de visitantes a animais silvestres e oferta de alimentos é um dos impactos potenciais da visitação pública em UCs a ser monitorado e minimizado. Nes...

O monitoramento das unidades de conservação (UCs) é fundamental para avaliar seatingem seus objetivos. Felinos são bons indicadores ambientais e suas fezes podem fornecer informaçõesrelevantes para o monitoramento de UCs. Utilizamos fezes encontradas em trilhas do Parque Nacionalda Serra dos Órgãos para registrar a presença de felinos e outros mamí...

The Program for Biodiversity Research (PPBio) is an innovative program designed to integrate all biodiversity research stakeholders. Operating since 2004, it has installed long-term ecological research sites throughout Brazil and its logic has been applied in some other southern-hemisphere countries. The program supports all aspects of research nec...

Long-term and interdisciplinary studies are needed to understand biodiversity and unravel ecological processes, test ecological hypotheses, propose public policies, and help decision-makers, especially with regard to human impacts and their consequences on the environment. These studies began with the Long-Term Ecological Research Program (LTER), g...

The Program for Biodiversity Research (PPBio) is an innovative program designed to integrate all biodiversity research stakeholders. Operating since 2004, it has installed long-term ecological research sites throughout Brazil and its logic has been applied in some other southern-hemisphere countries. The program supports all aspects of research nec...

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...

A parceria entre CNPq e ICMBio envolvendo sítios PELD em unidades de conservação (UCs) representa uma oportunidade de avançar na integração entre a pesquisa acadêmica e a prática da conservação. As duas instituições trabalharam para melhorar o diálogo entre pesquisadores e gestores no âmbito do PELD em UCs, em oficina que resultou em inovações na C...

The Atlantic Forest is an important hotspot of biodiversity and ecosystem services that contributes to the well-being of its 125 million human inhabitants, about three quarters of the Brazilian population. In the coming decades, forecasts show that urban areas in the Atlantic Forest will grow at the expense of natural ecosystems, leading to increas...

The most recent list of mammals of the Serra dos Órgãos National Park (PARNASO) with 79 records is from its second Management Plan published in 2008. The present study aimed to update the list of mammal species of PARNASO, adding new species records obtained from primary data and bibliographic review, in the period between 2002 and 2018. The review...

Although polymorphic phenotypes are common in wild felids, leucism is a rather rare characteristic and consists in the general cleaning of the animal's coat, assigning a white coloration pattern. This characteristic is genetically controlled, with reces-sive inheritance. We present the first record ever of leucism in pumas Puma concolor recorded in...

The buffy-tufted-ear marmoset (Callithrix aurita) is a small primate endemic to the montane regions of the southeastern Atlantic Forest in Brazil. The species was formerly listed as “Vulnerable” (VU) on the Brazilian Official National List of Threatened Fauna Species, but in December 2014 it was re-classified as “Endangered” (EN) as a result of hab...

This study aimed to investigate the species of felids that inhabit the Serra dos Órgãos National Park (Parnaso) and gastrointestinal parasites at various stages of their life cycles in the feces of these animals. Between 2013 and 2015, felid feces were collected from trails in Parnaso. The sampling points were georeferenced. A total of 82 fecal sam...

The use of camera traps for sampling terrestrial mammals can provide accurate information on the conservation status of an area. However, throughout the southeastern region of Brazil, only two other studies conducted sampling effort comparable to that performed here, which was developed between 2010 and 2012 for four trails in montane forest in Ita...

Scientific research is essential to generate information needed for the management and conservation of protected areas (PA). However, historically in Brazil the scientific community and protected area managers have kept a distance that has hampered the generation of knowledge truly applicable to PA management. On one side, researchers were seen as...

Um panorama do conhecimento científico sobre o Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos

The development of scientific research is one of the objectives of national parks. The scientific interest for the Serra dos Órgãos area is earlier than the establishment of the National Park, and dates back to the first European naturalists’ expeditions in Rio de Janeiro. Besides its exceptional natural attributes and being recognized as an area o...