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Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica · Zoologia

Mammalian collection of the Museu de Biologia Professor Mello Leitão: 70 years recording the biodiversity of Espírito Santo. The mammal collection of the Museum of Biology Professor Mello Leitão (MBML) of the National Institute of the Atlantic Forest (INMA) is a regional collection created in 1949. With almost 4,000 specimens, its data is availab...

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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...

Background As a landscape architect and a major seed disperser, the lowland tapir ( Tapirus terrestris ) is an important indicator of the ecological health of certain habitats. Therefore, reliable data regarding tapir populations are fundamental in understanding ecosystem dynamics, including those associated with the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. Curr...

Dendrogram predicting the number of lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) for the sites C and D in the Private Natural Heritage Reserve Recanto das Antas and surroundings, in Espírito Santo, Brazil. Each letter represents a location; a number represents a trail; a number and letter, a sub-trail, and the colors represent one individual.

Dendrogram predicting the number of lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) for the site B in the Private Natural Heritage Reserve Recanto das Antas and surroundings, in Espírito Santo, Brazil. Each letter represents a location; a number represents a trail; a number and letter, a sub-trail, and the colors represent one individual.

Dendrogram predicting the number of lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) for the site A in the Private Natural Heritage Reserve Recanto das Antas and surroundings, in Espírito Santo, Brazil. Each letter represents a location; a number represents a trail; a number and letter, a sub-trail; and the colors represent one individual.

Dendrogram predicting the number of lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) for the site E in the Private Natural Heritage Reserve Recanto das Antas and surroundings, in Espírito Santo, Brazil. Each letter represents a location; a number represents a trail; a number and letter, a sub-trail, and the colors represent one individual.

Dendrogram predicting the number of lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) for the site F in the Private Natural Heritage Reserve Recanto das Antas and surroundings, in Espírito Santo, Brazil. Each letter represents a location; a number represents a trail; a number and letter, a sub-trail, and the colors represent one individual.

Feature extraction script for the Lowland tapir in JMP software. Through this script, developed by WildTrack, the landmark points are selected on the basis of foot anatomy to include points which are clearly definable and repeatable across many footprints. After placing the landmark points, a set of derived points, geometrically constructed from th...

Pairwise robust cross-validated discriminant analysis. Pairwise analysis script, developed by WildTrack using a customized model, which generates the algorithm, the cluster dendrogram and the predicted number of individuals. For a detailed description of the development and validation of an optimal algorithm see Li et al. 2017.

Raw data. Lowland tapir footprints information collected in one or more sites in the Private Natural Heritage Reserve Recanto das Antas and surroundings, Espírito Santo, Brazil. Columns X1 to X22, Y1 to Y22, V1 to V91, and area1 to area6 are measurements calculated by the FIT algorithm. Latitude and longitude are in decimal degrees. Trail is an unb...

Lowland tapir footprints training-set database (reference library of footprints) from known captive animals, collected by Medici (2010) and extracted by WildTrack. Each column is a metric derived from the footprints, including lengths, angles, and areas, using the FIT Feature Extraction script (Document S1): V1 to V90 are derived values; columns su...

RESUMO: (Tendências sobre ecologia alimentar de Leopardus wiedii e Leopardus guttulus) Estudos sobre os hábitos alimentares fornecem informações essenciais para compreender a biologia das espécies, o comportamento alimentar dos predadores e, ainda, fornecem informações sobre a comunidade de presas em uma determinada área. No entanto, tais estudos t...

Here we describe novel post-dispersal seed predation by Atlantic Forest squirrels (Guerlinguetus ingrami). We show that the squirrel preys on seeds defecated by lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) in the Atlantic Forest, southeastern Brazil. The squirrel consumed seeds in tapir feces at a latrine, including Spondias macrocarpa, S. venulosa and Elae...

In Brazil, Private Reserves of Natural Heritage (RPPN) support protection of important forest patches that are essential habitats for endemic and endangered species. We present the first list of the medium and large-bodied mammals of RPPN Recanto das Antas from a heterogeneous landscape of Atlantic Forest in Espírito Santo, Brazil. We conducted cam...