Fernanda Pozzan Paim- PhD
- Professor (Assistant) at Instituto Federal Rio Grande do Sul
Fernanda Pozzan Paim
- PhD
- Professor (Assistant) at Instituto Federal Rio Grande do Sul
Professor of Biology
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March 2005 - present
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December 2013 - August 2017
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Publications (45)
Definição do estado de ameaça de Saimiri macrodon, a partir do Processo de Avaliação do Risco de Extinção da Fauna Brasileira, conduzido pelo Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade. Saimiri macrodon ocorre na Colômbia, Equador, Peru e Brasil, onde está presente no Amazonas e Acre. Suspeitamos que sua tendência populacional esteja e...
While the 2023 record-breaking drought led to widespread social-ecological impacts across Amazonia, local impacts of such extreme events are rarely described in detail. Here we leverage a large interdisciplinary data collection related to social and ecological impacts in the Central Amazon. Compound hazards (reduced river water levels, lack of rain...
Saimiri cassiquiarensis cassiquiarensis (Cebidae) is a primate subspecies with a wide distribution in the Amazonian region of Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. However, the boundaries of its geographic range remain poorly defined. This study presents new occurrence localities for this subspecies and updates its distribution using a compiled data set...
As one of the countries with the greatest biological wealth on the planet, Brazil has huge wildlife tourism potential. This chapter discusses the diversity, main challenges, and potential of mammal-based tourism in the Brazilian Amazon. Via an extensive bibliographic review, an overview of the activity is provided, and approaches are suggested that...
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vertebrate diversity is still deficient and scattered across the published, peer‐reviewed, and gray literature and in unpublished raw data.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vertebrate diversity is still deficient and scattered across the published, peer-reviewed, and gray literature and in unpublished raw data.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...
Contendo em seu território uma das maiores riquezas biológicas do planeta, o Brasil está entre os países com maior potencial para o turismo com fauna silvestre. Neste artigo são discutidos a diversidade, os desafios e as potencialidades do turismo com mamíferos na Amazônia brasileira. Por meio de ampla busca e revisão bibliográfica, é fornecido um...
1. Effective estimation of wildlife population abundance is an important component of population monitoring, and ultimately essential for the development of conservation actions. Diurnal line-transect surveys are one of the most applied methods for abundance estimations. Local ecological knowledge (LEK) is empirically acquired through the observati...
The 2030 Agenda was set in 2015 by the United Nations, with 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Amazonian riverine people are recognized as traditional communities that have their own culture and use the local natural resources of their territories in an ancestral and traditional way. The Sustainable Development Reserve is a Brazilian protected a...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected tourism worldwide. This paper examines the impacts of pandemic on companies and professionals related to ecotourism in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. For this purpose, we sent online structured questionnaire to workers in the sector, whose participation was voluntary and anonymous. We had 44 responses from seven m...
Community-based tourism is a participatory approach implemented to support the economic and social development of local communities. Here, we present the results of an initiative of primate tourism in the Mamirauá Reserve for Sustainable Development (Mamirauá SDR), Amazon rainforest, Brazil. Between January and December 2019, we monitored the sight...
This species is listed as Endangered, given that its entire range is confined to one location within an area of occupancy of 870 km², which is split into three geographically isolated subpopulations with no demographic or genetic exchange: Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, Capucho and Tarará islands. Although this protected area is well man...
Ateles chamek is listed as Endangered as the species is estimated to have declined by at least 50% over the past 45 years (three generations) primarily due to hunting and habitat loss. The forests in the southern part of its range, particularly in the states of Rondônia and Mato Grosso (Brazil), are devastated along the agricultural frontier/arc of...
IUCN Red List for Ateles chame
Population monitoring of endangered species is essential to the improvement of their management and conservation plans. The black-headed squirrel monkey (Saimiri vanzolinii) is a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List and has extreme geographical endemism, exhibiting the smallest known distribution among Neotropical primates (ca. 870 km2 ), over 9...
The Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve (MSDR) is the largest protected area dedicated to the conservation of biodiversity in floodplain forests. Primate richness
there is one of the highest in an Amazonian protected area, but primatological studies are still incipient. The black-headed squirrel monkey (Saimiri vanzolinii) was described in 198...
The rapid disappearance of tropical forests, the potential impacts of climate change, and the increasing threats of bushmeat hunting to wildlife, makes it imperative that we understand wildlife population dynamics. With long-lived animals this requires extensive, long-term data, but such data is often lacking. Here we present longitudinal data docu...
Integration between ecology and biogeography provides insights into how niche specialization affects the geographical distribution of species. Given that rivers are not effective barriers to dispersal in three parapatric species of squirrel monkeys (Saimiri vanzolinii, S. cassiquiarensis and S. macrodon) inhabiting floodplain forests of Central Ama...
Seasonal changes in food availability influence the behavior and diet of
primates, and an understanding of dietary changes is important for the development
of informed conservation plans. Saimiri vanzolinii is a small-bodied, omnivorous
squirrel monkey endemic to the floodplain forests in Central Amazonia.
It has a restricted distribution of only c...
Morphological information on the reproductive system allows the understanding of ecological and behavioural aspects of different species as well as supports the development of conservational strategies. Unfortunately, for many species, not enough relevant and precise information is available. In the present study, we describe for the first time the...
Primates are long-lived animals with complex life histories, which slowly impact their environment through seed dispersal and herbivory. As a result, short-term studies only provide a snapshot of a primate's life and poorly represent their environmental effects. Therefore long-term studies are needed. The need for long-term studies has taken on urg...
Ovarian agenesis is an unusual anomaly with traumatic or congenital origin. In the present case report, we describe our findings in a senile S. vanzolinii female. As this neotropical primate species is listed as vulnerable, with limited geographic distribution in the Brazilian Amazonia, ovarian agenesis may be an important finding to be reported.
Sperm morphometry can be applied to identify different animal groups and species and to evaluate sperm quality. Furthermore, knowledge on species-specific differences will help to enhance biological information, as well as to develop efficient reproductive technologies. The aims in the present study were to describe sperm morphometry from the recen...
Tropical landscapes are changing rapidly as a result of human modifications; however, despite increasing deforestation, human population growth, and the need for more agricultural land, deforestation rates have exceeded the rate at which land is converted to cropland or pasture. For deforested lands to have conservation value requires an understand...
Field studies of primates often require the capture and marking of individuals in order to monitor behavior, health and
population parameters. However, there have been few field studies in which squirrel monkeys (genus Saimiri) have been
successfully captured. Here we report results obtained using two different trapping methods to capture Saimiri v...
The squirrel monkey, Saimiri, is a pan-Amazonian Pleistocene radiation. We use statistical phylogeographic methods to create a mitochondrial DNA-based timetree for 118 squirrel monkey samples across 68 localities spanning all Amazonian centers of endemism, with the aim of better understanding (1) the effects of rivers as barriers to dispersal and d...
The black-faced black spider monkey (Ateles chamek) is endangered because of hunting and habitat loss. There are many gaps in our understanding of its geographic distribution. The Ucayali-Solimões-Amazon fluvial complex is currently recognized as the northern boundary of the species' range, although published reports have indicated that it occurs n...
Eleven taxa of primates are found in the floodplains of the western portion of the central Brazilian Amazon, protected in part by the Mamiraua Sustainable Development Reserve. The taxonomy of the squirrel monkeys, the number of taxa, and their geographic distributions are still poorly understood. Here we investigate differentiation among the taxa o...
Associações interespecíficas são frequentemente observadas em grupos de primatas. Entretanto, poucos estudos abordaram a influência do hábitat na frequência e composição de grupos associados. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi identificar as associações entre primatas em florestas de terra firme e várzea em uma região da Amazônia Central. Utilizamos o m...
A carne de animais silvestres é uma importante fonte de proteína animal e de renda para diversas populações humanas do mundo. Na Amazônia brasileira, a população rural consome anualmente entre 67.173 a 164.692 toneladas de animais silvestres. Nas RDS's Mamirauá e Amanã, 47 espécies de mamíferos são sujeitas a caça, sendo Alouatta juara a espécie ma...
The environmental seasonality in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve (MSDR) gives ecotourism management unique characteristics, both in terms of the availability of ecotourism attractions as well as logistical, operational and economic challenges. The extreme drought in 2010 exemplified an unusual effect on ecotourism activity in the MSDR....
Mamirauá Institute’s Uakari Lodge maintains an ecotourism program, which includes monitoring primates on trails, with a view to evaluating the effects of ecotourism on these animals. The aim of this study was to assess if primate density is affected by ecotourism. Two trails of minimum use (low tourist visitation frequency) and two of intense use (...
Mamirauá Institute's Uakari Lodge maintains an ecotourism program, which includes monitoring primates on trails, with a view to evaluating the effects of ecotourism on these animals. The aim of this study was to assess if primate density is affected by ecotourism. Two trails of minimum use (low tourist visitation frequency) and two of intense use (...
ResUmo vocalizações de animais são geralmente espécies-específicas e podem ser consideradas como uma importante ferramenta para estudos taxonômicos. o objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar parâmetros acústicos da vocalização de alarme das espécies de Saimiri da RDsm, realizando comparações interespecíficas. Realizou-se a espera pela passagem de indi...
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Making Science is a continuous challenge. Currently, one of the hardest ones is to get fundings, but also publish our manuscripts in good journals (which charges is quite expensive). Especially in developing countries these issues are still worst (I am still not saying anything about English... not yet!). In a world in crisis, where hundreds of (good) scientists are not able to find a job, where economic perspective is getting worst, where Science is not faced as a priority and and the climate changes is seen as joke, what should we do?
