Renata Leite Pitman

Duke University | DU · Nicholas School of the Environment

The Zona Reservada del Alto Purús is a 2.7 million-ha wilderness area, larger than the country of Belize, located in Peru’s Amazonian lowlands. Bounded by Manu National Park to the south and a mix of Brazilian indigenous territories and protected areas to the north and east, this sprawling, untouched backcountry is one of the most remote and poorly...

http://www.academia.edu/2911680/Canids_Foxes_Wolves_Jackals_and_Dogs._The_short_eared_dog_Atelocynus_microtis

The persistent high deforestation rate and fragmentation of the Amazon forests are the main threats to their biodiversity. To anticipate and mitigate these threats, it is important to understand and predict how species respond to the rapidly changing landscape. The short-eared dog Atelocynus microtis is the only Amazon-endemic canid and one of the...

The short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis) is the only endemic Amazonian canid species, which is also elusive and rarely recorded across its distribution, making it one of the least known canid species in the world. Even though it is considered to be a carnivore species, it has been reported to consume other food items, such as fruits. However, no c...

While elucidating the evolutionary trajectory of green anacondas, we previously documented the existence of two distinct species, Eunectes akayima sp. nov. and Eunectes murinus (Linnaeus, 1758), that separated approximately 10 million years ago. Our research integrates a novel molecular clock approach, focuses on tectonic plate movements with fossi...

Although behavior of E. murinus was broadly described over a century ago, observations of predation by E. murinus are rare. Some evidence suggests that it may target sites when hunting. We report details of six livestock depredation events at a single locality near Puerto Maldonado, Peru. Additionally, we compare positions of three radio-tagged sna...

Este estudio aborda la ecología de depredación poco estudiada de Atelocynus microtis, un cánido amazónico raro y casi amenazado. Detallamos eventos de depredación por la especie de félido, Panthera onca (Jaguar), observados en el sureste de Perú en 2004. Los descubrimientos se realizaron durante nuestra investigación en curso, que incluye seguimien...

We present observations of Chironius fuscus (Brown Sipo) partially buried for extended periods within Leaf-Cutter Ant nests.

Literature on the predation ecology of Amazonian canids is scarce, especially for the two rarely observed canids; Speothos venaticus (Bush Dog) and Atelocynus microtis (Short-eared Dog). Between 2000 and 2005 we documented one observation of predation of a A. microtis from southeastern Peru and an observation of S. venaticus predation from southwes...

We describe an incident of a wild ocelot that attacked a group of people in Southeastern Peru. Based on recorded evidence and scientific literature, we hypothesize disease affecting the central nervous system or human‐induced trauma as possible explanations for this abnormal behaviour.

We report a predation event by the poorly described short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis) on a breeding congregation of Osteocephalus taurinus

We investigated short-eared dog habitat associations on two spatial scales. First, we used the largest record database ever compiled for short-eared dogs in combination with species distribution models to map species habitat suitability, estimate its distribution range and predict shifts in species distribution in response to predicted deforestatio...

Mudam-se as localidades, países e continentes, mas o problema é unânime: onde há ação antrópica sobre o meio ambiente, há presença de animais domésticos. No Brasil, problemas como a falta de conscientização da população sobre a guarda responsável, a falta de políticas públicas que logrem o controle populacional de cães, bem como a má gestão de resí...

We report six new occurrence records of the bush dog Speothos venaticus, a widely distributed South American carnivore that is threatened with extinction. These records are accompanied by notes on the places where the records were made, such as vegetation type, date and information about the protection of areas. The records, obtained over the last...

Peru is strategically located in South America, sharing borders with Ecuador, Bolivia, Co- lombia, Brazil, and Chile, where the Rufford Foundation has supported over 400 projects (Peru 91, Ecuador 46, Bolivia 44, Colombia 89, Brazil 122, and Chile 56). Since many Rufford-supported projects are conservation-driven, we took this opportunity for grant...

"A comprehensive review of key biological and geographic classifications tied to the high-school and college curriculum. The reference work coverS the broad scope of biomes and ecosystems around the world, from puddles on the street to coral reefs in Australia to rain forests in Brazil to the tundra in Siberia. Each article will delve into the prop...

https://www.academia.edu/6145201/AVALIACAO_DO_RISCO_DE_EXTINCAO_DO_CACHORRO-DO-MATO-DE-ORELHAS-CURTAS_ATELOCYNUS_MICROTIS_SCLATER_1883_NO_BRASIL

http://www.icmbio.gov.br/revistaeletronica/index.php/BioBR/article/view/384

Considerando que a população efetiva de Speothos venaticus, somando Amazônia, Pantanal e Mata Atlântica foi estimada em aproximadamente 9.350 indivíduos e que a população do Cerrado tem uma probabilidade de extinção estimada em 100% em 100 anos, com média de tempo de extinção de 33 anos, segundo resultados de modelagem de viabilidade populacional,...

There is a general consensus on the geographic distributions of many primate species; however, the continuity and validity of species range maps are often inaccurate on a local scale. In the case of rare and cryptic species, census methodology is often insufficiently rigorous or specialized, resulting in probable false negatives. Callimico goeldii...

Themanedwolf Chrysocyonbrachyurus wasfirstdocumentedineastPeruin1976,attheextremewestofthespeciesdistribution.Themostrecentrecordisfrom1996,whenthespecieswasreportedtobescarceinthePampasdelHeathregion,theonlytropicalhumidsavannahinthePeruvianterritory.Wesearchedtheareaforsigns,listenedfor...

The high diversity of Peruvian carnivore species may pose problems when deciding to which taxa and topics new research efforts should be directed. In this publication, we evaluated the research effort made on each taxa -by assessing the number of publications per species-, point out the knowledge gaps that are important to the conservation of each...

La alta diversidad de especies de carnívoros del Perú puede generar problemas al momento de decidir los taxa y temas sobre los que deben dirigirse los esfuerzos de investigación. En este trabajo se evalúa el esfuerzo de investigación en base al número de publicaciones realizadas para cada familia y especie de carnívoro en el Perú. Asimismo, se seña...

Ecotourism has often been presented as the only sustainable source of incomes for the inhabitants of upper Amazonia, yet the real socioeconomic benefits of the activity remain controversial and its impact on wildlife, poorly studied. We assessed the diversity of large mammals in a land plot used for ecotourism in the banks of Alto Madre de Dios riv...

Mammal inventories in tropical forests are often difficult to carry out, and many elusive species are missed or only reported from interviews with local people. Camera traps offer a new tool for conducting inventories of large- and medium-sized terrestrial mammals. We evaluated the efficiency of camera traps based on data from two surveys carried o...

The Interoceanic Highway, connecting Brazil to the Pacific, is under construction. Catastrophic impacts have been predicted for the high biodiversity forests of the western Amazon and eastern Andes. In Peru, the highway will bisect a globally important complex of protected areas where at least seven species of cats occur. Surveys of domestic dog...

Brazil’s Atlantic Coastal Forest is the second most endangered tropical forest in the world and only 5% of this ecosystem remains. Although 30% of this ecosystem is inside protected areas, only paper protects most of them and there are people and domestic animals living inside. The largest and best protected tract of the Atlantic Coastal Forest...

https://www.academia.edu/342059/Ecology_and_Conservation_of_the_Jaguar_Panthera_onca_in_Iguacu_National_Park_Brazil

The giant armadillo is an elusive, poorly known, and globally threatened species. Our aim is to study its landscape use, in order to design science-based conservation strategies for Amazonian biodiversity. In November 2003 we captured a 30-kg male in its burrow in theAmazonian lowlands of Peru and fixed a transmitter to the side of its carapace. Si...

Many small carnivores include rodents in their diet. However, due to varying evolutionary strategies, carnivores differ in their metabolism and energy requirements. Hence, comparisons of diet between carnivores would be more meaningful if the body size and energetics of the predators are considered. The diet of three small carnivores (jungle cat Fe...

L os ríos Manu y Alto Purús, en el sudeste del Perú, están separados por una extensa área de selva baja amazónica, cubierta por una vegetación bien conservada de hábitats bastante variados, en donde están reportados algunos de los índices más altos de diversidad de mamíferos terrestres y arbóreos en la Amazonía (Voss y Emmons 1996). Dos áreas prote...

http://www.academia.edu/342036/Manual_de_identificacao_prevencao_e_controle_de_predacao_por_carnivoros

Brazil’s Atlantic coastal forest is the second most endangered tropical forestin the world and only 8% of this ecosystem remains (roughly 8000000 ha). While theforest remnants currently support populations of jaguars and pumas in more than athird of the protected areas, most of the forest is in fact unprotected, fragmented, andactively used by loca...

Brazil's Atlantic Coastal Forest is the second most endangered tropical forest in the world and only 5% of this ecosystem remains. Although 30% of this ecosystem is inside protected areas, only paper protects most of them and there are people and domestic animals living inside. The largest and best protected tract of the Atlantic Coastal Forest is...