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Animal Biodiversity and Conservation in Brazil's Northern Atlantic Forest

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  • First book that centrally collects knowledge about the fauna of the Pernambuco Endemism Center
  • Argues for conservation of remaining forest fragments
  • Details conservation efforts in the region

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This book describes the fauna of the Pernambuco Endemism Center in Brazil's Northern Atlantic Forest, an understudied global biodiversity hotspot. Through fifteen curated chapters, it provides the latest information about the fauna of the northern portion of the Atlantic Forest, gathering important information about the faunal composition of the region for the first time. The chapters address animal biodiversity including terrestrial and aquatic vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals) and invertebrates (ants, butterflies, dung beetles, hervestmen, spiders, and termites). All chapters provide species lists, taxonomic aspects and richness analysis. Conservation of specific animal groups is also discussed. Finally, the book discusses human impacts on the forest and its biodiversity, emphasizing the need for conservation of this highly impacted ecosystem.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil

    Gentil Alves Pereira Filho

  • Dept. de Engenharia e Meio Ambiente, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Rio Tinto, Brazil

    Frederico Gustavo Rodrigues França

  • Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campina Grande, Brazil

    Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves

  • Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil

    Alexandre Vasconcellos

About the editors

Gentil Alves Pereira Filho is a biologist  (Ph.D in Zoology, 2011) who has been dedicated to the study of snakes in the neotropical region specially in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. His main interests are taxonomy and ecology of neotropical snakes. He has conducted researches in Northeastern Brazil focused on the distribution of the snakes of the Atlantic Forest for more than 15 years resulting in several published articles. Nowadays he is an associated research at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) and coordinates projects about snake ecology in the Atlantic Forest.

Frederico G.R. França is a biologist (Ph.D. in Ecology, 2008), associate professor at Federal University of Paraíba – UFPB, and coordinator of Ecology Postgraduate Course. His keen interest is snake ecology and conservation, and his areas of academic interest are population and community ecology, ecomorphology and conservation biology. He has conducting research about Brazilian herpetofauna, mainly in the Cerrado and the Atlantic Forest.

Rômulo R.N. Alves is a biologist (Ph.D. in Zoology, 2006) with a keen interest in the connections between humans and animals. His areas of academic interest are ethnozoology and wildlife trade, uses and conservation. He has conducted ethnobiological research for the last twenty years, which focuses on ethnozoology, particularly on fisheries, hunting, and wildlife trade and uses. He coordinates projects on hunting and uses of wildlife in Brazil. In addition, he is one of the Editors-in-Chief of the journal Ethnobiology and Conservation and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. He also holds a Productivity scholarship provided by the National Council of Science and Technology (CNPq).

Alexandre Vasconcellos has a PhD in Biological Sciences (Zoology) from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil. He develops projects on termite ecology and biogeography, soil ecology and conservation biology in neotropical ecosystems. He is curator of the Isoptera Collection and Coordinator of the Termitology Laboratory (LabTermes-UFPB). He has a Productivity Scholarship in Research, supported by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Animal Biodiversity and Conservation in Brazil's Northern Atlantic Forest

  • Editors: Gentil Alves Pereira Filho, Frederico Gustavo Rodrigues França, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, Alexandre Vasconcellos

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21287-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21286-4Published: 15 April 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21289-5Published: 02 May 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-21287-1Published: 13 April 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 276

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 73 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Biodiversity, Ecology, Geography, general

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