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Project Proposals 2021-2022
Project Proposals 2021-2022 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Protection of Wintering and Stop-Over sites in the Conservation Coast Birdscape, Guatemala ................................ 3 Protection of Desert Grasslands Migratory Bird Habitat in the El Tokio Grassland Priority Conservation Area (in the Saltillo BirdScape) ......................................................................................................................................................... 7 A Sustainable Grazing Network to Protect and Restore Grasslands on Private and Communal Lands in Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert ..................................................................................................................................................... 10 Protecting stopover and wintering habitat for key priority species of shorebirds and waterbirds in Laguna Madre, Mexico ........................................................................................................................................................................ 13 Migratory Bird Wintering Grounds Conservation in Nicaragua and Honduras .......................................................... 16 Conserving Critical Piping Plover and other Shorebirds Wintering Sites in the Bahamas .......................................... 22 Conservation and Management of Neotropical Migratory Birds and Thick- billed Parrots in old-growth forests of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico ........................................................................................................................ -
Multi-National Conservation of Alligator Lizards
MULTI-NATIONAL CONSERVATION OF ALLIGATOR LIZARDS: APPLIED SOCIOECOLOGICAL LESSONS FROM A FLAGSHIP GROUP by ADAM G. CLAUSE (Under the Direction of John Maerz) ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is defined by unprecedented human influence on the biosphere. Integrative conservation recognizes this inextricable coupling of human and natural systems, and mobilizes multiple epistemologies to seek equitable, enduring solutions to complex socioecological issues. Although a central motivation of global conservation practice is to protect at-risk species, such organisms may be the subject of competing social perspectives that can impede robust interventions. Furthermore, imperiled species are often chronically understudied, which prevents the immediate application of data-driven quantitative modeling approaches in conservation decision making. Instead, real-world management goals are regularly prioritized on the basis of expert opinion. Here, I explore how an organismal natural history perspective, when grounded in a critique of established human judgements, can help resolve socioecological conflicts and contextualize perceived threats related to threatened species conservation and policy development. To achieve this, I leverage a multi-national system anchored by a diverse, enigmatic, and often endangered New World clade: alligator lizards. Using a threat analysis and status assessment, I show that one recent petition to list a California alligator lizard, Elgaria panamintina, under the US Endangered Species Act often contradicts the best available science. -
Supplemental Material Conservation Status of the Herpetofauna
Official journal website: Amphibian & Reptile Conservation amphibian-reptile-conservation.org 8(2) [Special Section]: 1–18; S1–S24 (e87). Supplemental Material Conservation status of the herpetofauna, protected areas, and current problems in Valle del Cauca, Colombia 1Alejandro Valencia-Zuleta, Andrés Felipe Jaramillo-Martínez, Andrea Echeverry-Bocanegra, Ron- ald Viáfara-Vega, Oscar Hernández-Córdoba, Victoria E. Cardona-Botero, Jaime Gutiérrez-Zúñiga, and Fernando Castro-Herrera Universidad del Valle, Grupo Laboratorio de Herpetología, Departamento de Biología, Cali, COLOMBIA Citation: Valencia-Zuleta A, Jaramillo-Martínez AF, Echeverry-Bocanegra A, Viáfara-Vega R, Hernández-Córdoba O, Cardona-Botero VE, Gutiérrez- Zúñiga J, Castro-Herrera F. 2014. Conservation status of the herpetofauna, protected areas, and current problems in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 8(2) [Special Section]: 1–18; S1–S24 (e87). Copyright: © 2014 Valencia-Zuleta et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCom- mercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use for non-commercial and education purposes only, in any medium, provided the original author and the official and authorized publication sources are recognized and properly credited. The official and authorized publication credit sources, which will be duly enforced, are as follows: official journal title Amphibian & Reptile Conservation; official journal website <amphibian-reptile-conservation.org>. Received: 12 March 2014; Accepted: 24 November 2014; Published: 19 December 2014 Table 1. Taxonomic list of amphibians and reptile of the department of Valle del Cauca (Cardona-B. et al. 2014). Actualization of threat categories based on: IUCN (red list), Red Book of Amphibians (Rueda et al. -
Pachira Aquatica, (Zapotón, Pumpo)
How to Grow a Sacred Maya Flower Pachira aquatica, (Zapotón, Pumpo) Nicholas Hellmuth 1 Introduction: There are several thousand species of flowering plants in Guatemala. Actually there are several thousand flowering TREES in Guatemala. If you count all the bushes, shrubs, and vines, you add thousands more. Then count the grasses, water plants; that’s a lot of flowers to look at. Actually, if you count the orchids in Guatemala you would run out of numbers! Yet out of these “zillions” of beautiful tropical flowers, the Classic Maya, for thousands of years, picture less than 30 different species. It would be a challenge to find representations of a significant number of orchids in Maya art: strange, since they are beautiful, and there are orchids throughout the Maya homeland as well as in the Olmec homeland, plus orchids are common in the Izapa area of proto_Maya habitation in Chiapas. Yet other flowers are pictured in Maya yart, yet in the first 150 years of Maya studies, only one single solitary flower species was focused on: the sacred water lily flower! (I know this focus well, I wrote my PhD dissertation featuring this water lily). But already already 47 years ago, I had noticed flowers on Maya vases: there were several vases that I discovered myself in a royal burial at Tikal that pictured stylized 4-petaled flowers (Burial 196, the Tomb of the Jade Jaguar). Still, if you have XY-thousand flowers blooming around you, why did the Maya picture less than 30? In other words, why did the Maya select the water lily as their #1 flower? I know most of the reasons, but the point is, the Maya had XY-thousand. -
Stand Growth Scenarios for Bombacopsis Quinata Plantations In
Forest Ecology and Management 174 (2003) 345–352 Stand growth scenarios for Bombacopsis quinata plantations in Costa Rica Luis Diego Pe´rez Corderoa,b,1, Markku Kanninenc,*, Luis Alberto Ugalde Ariasd,2 aAgreement Centro Agrono´mico Tropical de Investigacio´n y Ensen˜anza (CATIE), Turrialba, Costa Rica bUniversity of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland cCentro Agrono´mico Tropical de Investigacio´n y Ensen˜anza (CATIE), Research Program, 7170 Turrialba, Costa Rica dPlantation Silviculture, CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica Abstract In total 60 plots of approximately 80 trees each (including missing trees) were measured, with ages between 1 and 26 years. The main objective of this study was to develop intensive management scenarios for B. quinata plantations in Costa Rica to ensure high yielding of timber wood. The scenarios were based on a fitted curve for the relationship of DBH, and total height with age. A criterion of maximum basal area (18, 20, 22 and 24 m2 haÀ1) was used to simulate different site qualities. Plantation density was modeled as a function of the crown area occupation of the standing trees. The scenarios consist of rotation periods between 23 and 30 years, final densities of 100–120 trees haÀ1, mean DBH between 46 and 56 cm, and mean total heights of 30–35 m. The productivity at the end of the rotation varies between 9.6 and 11.3 m3 haÀ1 per year, yielding a total volume at the end of the rotation of 220–340 m3 haÀ1. The scenarios presented here may provide farmers and private companies with useful and realistic growth projections for B. -
Bibliography and Scientific Name Index to Amphibians
lb BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SCIENTIFIC NAME INDEX TO AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES IN THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON BULLETIN 1-8, 1918-1988 AND PROCEEDINGS 1-100, 1882-1987 fi pp ERNEST A. LINER Houma, Louisiana SMITHSONIAN HERPETOLOGICAL INFORMATION SERVICE NO. 92 1992 SMITHSONIAN HERPETOLOGICAL INFORMATION SERVICE The SHIS series publishes and distributes translations, bibliographies, indices, and similar items judged useful to individuals interested in the biology of amphibians and reptiles, but unlikely to be published in the normal technical journals. Single copies are distributed free to interested individuals. Libraries, herpetological associations, and research laboratories are invited to exchange their publications with the Division of Amphibians and Reptiles. We wish to encourage individuals to share their bibliographies, translations, etc. with other herpetologists through the SHIS series. If you have such items please contact George Zug for instructions on preparation and submission. Contributors receive 50 free copies. Please address all requests for copies and inquiries to George Zug, Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 20560 USA. Please include a self-addressed mailing label with requests. INTRODUCTION The present alphabetical listing by author (s) covers all papers bearing on herpetology that have appeared in Volume 1-100, 1882-1987, of the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington and the four numbers of the Bulletin series concerning reference to amphibians and reptiles. From Volume 1 through 82 (in part) , the articles were issued as separates with only the volume number, page numbers and year printed on each. Articles in Volume 82 (in part) through 89 were issued with volume number, article number, page numbers and year. -
Parasite Communities of Tropical Forest Rodents: Influences of Microhabitat Structure and Specialization
PARASITE COMMUNITIES OF TROPICAL FOREST RODENTS: INFLUENCES OF MICROHABITAT STRUCTURE AND SPECIALIZATION By Ashley M. Winker Parasitism is the most common life style and has important implications for the ecology and evolution of hosts. Most organisms host multiple species of parasites, and parasite communities are frequently influenced by the degree of host specialization. Parasite communities are also influenced by their habitat – both the host itself and the habitat that the host occupies. Tropical forest rodents are ideal for examining hypotheses relating parasite community composition to host habitat and host specialization. Proechimys semispinosus and Hoplomys gymnurus are morphologically-similar echimyid rodents; however, P. semispinosus is more generalized, occupying a wider range of habitats. I predicted that P. semispinosus hosts a broader range of parasite species that are less host-specific than does H. gymnurus and that parasite communities of P. semispinosus are related to microhabitat structure, host density, and season. During two dry and wet seasons, individuals of the two rodent species were trapped along streams in central Panama to compare their parasites, and P. semispinosus was sampled on six plots of varying microhabitat structure in contiguous lowland forest to compare parasite loads to microhabitat structure. Such structure was quantified by measuring thirteen microhabitat variables, and dimensions were reduced to a smaller subset using factor analysis to define overall structure. Ectoparasites were collected from each individual, and blood smears were obtained to screen for filarial worms and trypanosomes. In support of my prediction, the habitat generalist ( P. semispinosus ) hosted more individual fleas, mites, and microfilaria; contrary to my prediction, the habitat specialist (H. -
Advertisement Call of Pratt's Rocket Frog, Colostethus Pratti, from The
SALAMANDRA 56(4): 395–400 SALAMANDRA 30 October 2020 ISSN 0036–3375 Correspondence German Journal of Herpetology Correspondence Advertisement call of Pratt’s rocket frog, Colostethus pratti, from the western Andes of Colombia (Anura: Dendrobatidae) Juan David Jiménez-Bolaño1, Andrés Camilo Montes-Correa1, Franziska Leonhardt2 & Juan Manuel Renjifo1 1) Grupo de Investigación en Manejo & Conservación de Fauna, Flora & Ecosistemas Estratégicos Neotropicales (MIKU), Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia 2) Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, A. B. Meyer Building, 01109 Dresden, Germany Corresponding author: Andrés Camilo Montes-Correa, e-mail: [email protected] Manuscript received: 22 July 2019 Accepted: 14 April 2020 by Stefan Lötters Northwestern South America is one of the biologically most phibian checklists (Cochran & Goin 1970, Ruiz-Car- diverse yet least known regions of the world. The Tropi- ranza et al. 1994, Acosta-Galvis 2000, Lynch & Suá- cal Andes and Chocó-Tumbes-Magdalena ecoregions, two rez-Mayorga 2004, Ballesteros-Correa et al. 2019). hotspots with high degrees of endemism and conservation The most recent information onC. pratti in Colombia con- priority (Myers et al. 2000, Rodríguez-Mahecha et al. cerns its altitudinal distribution, relative abundance, and 2004), are part of this region. Especially the Chocoan low- natural history in the northernmost part of the western lands and the western Andes of Colombia are areas with Andes, at the Serranía de San Jerónimo, Departamento de exceptional high amphibian diversity and many endemic Córdoba (Romero-Martínez et al. 2008, Ballesteros- taxa (e.g., Lynch et al. 1997, Lynch & Suárez-Mayorga Correa et al. 2019). To the best of our knowledge, there is 2004, Armesto & Señaris 2017). -
Small Mammals of Santa Rosa, Southwestern Imbabura Province, Ecuador
Occasional Papers Museum of Texas Tech University Number 290 20 January 2010 Small mammalS of Santa RoSa, SouthweSteRn ImbabuRa PRovInce, ecuadoR Thomas E. LEE, Jr., sanTiago F. BurnEo, TyLEr J. CoChran, and daniEL ChávEz abStRact In 2008 a mammal survey was conducted in humid tropical forest on the western slope of the Andes near the town of Santa Rosa. Sherman traps, tomahawk traps, pitfall traps, and mist nets were used to collect mammal specimens at two sites (450 m elevation and 702 m eleva- tion). A total of 113 specimens of 32 species were collected from the survey area. Seventeen Chiropteran species (Saccopteryx bilineata, Anoura fistulata, Glossophaga soricina, Micro- nycteris megalotis, Phyllostomus discolor, Carollia perspicillata, Sturnira bogotensis, Sturnira luisi, Artibeus jamaicensis, Dermanura rava, Dermanura rosenbergii, Platyrrhinus vittatus, Vampyriscus nymphaea, Vampyressa thyone, Eumops auripendulus, Eptesicus innoxius, and Myotis albescens) and one rodent species (Sigmodontomys aphrastus) represent new records for southwestern Imbabura. New elevation records also were documented for Anoura fistulata and Sturnira bogotensis. Shannon diversity analyses of the Chiropteran fauna and overall mammal diversity indicated greater diversity at the 450 m site. Key words: Ecuador, mammal range records, Santa Rosa, southwestern Imbabura ReSumen En el 2008 se llevó a cabo una evaluación de mamíferos en un bosque húmedo tropical de las estribaciones occidentales de los Andes cerca del pueblo de Santa Rosa. Se utilizaron trampas tipo Sherman, Tomahawk, de caída y redes de neblina para colectar mamíferos de dos localidades (a 450 y 702 m de altitud). Un total de 113 especímenes de 32 especies fueron colectados en el área de estudio. -
The Neotropical Region Sensu the Areas of Endemism of Terrestrial Mammals
Australian Systematic Botany, 2017, 30, 470–484 ©CSIRO 2017 doi:10.1071/SB16053_AC Supplementary material The Neotropical region sensu the areas of endemism of terrestrial mammals Elkin Alexi Noguera-UrbanoA,B,C,D and Tania EscalanteB APosgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Unidad de Posgrado, Edificio A primer piso, Circuito de Posgrados, Ciudad Universitaria, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 04510 Mexico City, Mexico. BGrupo de Investigación en Biogeografía de la Conservación, Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 04510 Mexico City, Mexico. CGrupo de Investigación de Ecología Evolutiva, Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Nariño, Ciudadela Universitaria Torobajo, 1175-1176 Nariño, Colombia. DCorresponding author. Email: [email protected] Page 1 of 18 Australian Systematic Botany, 2017, 30, 470–484 ©CSIRO 2017 doi:10.1071/SB16053_AC Table S1. List of taxa processed Number Taxon Number Taxon 1 Abrawayaomys ruschii 55 Akodon montensis 2 Abrocoma 56 Akodon mystax 3 Abrocoma bennettii 57 Akodon neocenus 4 Abrocoma boliviensis 58 Akodon oenos 5 Abrocoma budini 59 Akodon orophilus 6 Abrocoma cinerea 60 Akodon paranaensis 7 Abrocoma famatina 61 Akodon pervalens 8 Abrocoma shistacea 62 Akodon philipmyersi 9 Abrocoma uspallata 63 Akodon reigi 10 Abrocoma vaccarum 64 Akodon sanctipaulensis 11 Abrocomidae 65 Akodon serrensis 12 Abrothrix 66 Akodon siberiae 13 Abrothrix andinus 67 Akodon simulator 14 Abrothrix hershkovitzi 68 Akodon spegazzinii 15 Abrothrix illuteus -
Home-Range Size and Overlap Within an Introduced Population of the Cuban Knight Anole, Anolis Equestris (Squamata: Iguanidae)
Phyllomedusa 10(1):65–73, 2011 © 2011 Departamento de Ciências Biológicas - ESALQ - USP ISSN 1519-1397 Home-range size and overlap within an introduced population of the Cuban Knight Anole, Anolis equestris (Squamata: Iguanidae) Kirsten E. Nicholson1 and Paul M. Richards2 1 Department of Biology, and Museum of Cultural & Natural History, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. 2 USDOC NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, 75 Virginia Beach Dr., Miami, Florida 33149, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Abstract Home-range size and overlap within an introduced population of the Cuban Knight Anole, Anolis equestris (Squamata: Iguanidae). Many studies have investigated the spatial relationships of terrestrial lizards, but arboreal species remain poorly studied because they are difficult to observe. The conventional view of homerange size and overlap among territorial, polygynous species of lizards is that: (1) male home ranges are larger than those of females; (2) male home ranges usually encompass, or substantially overlap, those of several females; and (3) male home-range overlap varies but often is minimal, but female home ranges frequently overlap extensively. However, the paucity of pertinent studies makes it difficult to generalize these patterns to arboreal lizards. We investigated home-range size and overlap in the arboreal Knight Anole, Anolis equestris, and compared our findings to published homerange data for 15 other species of Anolis. Using radiotelemetry and markrecapture/resight techniques, we analyzed the home ranges of individuals from an introduced population of Knight Anoles in Miami, Florida. The home ranges of both sexes substantially overlapped those of the same- and different-sex individuals. -
Literature Cited in Lizards Natural History Database
Literature Cited in Lizards Natural History database Abdala, C. S., A. S. Quinteros, and R. E. Espinoza. 2008. Two new species of Liolaemus (Iguania: Liolaemidae) from the puna of northwestern Argentina. Herpetologica 64:458-471. Abdala, C. S., D. Baldo, R. A. Juárez, and R. E. Espinoza. 2016. The first parthenogenetic pleurodont Iguanian: a new all-female Liolaemus (Squamata: Liolaemidae) from western Argentina. Copeia 104:487-497. Abdala, C. S., J. C. Acosta, M. R. Cabrera, H. J. Villaviciencio, and J. Marinero. 2009. A new Andean Liolaemus of the L. montanus series (Squamata: Iguania: Liolaemidae) from western Argentina. South American Journal of Herpetology 4:91-102. Abdala, C. S., J. L. Acosta, J. C. Acosta, B. B. Alvarez, F. Arias, L. J. Avila, . S. M. Zalba. 2012. Categorización del estado de conservación de las lagartijas y anfisbenas de la República Argentina. Cuadernos de Herpetologia 26 (Suppl. 1):215-248. Abell, A. J. 1999. Male-female spacing patterns in the lizard, Sceloporus virgatus. Amphibia-Reptilia 20:185-194. Abts, M. L. 1987. Environment and variation in life history traits of the Chuckwalla, Sauromalus obesus. Ecological Monographs 57:215-232. Achaval, F., and A. Olmos. 2003. Anfibios y reptiles del Uruguay. Montevideo, Uruguay: Facultad de Ciencias. Achaval, F., and A. Olmos. 2007. Anfibio y reptiles del Uruguay, 3rd edn. Montevideo, Uruguay: Serie Fauna 1. Ackermann, T. 2006. Schreibers Glatkopfleguan Leiocephalus schreibersii. Munich, Germany: Natur und Tier. Ackley, J. W., P. J. Muelleman, R. E. Carter, R. W. Henderson, and R. Powell. 2009. A rapid assessment of herpetofaunal diversity in variously altered habitats on Dominica.