Carlos A Peres
Biographic Data
| ID | 132801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carlos A Peres |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carlos A |
| FAMILY NAME | Peres |
| SIGNATURE | PERES C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1588-8765 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Property size linked to deforestation, fragmentation and forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon
Deforestation and forest degradation within Brazilian Amazonia primarily occur on private lands, yet their extent varies considerably among properties. We combine high-resolution remote-sensing and land-ownership data to analyse relationships between property size and forest retention, canopy height, fragmentation and fire prevalence across 30,022 private properties within an > 113,000 km 2 consolidated agricultural frontier. Bayesian geospatial …
Urban Agriculture: Setting the Agenda on Plant-pollinator Interactions Among Food Plants, Research Funding, and Policy Actions
We review published research on plant-pollinator interactions among food plants in urban agriculture worldwide and provide a critical overview of the spatiotemporal distribution of knowledge, urban plant-pollinator profiles, and research funding for urban agriculture and ecosystem services. We also highlight the potential of urban agriculture to create pollinator-friendly spaces that support local pollinator conservation. We conclude that pollina…
A simple suitability index to guide site selection for primate translocations: An example from northeastern Brazil
Community-based management expands ecosystem protection footprint in Amazonian forests
Community-based conservation has gained traction in the Brazilian Amazon because of its potential in combining territorial protection, local well-being and biodiversity conservation. We assessed the footprint of effective protection, areas actively monitored and defended through community-led surveillance, where illegal activities such as poaching, fishing and logging are successfully prevented, within the largest community-based fisheries conser…
Catastrophic wildfires in the Pantanal wetlands as catalysts for transformative change
Predicting animal abundance through local ecological knowledge: An internal validation using consensus analysis
Given the ongoing environmental degradation from local to global scales, it is fundamental to develop more efficient means of gathering data on species and ecosystems. Local ecological knowledge, in which local communities can consistently provide information on the status of animal species over time, has been shown to be effective. Several studies demonstrate that data gathered using local ecological knowledge (LEK)‐based methods are comparable …
Seasonal Dynamics of Salt Licks and Their Use by Wildlife in Amazonia
In certain Amazonian regions, 25% of hunting occurs at salt licks, sites rich in natural minerals often near creeks prone to periodic flooding. Here, animals engage in geophagy for mineral supplementation and detoxification what enables local hunter to observe their behaviour while waiting their target. Our study evaluates seasonal salt lick availability and wildlife usage, using interviews and obtained information on 31 vertebrate species across…
Paradoxically striving for food security in the leading food-producing tropical country, Brazil
Growing disparity in global conservation research capacity and its impact on biodiversity conservation
Size and degree of protection of native forest remnants drive the local occupancy of an endangered neotropical primate
Although the species–area relationship is well known, it may interact with and be augmented or cancelled out by other factors, such as local human disturbance. We used data on site occupancy of the Endangered blonde capuchin monkey ( Sapajus flavius ) based primarily on a standardized program of local interviews to model the influence of past human disturbance on the occurrence of this species across remaining forest patches of northeastern Brazi…
Primate conservation: Lessons learned in the last 20 years can guide future efforts
Twenty years ago, we published an assessment of the threats facing primates and with the passing of two decades, we re‐evaluate identified threats, consider emerging pressures, identify exciting new avenues of research, and tackle how to change the system to rapidly advance primate and primate habitat conservation. Habitat destruction and hunting have increased, the danger of looming climate change is clearer, and there are emerging threats such …
Land-sharing logging is more profitable than land sparing in the Brazilian Amazon
Selective logging is pervasive across the tropics and a key driver of forest degradation. Two competing harvest management strategies have been proposed: Land sharing via low-intensity logging throughout a concession; and high-intensity land-sparing logging across a smaller area, protecting part of the concession as primary forest. Empirical research points to land sparing being more optimal for maintaining biodiversity and carbon, especially und…
Co‐management of culturally important species: A tool to promote biodiversity conservation and human well‐being
Co‐management has been advocated as an effective tool to achieve natural resource conservation worldwide. Yet, the potential of co‐management arrangements can fail to be realized when there is insufficient local engagement. In this perspective paper, we argue that co‐management schemes focusing on culturally important species (CIS) can help overcome this issue by engaging local people's interest. To develop this theory, we explore published data …
Habitat determinants of golden‐headed lion tamarin ( Leontopithecus chrysomelas ) occupancy of cacao agroforests: Gloomy conservation prospects for management intensification
Organismal distributions in human‐modified landscapes largely depend on the capacity of any given species to adapt to changes in habitat structure and quality. The golden‐headed lion tamarin (GHLT; Leontopithecus chrysomelas ) is an Endangered primate from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest whose remaining populations occupy heterogeneous landscapes consisting primarily of shade cacao ( Theobroma cacao ) agroforestry, locally known as cabrucas . This …
Socioeconomic Drivers of Hunting Efficiency and Use of Space By Traditional Amazonians
Mapping pervasive selective logging in the south-west Brazilian Amazon 2000–2019
Tropical forests harbour the highest biodiversity on the planet and are essential to human livelihoods and the global economy. However continued loss and degradation of forested landscapes, coupled with a rapidly rising global population, is placing incredible pressure on forests globally. The United Nations has developed the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD +) programme in response to the challenges facing tropi…
Resource co-management as a step towards gender equity in fisheries
Rapidly escalating threats to the biodiversity and ethnocultural capital of Brazilian Indigenous Lands
Economic Impacts of Payments for Environmental Services on Livelihoods of Agro-extractivist Communities in the Brazilian Amazon
Unintended multispecies co-benefits of an Amazonian community-based conservation programme
Anthropogenic drivers of headwater and riparian forest loss and degradation in a highly fragmented southern Amazonian landscape
Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition
Past human influences on Amazonian forest The marks of prehistoric human societies on tropical forests can still be detected today. Levis et al. performed a basin-wide comparison of plant distributions, archaeological sites, and environmental data. Plants domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples are much more likely to be dominant in Amazonian forests than other species. Furthermore, forests close to archaeological sites often have a higher abundanc…
Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals
Terrestrial mammals are experiencing a massive collapse in their population sizes and geographical ranges around the world, but many of the drivers, patterns and consequences of this decline remain poorly understood. Here we provide an analysis showing that bushmeat hunting for mostly food and medicinal products is driving a global crisis whereby 301 terrestrial mammal species are threatened with extinction. Nearly all of these threatened species…
Determinants of spatial behavior of a tropical forest seed predator: The roles of optimal foraging, dietary diversification, and home range defense
Specialized seed predators in tropical forests may avoid seasonal food scarcity and interspecific feeding competition but may need to diversify their daily diet to limit ingestion of any given toxin. Seed predators may, therefore, adopt foraging strategies that favor dietary diversity and resource monitoring, rather than efficient energy intake, as suggested by optimal foraging theory. We tested whether fine-scale space use by a small-group-livin…
Geographic comparison of plant genera used in frugivory among the pitheciids Cacajao , Callicebus , Chiropotes , and Pithecia
Pitheciids are known for their frugivorous diets, but there has been no broad-scale comparison of fruit genera used by these primates that range across five geographic regions in South America. We compiled 31 fruit lists from data collected from 18 species (three Cacajao, six Callicebus, five Chiropotes, and four Pithecia) at 26 study sites in six countries. Together, these lists contained 455 plant genera from 96 families. We predicted that 1) c…
Diet and feeding ecology of gray woolly monkeys (lagothrix lagotricha cana) in Central Amazonia: Comparisons with other Atelines
Hunting in Ancient and Modern Amazonia: Rethinking Sustainability
We use a recently developed computerized modeling technique to explore the long-term impacts of indigenous Amazonian hunting in the past, present, and future. The model redefines sustainability in spatial and temporal terms, a major advance over the static "sustainability indices" currently used to study hunting in tropical forests. We validate the model's projections against actual field data from two sites in contemporary Amazonia and use the m…
Drivers of rural exodus from Amazonian headwaters
Evaluating the use of local ecological knowledge to monitor hunted tropical-forest wildlife over large spatial scales
Parry, L., and C. A. Peres. 2015. Evaluating the use of local ecological knowledge to monitor hunted tropical-forest wildlife over large spatial scales. Ecology and Society 20(3): 15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07601-200315
Rural property size drives patterns of upland and riparian forest retention in a tropical deforestation frontier
Consequences of actor level livelihood heterogeneity for additionality in a tropical forest payment for environmental services programme with an undifferentiated reward structure
Which are the largest New World monkeys
Rapidly escalating threats to the biodiversity and ethnocultural capital of Brazilian Indigenous Lands
Food patch structure and plant resource partitioning in interspecific associations of amazonian tamarins
Habitat Selection and Use of Space by Bald-Faced Sakis (Pithecia irrorata) in Southwestern Amazonia: Lessons from a Multiyear, Multigroup Study
Anthropogenic drivers of headwater and riparian forest loss and degradation in a highly fragmented southern Amazonian landscape
Sampling Effort in Neotropical Primate Diet Studies: Collective Gains and Underlying Geographic and Taxonomic Biases
Unintended multispecies co-benefits of an Amazonian community-based conservation programme
Notes on the ecology of buffy saki monkeys ( Pithecia albicans , Gray 1860): A canopy seed‐predator
Data on the ecology and diet of buffy sakis ( Pithecia albicans ) were obtained during a 20‐month study in an entirely undisturbed terra firme forest in the upper Urucu river, Amazonas, Brazil. Groups of 3–7 sakis found in a 900‐ha study plot used large home ranges (147–204 ha), which overlapped extensively with those of neighboring groups. Similar to other pitheciines, buffy sakis were primarily seed predators, relying heavily on young seeds of …
Primate Responses to Phenological Changes in an Amazonian Terra Firme Forest
The responses of saddleback tamarins Saguinus fuscicollis avilapiresi, moustached tamarins S. mystax pileatus, brown capuchins Cebus apella and gray woolly monkeys Lagothrix lagotricha cana to seasonal changes in plant phenology were examined in undisturbed terra firme forest in the upper Urucu river, Brazilian Amazonia. Primate species fed largely on ripe fruit pulp for most of the year, but shifted to alternative plant resources during the dry …
Diet and feeding ecology of gray woolly monkeys (lagothrix lagotricha cana) in Central Amazonia: Comparisons with other Atelines
Which are the largest New World monkeys
Food patch structure and plant resource partitioning in interspecific associations of amazonian tamarins
Foraging ecology and use of space in wild golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia)
In this paper we describe the use of space and feeding ecology of seven groups of golden lion tamarins observed for a total of 2,164 hr in Poço das Antas Reserve, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Relative to habitat availability in the home ranges of these groups, lion tamarins spent more time than expected in relatively undisturbed swamp forests and less time than expected in more degraded hillside and pasture habitats. Home range area was correlated wit…
Primate conservation in the new millennium: The role of scientists
For nearly three decades, the academic community has clearly recognized that many primate populations are severely threatened by human activities. In 1983, Wolfheim estimated that more than 50% of all primate species faced some form of threat. Over a decade later, the Primate Specialist Group of the Species Survival Commission of the World Conservation Union5 estimated that half of the world's 250 species of primates were of serious conservation …
Primate assemblage structure in amazonian flooded and unflooded forests
There is considerable variation in primate species richness across neotropical forest sites, and the richest assemblages are found in western Amazonia. Forest type is an important determinant of the patterns of platyrrhine primate diversity, abundance, and biomass. Here we present data on the assemblage structure of primates in adjacent unflooded (terra firme) and seasonally inundated (várzea and igapó) forests in the lower Purús region of centra…
Quantifying the biodiversity value of tropical primary, secondary, and plantation forests
Biodiversity loss from deforestation may be partly offset by the expansion of secondary forests and plantation forestry in the tropics. However, our current knowledge of the value of these habitats for biodiversity conservation is limited to very few taxa, and many studies are severely confounded by methodological shortcomings. We examined the conservation value of tropical primary, secondary, and plantation forests for 15 taxonomic groups using …
Associations between primates and other mammals in a central Amazonian forest landscape
Interspecific primate associations in Amazonian flooded and unflooded forests
Rural property size drives patterns of upland and riparian forest retention in a tropical deforestation frontier
Drivers of rural exodus from Amazonian headwaters
Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity
Usefulness of species range polygons for predicting local primate occurrences in southeastern Peru
Species distribution maps are widely used in predicting areas of conservation concern, particularly where species distributions are poorly known. However, the accuracy of range maps for regional/local planning is questionable. We compared published putative geographic range polygons of ten primate species to their actual occupancy at 23 survey sites in southeastern Peru to assess the fine‐scale accuracy of these polygons for regional conservation…
Consequences of actor level livelihood heterogeneity for additionality in a tropical forest payment for environmental services programme with an undifferentiated reward structure
Habitat Selection and Use of Space by Bald-Faced Sakis (Pithecia irrorata) in Southwestern Amazonia: Lessons from a Multiyear, Multigroup Study
Spatial, Temporal, and Economic Constraints to the Commercial Extraction of a Non–timber Forest Product: Copaíba (Copaifera spp.) Oleoresin in Amazonian Reserves
Hunting in Ancient and Modern Amazonia: Rethinking Sustainability
We use a recently developed computerized modeling technique to explore the long-term impacts of indigenous Amazonian hunting in the past, present, and future. The model redefines sustainability in spatial and temporal terms, a major advance over the static "sustainability indices" currently used to study hunting in tropical forests. We validate the model's projections against actual field data from two sites in contemporary Amazonia and use the m…
Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora
Introduction Recent decades have seen a major international effort to inventory tree communities in the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield (Amazonia), but the vast extent and record diversity of these forests have hampered an understanding of basinwide patterns. To overcome this obstacle, we compiled and standardized species-level data on more than half a million trees in 1170 plots sampling all major lowland forest types to explore patterns of commo…
Sampling Effort in Neotropical Primate Diet Studies: Collective Gains and Underlying Geographic and Taxonomic Biases
Predicting primate local extinctions within “real‐world” forest fragments: A pan‐neotropical analysis
Understanding the main drivers of species extinction in human-modified landscapes has gained paramount importance in proposing sound conservation strategies. Primates play a crucial role in maintaining the integrity of forest ecosystem functions and represent the best studied order of tropical terrestrial vertebrates, yet primate species diverge widely in their responses to forest habitat disturbance and fragmentation. Here, we present a robust q…
Primate ecology and evolution in amazonia: A belated age of 21st century exploration
Evaluating the use of local ecological knowledge to monitor hunted tropical-forest wildlife over large spatial scales
Parry, L., and C. A. Peres. 2015. Evaluating the use of local ecological knowledge to monitor hunted tropical-forest wildlife over large spatial scales. Ecology and Society 20(3): 15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07601-200315
Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals
Terrestrial mammals are experiencing a massive collapse in their population sizes and geographical ranges around the world, but many of the drivers, patterns and consequences of this decline remain poorly understood. Here we provide an analysis showing that bushmeat hunting for mostly food and medicinal products is driving a global crisis whereby 301 terrestrial mammal species are threatened with extinction. Nearly all of these threatened species…
Geography (38 works) · Biology (36 works) · Ecology (29 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (22 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (21 works) · Amazon rainforest (20 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (19 works) · Habitat (17 works) · Ecology (14 works) · Environmental Science (14 works)