Mariana Giuliatti Winter
Project: Behavioral ad ecological aspects of the black lion-tamarin (Callitrichidae: Leontopithecus chrysopygus): a literature review
Abstract: The black lion-tamarin (Primates: Leontopithecus chrysopygus) is an endemic species from the São Paulo State living mostly in semidecidual forests. Today, the species is classified as “endangered” by the IUCN, mostly due to the fragmentation of its habitat. It is well-known that primate ecology and behavior can vary according to habitat or landscape features. To implement efficient conservation strategies, it is necessary to improve our knowledge about the ecology and behavior of the species, taking into account local specificities. To achieve that objective, it is necessary to gather all published and unpublished data already collected about the species. In this context, the building of a large dataset about the species is being implemented, together with other Brazilian and foreign researchers; it is called the “Black lion Tamarin Genome Project”. Here, we contributed to the elaboration of this large dataset, focusing on the ecology and behavior of in situ populations with the aim to identify patterns according to the type of landscape (continuous forest, compact fragment and riparian forest) and the region (Pontal do Paranapanema, Middle Paranapanema and Lower Paranapanema). We gathered the largest number of data obtained until today about the species, highlighting the topics and areas most studied as well as the main differences of behavioral and ecological aspects between habitats. This work enabled identifying the areas of occurrence and research topics that needed more efforts to improve our knowledge about the species and therefore to take more suitable conservation measures.
Contact: magwinter@gmail.com
