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Mamíferos não-voadores do campus "Luiz de Queiroz", Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brasil

Non-volant mammals of campus "Luiz de Queiroz", University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil

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The remaining portion of the Atlantic Forest within the State of Sao Paulo is highly fragmented and most of the remainders are wrapped up in an essentially agricultural mosaic. This study aims at the local surveying of non-volant mammals, including their distribution and relative abundance within the human-altered environments of campus "Luiz de Queiroz", University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo State, Brazil, an urbanized area bordered by two highways and the Piracicaba River. The landscape of the study area is characterized by a mosaic of small forest fragments surrounded by pastures, agriculture, and planted forests. Small mammals were captured from February to October, 2001, with an effort of 7056 day-traps, sampling the most representative environments of the campus: planted Eucalyptus (L'Héritier) and Pinus (Shaw) forests, native forest fragment, meadow, rubber tree (Hevea sp.) plantation, agriculture and pasture area. Occurrence of medium and large frame mammals was recorded daily (morning and afternoon) from November of 2000 to October of 2001 along a trail set up to merge the studied environments. Sixteen species of non-volant mammals were recorded, ten of medium or big body-size, and six of small body-size. Capybara (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris (Linnaeus, 1766)) and coati (Nasua nasua (Linnaeus, 1766)) were the most abundant species.

Mammals; forest; agricultural mosaic; landscapes


Mammals; forest; agricultural mosaic; landscapes

Mamíferos não-voadores do campus "Luiz de Queiroz", Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brasil

Non-volant mammals of campus "Luiz de Queiroz", University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil

Carla Gheler-CostaI; Luciano M. VerdadeI; Álvaro F. de AlmeidaII

ILaboratório de Ecologia Animal, ESALQ, Universidade de São Paulo. Caixa Postal 09, 13418-900 Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brasil. E-mail: lmv@esalq.usp.br

IIDepartamento de Ciências Florestais, ESALQ, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 09, 13418-900 Piracicaba, Brasil

ABSTRACT

The remaining portion of the Atlantic Forest within the State of Sao Paulo is highly fragmented and most of the remainders are wrapped up in an essentially agricultural mosaic. This study aims at the local surveying of non-volant mammals, including their distribution and relative abundance within the human-altered environments of campus "Luiz de Queiroz", University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo State, Brazil, an urbanized area bordered by two highways and the Piracicaba River. The landscape of the study area is characterized by a mosaic of small forest fragments surrounded by pastures, agriculture, and planted forests. Small mammals were captured from February to October, 2001, with an effort of 7056 day-traps, sampling the most representative environments of the campus: planted Eucalyptus (L'Héritier) and Pinus (Shaw) forests, native forest fragment, meadow, rubber tree (Hevea sp.) plantation, agriculture and pasture area. Occurrence of medium and large frame mammals was recorded daily (morning and afternoon) from November of 2000 to October of 2001 along a trail set up to merge the studied environments. Sixteen species of non-volant mammals were recorded, ten of medium or big body-size, and six of small body-size. Capybara (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris (Linnaeus, 1766)) and coati (Nasua nasua (Linnaeus, 1766)) were the most abundant species.

Key words: Mammals, forest, agricultural mosaic, landscapes

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Recebido em 18.VII.2002; aceito em 03.XII.2002.

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Datas de Publicação

  • Publicação nesta coleção
    03 Jun 2009
  • Data do Fascículo
    Dez 2002

Histórico

  • Aceito
    03 Dez 2002
  • Recebido
    18 Jul 2002
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