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Published October 20, 2021 | Version v1
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Medium-sized and large mammals of the Floresta da Cicuta Area of Relevant Ecological Interest, a protected area in southeastern Brazil

Creators

  • 1. Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, Volta Redonda, Brazil
  • 2. Consórcio Centro de Educação Superior à Distância do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Polo Prof. Darcy Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Volta Redonda, Brazil
  • 3. Independent researcher, Ubatuba, Brazil
  • 4. Programa de Pós-graduação em Tecnologia Ambiental, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Volta Redonda, Brazil
  • 5. Independent researcher, Volta Redonda, Brazil
  • 6. Programa de Pós-graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação da Natureza, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
  • 7. Programa de Pós-graduação em Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brazil

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The Atlantic Forest is one of the most biodiverse biomes in the world and has been severely degraded and fragmented, with the extirpation of most medium-sized and large vertebrates from the forest remnants. Here we present the results of a survey of medium-sized and large mammals in an area of protected seasonal semideciduous forest, the Floresta da Cicuta Area of Relevant Ecological Interest (ARIE-FC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, part the Atlantic Forest biome. We used camera traps (2,257 camera days) and direct observations over a 23-month period. We recorded 19 species (including two domestic species), seven of which are classified as at-risk, such as Leopardus guttulus (Hensel, 1872), Sylvilagus tapetillus Thomas, 1913, Alouatta clamitans Cabrera, 1940, and Chrysocyon brachyurus (Illiger, 1815). A diverse terrestrial mammal assemblage in the ARIE-FC reinforces the importance of small forest fragments for the conservation of biodiversity in human-modified landscapes of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.

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