A new record for Melanophryniscus moreirae (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920) (Amphibia, Anura, Bufonidae) in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Ortiz, Flora Roncolatto; Menezes, Frederico de Alcântara; Abegg, Arthur Diesel; Landroz, Emmanuel Michel Jacques; Feio, Renato Neves

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“…Endêmica do Brasil: Sim A espécie é endêmica do Brasil, possui distribuição conhecida somente para Serra da Mantiqueira, em áreas acima de 2.000 m de altitude, nos municípios de Alagoa e Baependi no estado de Minas Gerais (Weber et al, 2007;Ortiz et al, 2017), município de Queluz no estado de São Paulo (Marques et al, 2006), e no município de Resende no estado do Rio de Janeiro (Carvajalino-Fernandez et al, 2013). A área de extensão de ocorrência calculada por meio do mínimo polígono convexo a partir dos pontos de registro é de 391 km².…”

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Rogério Pereira Bastos,

Marcio Roberto Martins,

Yeda Soares de Lucena Bataus

et al. 2023

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Melanophryniscus moreirae é endêmica do Brasil, do bioma Mata Atlântica da região Sudeste do país; possui poucos registros de ocorrência na Serra da Mantiqueira em locais acima de 2.000 m de altitude, nos estados de Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo. Embora sua extensão de ocorrência calculada seja de 391 km2, trata-se de região preservada, a espécie é abundante nas localidades onde ocorre e é possível que possa ocorrer em outras localidades serranas da região ainda não amostradas. Não há evidências de ameaças que possam colocar a espécie em risco de extinção. Além disso, a espécie ocorre em unidades de conservação, inclusive de proteção integral. Por essas razões, Melanophryniscus moreirae foi avaliada como Menos Preocupante (LC).

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Rogério Pereira Bastos,

Marcio Roberto Martins,

Yeda Soares de Lucena Bataus

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“…This is perhaps unsurprising given that these areas show similar structural characteristics to the grasslands of the Brazilian savannah, where the maned wolf evolved (Coelho et al, 2008;Jácomo et al, 2009;Queirolo et al, 2011). This ecosystem is restricted to higher elevations of the Atlantic forest in south-eastern and southern Brazil, and has many endemic and endangered plant and animal species (Martinelli, 1996;Safford, 1999;Aximoff, 2011;Carvalho et al, 2015;Ortiz et al, 2017;Aximoff et al, 2018). Although Rosa et al (2015) detected maned wolf faeces in semi-deciduous forests in the county of Itamonte, our model indicated it is common for species to avoid the forested areas, especially those with a dense understory which makes movement more difficult for maned wolves (Childs-Sanford, 2005;Coelho et al, 2008;Massara et al, 2012).…”

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Unravelling the drivers of maned wolf activity along an elevational gradient in the Atlantic Forest, south-eastern Brazil

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Carvalho²,

Romero

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The maned wolf, the largest canid in South America, was originally distributed in areas with open natural vegetation in the Cerrado biome, Chaco and Pampas regions. The dynamics of its distribution are however in flux, with populations declining at the southern limit of its distribution, and areas of apparent range expansion in Brazil. Although the maned wolf's overall distribution is well documented, little is known about its smallest-scale landscape use. Here we used a novel approach, characterising "favourable territories" for maned wolves using presence data and information on daily movement capacity. In this way, we used favourability distribution models to relate local landscape use by maned wolves to environmental drivers in the Serra da Mantiqueira, part of the core of the species distribution. Our results showed that the favourablity of territories for maned wolf activity increases with altitude, and with the proportion of coverage of upper montane vegetation refuges and of open habitats such as agricultural fields. Our results also show that the configuration of the environment with respect to topography is an important driver of the favourability of the landscape for maned wolf activity. Finally, we identified some human-wildlife conflicts in the surroundings of the protected area which could increase with increasing maned wolf populations. In conclusion, our results support the importance of maintaining the integrity of high-altitude open areas in the conservation of maned wolf habitat and provide useful data for maned wolf management at the core of its global current distribution. We highlight that this is the first study to use fuzzy logic tools at the local scale to analyze the favourability of territories for maned wolf activity in a highly favourable region along an elevational gradient.

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A new record for Melanophryniscus moreirae (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920) (Amphibia, Anura, Bufonidae) in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Cited by 2 publications

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Unravelling the drivers of maned wolf activity along an elevational gradient in the Atlantic Forest, south-eastern Brazil

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