Cultural viability of reintroducing the ecologically extinct Alagoas Curassow (Pauxi mitu Linnaeus, 1766) to Northeast Brazil

Gama, Gabriela M.; Malhado, Ana C. M.; Bragagnolo, Chiara; Correia, Ricardo A.; Ladle, Richard J.

doi:10.1016/j.jnc.2015.10.005

“…For example, Xu and colleagues showed that perceptions towards wolves tend to be negative in Tibet, despite generally positive views about nature conservation in Tibetan society ( Xu, Yang & Dou, 2015 ). Even when a species has cultural visibility and is positively perceived, other deeply ingrained cultural practices such as hunting may undermine its conservation ( Gama et al, 2016 ). These examples clearly illustrate some of the implications that cultural perceptions can have on the success of conservation policies and actions.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Familiarity breeds content: assessing bird species popularity with culturomics

Correia

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Jepson

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Malhado

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et al. 2016

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Understanding public perceptions of biodiversity is essential to ensure continued support for conservation efforts. Despite this, insights remain scarce at broader spatial scales, mostly due to a lack of adequate methods for their assessment. The emergence of new technologies with global reach and high levels of participation provide exciting new opportunities to study the public visibility of biodiversity and the factors that drive it. Here, we use a measure of internet saliency to assess the national and international visibility of species within four taxa of Brazilian birds (toucans, hummingbirds, parrots and woodpeckers), and evaluate how much of this visibility can be explained by factors associated with familiarity, aesthetic appeal and conservation interest. Our results strongly indicate that familiarity (human population within the range of a species) is the most important factor driving internet saliency within Brazil, while aesthetic appeal (body size) best explains variation in international saliency. Endemism and conservation status of a species had small, but often negative, effects on either metric of internet saliency. While further studies are needed to evaluate the relationship between internet content and the cultural visibility of different species, our results strongly indicate that internet saliency can be considered as a broad proxy of cultural interest.

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“…Apa and Wiechman 2016), and reintroduction projects (e.g. Baruch-Mordo et al 2013;Gama et al 2016). Almost all these articles suggested that more actions should be carried out to maintain the integrity and continuity of habitats (e.g.…”

Section: Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Almost all these articles suggested that more actions should be carried out to maintain the integrity and continuity of habitats (e.g. Bro et al 2004), and they believed that those actions could contribute to creating favorable living conditions for Galliformes (Gama et al 2016). Unfortunately, a number of articles also showed that many species were not well protected because of lacking effective local managements and reasonable financial provision (Fuller and Garson 2000;Baruch-Mordo et al 2013) or the effective conservation techniques (e.g.…”

Section: Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This study found that the number of the articles on genetic studies was more than that on the species conservation, but most of them having provided limited suggestions or guidelines for conservation. Therefore, interdisciplinary and synthetic approaches of molecular ecology and any other fields should be integrated to promote the development of new knowledge and techniques, so as to fit the present and future needs of conservation (Gama et al 2016).…”

Section: Galliformes Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Research advances of Galliformes since 1990 and future prospects

Tian

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Xu

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Li

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Background: Galliformes are widely distributed throughout the world and economically important to humans as domesticated animals or gamebirds. They are at a unique position for advancing knowledge and techniques of wildlife conservation as the barometer of the status of applied ecology. Populations of many galliform species have declined mainly due to habitat loss and over-hunting. An assessment of knowledge of Galliformes could help to provide guidelines for future research and conservation strategies. Methods: Using the Web of Science search engine, we conducted a literature review of galliform-related articles published from 1990 to 2016. We used the "research area" option to filter articles focused on the zoology, environmental sciences ecology, biodiversity conservation, forestry, behavioral sciences, reproductive biology, biochemistry and molecular biology, cell biology, genetics and heredity, evolutionary biology, physiology and developmental biology. We then checked duplication based on the title, abstract and full text. In addition, we examined the reference lists of selected studies to include the publications that were missed by above searching. Results: We retained 1874 articles related to the Galliformes from the initial 243,128 publications that were found. About 91.4% focused on one or two species, and 85.0% were conducted within a short duration, typically 1-2 years. The majority of the articles concentrated on macroscopic ecology (55.5%), mainly focusing on habitat selection or habitat use. With recent advances of molecular biology, the studies of taxonomy and phylogenetics rose quickly in last two decades. The study of physiology and biochemistry was no longer limited to simple description but expanded to the mechanisms of phenotype and micro-evolutionary potential. An additional area receiving increasing attention is the conservation of Galliformes, with the assessment of the conservation status and conservation management effectiveness of Galliformes (e.g. species diversity and genetic diversity) becoming the focus. Conclusions: The studies on Galliformes have made great achievements since 1990, but there are still gaps, particularly in macroscopic ecology, molecular genetics, and conservation. There is an urgent need to enhance long-term monitoring and analysis of population dynamics, and applying different disciplines to galliform conservation. Moreover, life history information of many galliform species is still lacking, which has hindered conservation efforts and effectiveness. In addition, multidiscipline studies and new technologies are not common for galliform studies, and should be encouraged.

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“…For example, Xu and colleagues showed that perceptions towards wolves tend to be negative in Tibet, despite generally positive views about nature conservation in Tibetan society (Xu et al 2015). Even when a species has cultural visibility and is positively perceived, other deeply ingrained cultural practices such as hunting may undermine its conservation (Gama et al 2016). These examples clearly illustrate some of the implications that cultural perceptions can have on the success of conservation policies and actions.…”

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Understanding public perceptions of biodiversity is essential to ensure continued support for conservation efforts. Despite this, insights remain scarce at broader spatial scales, mostly due to a lack of adequate methods for their assessment. The emergence of new technologies with global reach and high levels of participation provide exciting new opportunities to study the public visibility of biodiversity and the factors that drive it. Here, we use a measure of internet saliency to assess the national and international visibility of species within four taxa of Brazilian birds (toucans, hummingbirds, parrots and woodpeckers), and evaluate how much of this visibility can be explained by factors associated with familiarity, aesthetic appeal and conservation interest. Our results strongly indicate that familiarity (human population within the range of a species) is the most important factor driving internet saliency within Brazil, while aesthetic appeal (body size) best explains variation in international saliency. Endemism and conservation status of a species had small, but often negative, effects on either metric of internet saliency. While further studies are needed to evaluate the relationship between internet content and the cultural visibility of different species, our results strongly indicate that internet saliency can be considered as a broad proxy of cultural interest.

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Cultural viability of reintroducing the ecologically extinct Alagoas Curassow (Pauxi mitu Linnaeus, 1766) to Northeast Brazil

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Familiarity breeds content: assessing bird species popularity with culturomics

Familiarity breeds content: assessing bird species popularity with culturomics

Research advances of Galliformes since 1990 and future prospects

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