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José Maria Silva
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Biodiversity
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Environmental Sciences
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José Maria Cardoso da Silva

PeerJ Editor & Author

Summary

Professor of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of Miami. Director (2001-2003), Vice-President (2003-2010), and Executive Vice-President (2010-2014), Conservation International. Associate Professor, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Graduate Advisor in three Brazilian Universities: Universidade Federal do Pará, Universidade Federal da Paraíba and Universidade Federal do Amapá. Past President, Brazilian Ornithological Society. Fellow of the American Ornithologist’s Union.

Biogeography Conservation Biology Legal Issues Natural Resource Management Science Policy

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PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

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University of Miami

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Professor

University of Miami
August 2015
Geography and Sustainable Development

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 4
  • Edited 39
January 15, 2024
The distribution and conservation of areas with microendemic species in a biodiversity hotspot: a multi-taxa approach
Helder F. P. de Araujo, Célia C. C. Machado, José Maria Cardoso da Silva
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16779 PubMed 38239293
December 1, 2021
Composition, richness and nestedness of gallery forest bird assemblages in an Amazonian savanna landscape: lessons for conservation
Joandro Pandilha, José Júlio de Toledo, Luis Cláudio Fernandes Barbosa, William Douglas Carvalho, Jackson Cleiton de Sousa, José Maria Cardoso da Silva
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12529 PubMed 34917422
July 22, 2019
Extinction risk of narrowly distributed species of seed plants in Brazil due to habitat loss and climate change
José Maria Cardoso da Silva, Alessandro Rapini, Luis Cláudio F. Barbosa, Roger R. Torres
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7333 PubMed 31367486
October 10, 2017
Illegal use of natural resources in federal protected areas of the Brazilian Amazon
Érico E. Kauano, Jose M.C. Silva, Fernanda Michalski
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3902 PubMed 29038758

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April 30, 2024
Ecological niche divergence or ecological niche partitioning in a widespread Neotropical bird lineage
Jacob C. Cooper
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17345 PubMed 38708346
December 14, 2022
Bird diversity-environment relationships in urban parks and cemeteries of the Neotropics during breeding and non-breeding seasons
Lucas M. Leveau, Mariana Lucia Bocelli, Sergio Gabriel Quesada-Acuña, César González-Lagos, Pablo Gutiérrez Tapia, Gabriela Franzoi Dri, Carlos A. Delgado-V., Álvaro Garitano-Zavala, Jackeline Campos, Yanina Benedetti, Rubén Ortega-Álvarez, Antonio Isain Contreras Rodríguez, Daniela Souza López, Carla Suertegaray Fontana, Thaiane Weinert da Silva, Sarah Sandri Zalewski Vargas, María Cecília Barbosa Toledo, Juan Andres Sarquis, Alejandro Giraudo, Ada Lilian Echevarria, María Elisa Fanjul, Maria Valeria Martínez, Josefina Haedo, Luis Gonzalo Cano Sanz, Yuri Peña, Viviana Fernandez, Verónica Marinero, Vinícius Abilhoa, Rafael Amorin, Juan Fernando Escobar Ibáñez, María Dolores Juri, Sergio Camín, Luis Marone, Augusto João Piratelli, Alexandre Gabriel Franchin, Larissa Crispim, Federico Morelli
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14496
December 14, 2022
EcoCountHelper: an R package and analytical pipeline for the analysis of ecological count data using GLMMs, and a case study of bats in Grand Teton National Park
Hunter J. Cole, Dylan GE Gomes, Jesse R. Barber
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14509 PubMed 36536627
December 12, 2022
Habitat loss estimation for assessing terrestrial mammalian species extinction risk: an open data framework
Mariella Butti, Luciana Pacca, Paloma Santos, André C. Alonso, Gerson Buss, Gabriela Ludwig, Leandro Jerusalinsky, Amely B. Martins
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14289 PubMed 36530404
December 12, 2022
Composition of terrestrial mammal assemblages and their habitat use in unflooded and flooded blackwater forests in the Central Amazon
André L. S. Gonçalves, Tadeu G. de Oliveira, Alexander R. Arévalo-Sandi, Lucian V. Canto, Tsuneaki Yabe, Wilson R. Spironello
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14374 PubMed 36530392
December 22, 2021
An estimate of the area of occupancy and population size of Brachycephalus tridactylus (Anura: Brachycephalidae) to reassess its conservation status, with a proposal for conservation measures
Marcos R. Bornschein, Júnior Nadaline, Luiz Fernando Ribeiro, Giovanna Sandretti-Silva, Maria Fernanda Ferreira Rivas, Bruno de Morais Guerra, Larissa Teixeira
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12687 PubMed 35036161
August 31, 2021
Exploring private land conservation non-adopters’ attendance at outreach events in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA
Daniel J. Read, Alexandra Carroll, Lisa A. Wainger
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11959 PubMed 34540362
June 4, 2021
Spondias mombin as a reservoir of fruit fly parasitoid populations in the Eastern Amazon: an undervalued ecosystem service
Maria do Socorro Miranda de Sousa, Ezequiel de Deus, Adilson Lopes Lima, Cristiane Ramos de Jesus, Salustiano Vilar da Costa Neto, Lailson do Nascimento Lemos, Ana Claudia Mendes Malhado, Richard J. Ladle, Ricardo Adaime
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11530 PubMed 34141484
February 11, 2021
Using natural history collections to investigate changes in pangolin (Pholidota: Manidae) geographic ranges through time
Emily Buckingham, Jake Curry, Charles Emogor, Louise Tomsett, Natalie Cooper
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10843 PubMed 33614289
February 10, 2021
Genome size versus geographic range size in birds
Beata Grzywacz, Piotr Skórka
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10868 PubMed 33614292
September 23, 2020
A comparison of common metrics used to quantify the effectiveness of conservation interventions
Igor Khorozyan
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9873 PubMed 33024627
March 26, 2020
The impact of leopards (Panthera pardus) on livestock losses and human injuries in a human-use landscape in Maharashtra, India
Vidya Athreya, Kavita Isvaran, Morten Odden, John D.C. Linnell, Aritra Kshettry, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Ullas K. Karanth
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8405 PubMed 32257629
January 28, 2020
The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education
Freek T. Bakker, Alexandre Antonelli, Julia A. Clarke, Joseph A. Cook, Scott V. Edwards, Per G.P. Ericson, Søren Faurby, Nuno Ferrand, Magnus Gelang, Rosemary G. Gillespie, Martin Irestedt, Kennet Lundin, Ellen Larsson, Pável Matos-Maraví, Johannes Müller, Ted von Proschwitz, George K. Roderick, Alexander Schliep, Niklas Wahlberg, John Wiedenhoeft, Mari Källersjö
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8225 PubMed 32025365
January 2, 2020
Questioning the proverb ‘more haste, less speed’: classic versus metabarcoding approaches for the diet study of a remote island endemic gecko
Vanessa Gil, Catarina J. Pinho, Carlos A.S. Aguiar, Carolina Jardim, Rui Rebelo, Raquel Vasconcelos
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8084 PubMed 31915567
September 13, 2019
Notes on vocalizations of Brazilian amphibians IV: advertisement calls of 20 Atlantic Forest frog species
Lucas Rodriguez Forti, Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad, Felipe Leite, Leandro de Oliveira Drummond, Clodoaldo de Assis, Lucas Batista Crivellari, Caio Marinho Mello, Paulo Christiano Anchietta Garcia, Camila Zornosa-Torres, Luís Felipe Toledo
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7612 PubMed 31565563
July 25, 2019
The Munduruku marmoset: a new monkey species from southern Amazonia
Rodrigo Costa-Araújo, Fabiano R. de Melo, Gustavo Rodrigues Canale, Sandra M. Hernández-Rangel, Mariluce Rezende Messias, Rogério Vieira Rossi, Felipe E. Silva, Maria Nazareth Ferreira da Silva, Stephen D. Nash, Jean P. Boubli, Izeni Pires Farias, Tomas Hrbek
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7019 PubMed 31380146
June 17, 2019
Expanding global commodities trade and consumption place the world’s primates at risk of extinction
Alejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber, Abhishek Chaudhary
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7068
April 19, 2019
Rapid ecological specialization despite constant population sizes
Andrinajoro R. Rakotoarivelo, Paul O’Donoghue, Michael W. Bruford, Yoshan Moodley
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6476 PubMed 31041147
April 19, 2019
The newly described Araguaian river dolphins, Inia araguaiaensis (Cetartiodactyla, Iniidae), produce a diverse repertoire of acoustic signals
Gabriel Melo-Santos, Angélica Lúcia Figueiredo Rodrigues, Rodrigo Hipólito Tardin, Israel de Sá Maciel, Miriam Marmontel, Maria Luisa Da Silva, Laura Johanna May-Collado
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6670 PubMed 31041149
April 17, 2019
Boto (Inia geoffrensis—Cetacea: Iniidae) aggregations in two provisioning sites in the lower Negro River—Amazonas, Brazil: are they related?
Waleska Gravena, Tomas Hrbek, Vera Maria Ferreira da Silva, Izeni Pires Farias
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6692 PubMed 31024759
March 15, 2019
Vocal recognition of a nest-predator in black grouse
Richard Policht, Vlastimil Hart, Denis Goncharov, Peter Surový, Vladimír Hanzal, Jaroslav Červený, Hynek Burda
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6533 PubMed 30891367
February 13, 2019
Balancing plant conservation and agricultural production in the Ecuadorian Dry Inter-Andean Valleys
Catalina Quintana, Marco Girardello, Henrik Balslev
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6207 PubMed 30783560
February 4, 2019
Recent dating of extinct Atlantic gray whale fossils, (Eschrichtius robustus), Georgia Bight and Florida, western Atlantic Ocean
Ervan G. Garrison, Gary S. Morgan, Krista McGrath, Camilla Speller, Alexander Cherkinsky
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6381 PubMed 30746309
January 11, 2019
Anuran diversity indicates that Caatinga relictual Neotropical forests are more related to the Atlantic Forest than to the Amazon
Deborah P. Castro, João Fabrício M. Rodrigues, Maria Juliana Borges-Leite, Daniel Cassiano Lima, Diva Maria Borges-Nojosa
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6208 PubMed 30647999
December 10, 2018
The recent expansion of Fox Sparrow (Passerella iliaca iliaca) breeding range into the northeastern United States
John D. Lloyd
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6087 PubMed 30581676
October 19, 2018
Genetic and morphometric divergence in the Garnet-Throated Hummingbird Lamprolaima rhami (Aves: Trochilidae)
Luz E. Zamudio-Beltrán, Blanca E. Hernández-Baños
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5733 PubMed 30364579
September 26, 2018
Assessing bird avoidance of high-contrast lights using a choice test approach: implications for reducing human-induced avian mortality
Benjamin Goller, Bradley F. Blackwell, Travis L. DeVault, Patrice E. Baumhardt, Esteban Fernández-Juricic
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5404 PubMed 30280013
September 24, 2018
Different environmental gradients affect different measures of snake β-diversity in the Amazon rainforests
Rafael de Fraga, Miquéias Ferrão, Adam J. Stow, William E. Magnusson, Albertina P. Lima
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5628 PubMed 30280020
August 27, 2018
Evolution of pollination by frugivorous birds in Neotropical Myrtaceae
María Gabriela Nadra, Norberto Pedro Giannini, Juan Manuel Acosta, Lone Aagesen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5426 PubMed 30186677
July 20, 2018
Shark and ray diversity in the Tropical America (Neotropics)—an examination of environmental and historical factors affecting diversity
Jorge Domingo Carrillo-Briceño, Juan D. Carrillo, Orangel Antonio Aguilera, Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5313 PubMed 30042900
July 19, 2018
Dawn chorus interpretation differs when using songs or calls: the Dupont’s Lark Chersophilus duponti case
Cristian Pérez-Granados, Tomasz S. Osiejuk, Germán M. López-Iborra
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5241 PubMed 30038868
July 12, 2018
Protected areas’ effectiveness under climate change: a latitudinal distribution projection of an endangered mountain ungulate along the Andes Range
Carlos Riquelme, Sergio A. Estay, Rodrigo López, Hernán Pastore, Mauricio Soto-Gamboa, Paulo Corti
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5222 PubMed 30013852
July 10, 2018
Avian community characteristics and demographics reveal how conservation value of regenerating tropical dry forest changes with forest age
Steven C. Latta, Nathan L. Brouwer, Danilo A. Mejía, Maria M. Paulino
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5217 PubMed 30018861
May 16, 2018
A new species of Pseudopaludicola (Anura, Leiuperinae) from Espírito Santo, Brazil
Dario E. Cardozo, Diego Baldo, Nadya Pupin, João Luiz Gasparini, Célio F. Baptista Haddad
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4766 PubMed 29785347
May 16, 2018
Coarse- and fine-scale patterns of distribution and habitat selection places an Amazonian floodplain curassow in double jeopardy
Gabriel A. Leite, Izeni P. Farias, André L. S. Gonçalves, Joseph E. Hawes, Carlos A. Peres
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4617 PubMed 29785338
April 11, 2018
Present and future ecological niche modeling of garter snake species from the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
Andrea González-Fernández, Javier Manjarrez, Uri García-Vázquez, Maristella D’Addario, Armando Sunny
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4618 PubMed 29666767
March 29, 2018
Determining the numbers of a landscape architect species (Tapirus terrestris), using footprints
Danielle O. Moreira, Sky K. Alibhai, Zoe C. Jewell, Cristina J. da Cunha, Jardel B. Seibert, Andressa Gatti
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4591 PubMed 29610711
March 28, 2018
Limb-use by foraging marine turtles, an evolutionary perspective
Jessica A. Fujii, Don McLeish, Andrew J. Brooks, John Gaskell, Kyle S. Van Houtan
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4565 PubMed 29610708
January 9, 2018
Annual and spatial variation in composition and activity of terrestrial mammals on two replicate plots in lowland forest of eastern Ecuador
John G. Blake, Bette A. Loiselle
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4241 PubMed 29333349