Landscapes

Identifying Drivers of Primate Occupancy Patterns in a Fragmented Forest Landscape of Garo Hills, India, for Efficient Conservation Planning

The aim of the project is to determine the influence of factors of conservation relevance, such as fragment size, shape, isolation and surrounding matrix on primate occupancy in community-owned forest fragments.

Effect of Land Use on Biodiversity Conservation: Generating Management Tools for Restoration of Desertified Arid Lands

The objective is to investigate the way biodiversity respond to changes on land use to propose management tools in order to improve local economy by protecting biodiversity.

Distribution, Abundance and Conservation of Small Mammalian Carnivores in a Threatened Dry Forest Landscape of Thailand

The project aims to quantify through the use of camera trapping and radio telemetry how small mammalian carnivores use a frequently burned tropical dry forest landscape to inform management actions.

Watershed Conservation in Cuba: Bio-monitoring, Training and Environmental Education

Aims are to assess watershed’s integrity, to characterize threats of conservation on Yara watershed, to use environmental education to increase the knowledge of people living in the watersheds about the watershed’s conservation.

Consumer Control and Vegetation Response: The Fire-Vegetation-Grazing Dynamics in the Western Himalayan Landscape

This study aims at a better understanding of the fire-vegetation-grazing dynamics in the Western Himalayan landscape which could help in rationalizing the existing management practices.

Ecological Consequences of Mega-Hydroelectric Dams on Vertebrate Assemblages in Amazonian Forests.

The aim of the project is to examine the community-wide effects of forest fragmentation on Amazonian forest vertebrates in a major hydroelectric dam.

Fish Species Richness and Community Composition Across Peat Swamp Landscapes in Southeast Asia

This project aims to elucidate the impact of plantation agriculture on the blackwater fishes of Southeast Asia, as well as, understand how environmental factors structure fish communities across peat swamp landscapes in Southeast Asia.

Monitoring and Evaluation of Underpasses Located on the SP-225 in the City of Brotas

The aim of the project is to monitor, to evaluate, and to test the efficiency of different types of underpasses to medium and large size mammals and finally choose the best type of underpasses to be implanted in highways located in Cerrado and Atlantic Forest biomes.

Tugay Forests in Tajikistan: The Last Remainders of Globally Endangered Ecosystem

The aim of the project is to describe the modern stage of vertebrate animal community of riverbanks forests on protected and unprotected areas of South Tajikistan.

Conserving Land Snails in Sri Lanka's Fragmented Tropical Forest Landscapes

The project focuses on the diversity, distribution and conservation of Sri Lankan land snails in severely deforested landscapes.