José Fragoso will be presenting a plenary lecture at the “X Congreso Internacional de Manejo de Fauna Silvestre en la Amazonía y América Latina” in Salta, Argentina on May 17, 2012.
The title of the talk is “Interacciones complejas entre biodiversidad y las tradiciones culturales de los pueblos indígenas amazónicos”.
Levi T., Silvius K.M., Oliveira L.F.B., Cummings A.R. and Fragoso J.M.V. 2013. Competition and facilitation in the Capuchin-Squirrel Monkey Relationship. Biotropica, 45:636-643.
Note: the above paper was highlighted as an “editor’s choice” article by Biotropica: http://biotropica.org/september-2013-editors-choice/
View complete article: Continue reading “Taal Levi, Kirsten Silvius, L. Flamarion de Oliveira and José Fragoso paper in Biotropica”
José M.V. Fragoso presented a lecture entitled “Interações Complexas entre a Biodiversidade e Culturas Indígenas” at the “Centro de Estudos Ameríndio” of the Univesidade do Sao Paulo (USP) on March 19, 2012.
A video of the lecture (in Portuguese) can be seen at https://vimeo.com/40530645
A manuscript by Jeff Luzar, Kirsten Silvius and José Fragoso entitled “Church Affiliation and Meat Taboos in Indigenous Communities of the Amazon”, was accepted for publication with revisions by the journal “Human Ecology” on March 19, 2012. The paper examines how meat taboos held by indigenous peoples are influenced by a number of different Christian churches.
Dr. José Fragoso presented results from his research integrating indigenous communities into biodiversity monitoring at the Chico Mendes Institute of Conservation and Biodiversity (ICMBio) in Brasilia, Brazil on February 10, 2012. Click here for an overview in portuguese.
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