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Reversing defaunation or increasing ecological degradation? Invasion ecology of feral pigs Sus scrofa in a defaunated landscape

Grant number: 15/18381-6
Support Opportunities:Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct)
Start date until: October 01, 2015
End date until: January 31, 2019
Field of knowledge:Biological Sciences - Ecology
Principal Investigator:Mauro Galetti Rodrigues
Grantee:Felipe Pedrosa Chagas
Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
Associated research grant:14/01986-0 - Ecological consequences of defaunation in the Atlantic Rainforest, AP.TEM
Associated scholarship(s):16/15436-7 - Isotope ecology of neotropical ungulates in face of feral pig invasion, BE.EP.DD

Abstract

Invasion of alien species is a concern to human well-being and a threat to biodiversity. Many thriving biological invasions causes economic damages and drives disruptions of ecosystem functioning. Along with that, defaunation process also endanger entire communities, disrupting species interactions, particularly on plant-animal interactions. In neotropical forests, tapir and peccaries play important role, regulating ecosystem functions such as herbivory, trampling of seedlings and saplings, predation and dispersal of seeds. However, they are threatened or locally extinct, jeopardizing the structure and the regeneration of plant communities. On the other hand, an alien species, the feral pig Sus scrofa is quickly occupying these defaunated landscapes. Nevertheless, the consequences of feral pigs to seed dispersal, seed predation, herbivory and trampling in the Atlantic Forest ecosystems are unknown. The aim of this Ph.D. proposal is to examine how feral pigs affect such ecological functions and process, as well estimate the differences between foraging ecology of tapir (Tapirus terrestris), peccaries (Tayassu pecari and Pecari tajacu) and the invasive, to provide tangible estimation of its impacts and of its role on ecosystems. (AU)

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Scientific publications (9)
(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)
BECA, GABRIELLE; VANCINE, MAURICIO H.; CARVALHO, CAROLINA S.; PEDROSA, FELIPE; ALVES, RAFAEL SOUZA C.; BUSCARIOL, DAIANE; PERES, CARLOS A.; RIBEIRO, MILTON CEZAR; GALETTI, MAURO. High mammal species turnover in forest patches immersed in biofuel plantations. Biological Conservation, v. 210, n. A, p. 352-359, . (15/18381-6, 14/01986-0, 14/23095-0, 13/50421-2, 14/01029-5)
BRADHAM, JENNIFER; JORGE, MARIA LUISA S. P.; PEDROSA, FELIPE; KEUROGHLIAN, ALEXINE; COSTA, VLADIMIR ELIODORO; BERCE, WILLIAM; GALETTI, MAURO. Spatial isotopic dietary plasticity of a Neotropical forest ungulate: the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari). JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, v. 100, n. 2, p. 464-474, . (15/22844-1, 14/50434-0, 16/15436-7, 15/18381-6, 14/01986-0)
NAGY-REIS, MARIANA; OSHIMA, JULIA EMI DE FARIA; KANDA, CLAUDIA ZUKERAN; PALMEIRA, FRANCESCA BELEM LOPES; DE MELO, FABIANO RODRIGUES; MORATO, RONALDO GONCALVES; BONJORNE, LILIAN; MAGIOLI, MARCELO; LEUCHTENBERGER, CAROLINE; ROHE, FABIO; et al. NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics. ECOLOGY, v. 101, n. 11, . (14/01986-0, 12/14245-2, 10/05343-5, 13/50421-2, 06/04878-7, 17/21816-0, 05/00405-4, 13/24453-4, 15/22844-1, 13/07162-6, 15/19439-8, 16/11595-3, 19/04851-1, 15/18381-6, 13/04957-8, 14/23095-0, 14/09300-0, 11/06782-5, 15/17739-4, 11/22449-4, 14/23132-2, 14/10192-7, 12/00534-2, 14/14925-9)
MENDES, CALEBE P.; CARREIRA, DAIANE; PEDROSA, FELIPE; BECA, GABRIELLE; LAUTENSCHLAGER, LAIS; AKKAWI, PAULA; BERCE, WILLIAM; FERRAZ, KATIA M. P. M. B.; GALETTI, MAURO. Landscape of human fear in Neotropical rainforest mammals. Biological Conservation, v. 241, . (15/18381-6, 15/22844-1, 14/01986-0, 14/09300-0, 14/23095-0)
DA ROSA, CLARISSA ALVES; WALLAU, MARCELO OSORIO; PEDROSA, FELIPE. Hunting as the Main Technique Used to Control Wild Pigs in Brazil. WILDLIFE SOCIETY BULLETIN, v. 42, n. 1, p. 111-118, . (15/18381-6, 14/50434-0)
MAGIOLI, MARCELO; VILLAR, NACHO; JORGE, MARIA LUISA; BIONDO, CIBELE; KEUROGHLIAN, ALEXINE; BRADHAM, JENNIFER; PEDROSA, FELIPE; COSTA, VLADIMIR; MOREIRA, MARCELO ZACHARIAS; PASCHOALETTO MICCHI DE BARROS FERRAZ, KATIA MARIA; et al. Dietary expansion facilitates the persistence of a large frugivore in fragmented tropical forests. ANIMAL CONSERVATION, . (14/01986-0, 14/10192-7, 14/50434-0, 16/15436-7, 15/18381-6, 15/11521-7, 14/09300-0)
PEDROSA, FELIPE; BERCE, WILLIAM; LEVI, TAAL; PIRES, MATHIAS; GALETTI, MAURO. Seed dispersal effectiveness by a large-bodied invasive species in defaunated landscapes. Biotropica, v. 51, n. 6, . (14/50434-0, 16/15436-7, 15/22844-1, 15/18381-6)
PEDROSA, FELIPE; BERCE, WILLIAM; COSTA, VLADIMIR ELIODORO; LEVI, TAAL; GALETTI, MAURO. Diet of invasive wild pigs in a landscape dominated by sugar cane plantations. JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, v. 102, n. 5, p. 1309-1317, . (16/15436-7, 15/18381-6, 15/22844-1, 17/12925-0, 14/50434-0)
BECA, GABRIELLE; VANCINE, MAURICIO H.; CARVALHO, CAROLINA S.; PEDROSA, FELIPE; ALVES, RAFAEL SOUZA C.; BUSCARIOL, DAIANE; PERES, CARLOS A.; RIBEIRO, MILTON CEZAR; GALETTI, MAURO. High mammal species turnover in forest patches immersed in biofuel plantations. Biological Conservation, v. 210, p. 8-pg., . (15/18381-6, 14/01029-5, 13/50421-2, 14/01986-0, 14/23095-0)
Academic Publications
(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)
CHAGAS, Felipe Pedrosa. Invasion ecology of wild pigs Sus scrofa in Brazil. 2019. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Biociências. Rio Claro Rio Claro.

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