Governance regime and location influence avoided deforestation success of protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon

C Nolte, A Agrawal, KM Silvius… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
… Covering an area of more than 5 million km 2 , the Brazilian Amazon exhibits significant
spatial differences in terms of agricultural potential, transport infrastructure, and market access; …

Long‐distance seed dispersal by tapirs increases seed survival and aggregates tropical trees

JMV Fragoso, KM Silvius, JA Correa - Ecology, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… we examine the specific case of such dispersal occurring over distances of more than 1 km.
… Maracá extend unbroken for from hundreds of kilometers to up to 1500 km to the north, west, …

Red‐rumped Agouti (Dasyprocta leporina) Home Range Use in an Amazonian Forest: Implications for the Aggregated Distribution of Forest Trees

KM Silvius, JMV Fragoso - Biotropica, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… Sampling of fallen fruit along two, 2 km long transects also detected aggregation in fruit …
with seasons of low fruit production during this study (Silvius 1999). Use of space by agoutis in …

Large-scale environmental monitoring by indigenous peoples

JB Luzar, KM Silvius, H Overman, ST Giery… - …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
… If the data recording the distance of the observer on the transect and the amount of time
walked were incompatible (eg, walking 1 km across difficult terrain in 10 minutes), we were …

Agent-based modeling of hunting and subsistence agriculture on indigenous lands: Understanding interactions between social and ecological systems

T Iwamura, EF Lambin, KM Silvius, JB Luzar… - … Modelling & Software, 2014 - Elsevier
… The boundary of the simulation area is defined by a 10 km buffer beyond the extent of … ratio”),
the mean distance of kill locations from a village in km (“hunt distance”), the average size of …

[HTML][HTML] Line transect surveys underdetect terrestrial mammals: implications for the sustainability of subsistence hunting

…, JB Luzar, H Overman, JM Read, KM Silvius - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
… equally between two distance zones (0–6 km and 6–12 km from the village (or from the site
… where concentric 12 km sample areas of adjacent villages overlap. A 3 km minimum spacing …

Mammal diversity influences the carbon cycle through trophic interactions in the Amazon

M Sobral, KM Silvius, H Overman, LFB Oliveira… - Nature ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
… Mammal occurrence was recorded biweekly through sign and sightings on 215 transects
of 4 km in length during 3 years (a total of 10,027 animal surveys, with 49 ± 15 sd surveys per …

Space, place, and hunting patterns among indigenous peoples of the Guyanese Rupununi region

JM Read, JMV Fragoso, KM Silvius, J Luzar… - Journal of Latin …, 2010 - JSTOR
Hunting remains an important subsistence activity for many indigenous peoples of the
Neotropics. This paper describes indigenous hunting patterns using a mixed-methods approach …

[BOOK][B] People in nature: wildlife conservation in South and Central America

KM Silvius, RE Bodmer, JMV Fragoso - 2004 - degruyter.com
… The Amazon rain forest, for example, extends over 2500 km from east to west and about
2000 km from north to south. It is the largest continuous tropical forest on earth and the second …

Spatio-temporal patterns of palm endocarp use by three Amazonian forest mammals: granivory or 'grubivory'?

KM Silvius - Journal of tropical ecology, 2002 - cambridge.org
… maripa trees, indicating that they are rapidly hoarded and then consumed away from the
parent tree (KM Silvius, pers. obs.). Because Attalea palms are common throughout Central and …