Maned wolf survival rate in central Brazil

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 282, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 207-213

  Sollmann, R ^a,b   Furtado, M M ^a,c   Jacomo A T A ^a   Torres N M ^a,d   Silveira, L ^a  

^a Instituto Onça Pintada   (Brazil)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Cerrado; Chrysocyon brachyurus; Maned wolf; Mark recapture models; Radio telemetry; Survival rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CANID; CERRADO; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT LOSS; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; NATIONAL PARK; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTELEMETRY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BRAZIL; EMAS NATIONAL PARK; GOIAS;

CANIDAE; CHRYSOCYON BRACHYURUS;

EID: 78649573895     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: 14697998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2010.00727.x     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Adams, L.G., Stephenson, R.O., Dale, B.W., Ahgook, R.T. & Demma, D.J. (2008). Population dynamics and harvest characteristics of wolves in the central Brooks Range, Alaska. Wildl. Monogr. 170, 1-25.
2. Beissinger, S.R. (2002). Population viability analysis: past, present, future. In Population viability analysis: 5-17. Beissinger, S.R. & McCullough, D.R. (Eds). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
3. Boyce, M.S. (1992). Population viability analysis. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 23, 481-506.
4. Buckland, S.T., Burnham, K.P. & Augustin, N.H. (1997). Model selection: an integral part of inference. Biometrics 53, 603-618.
5. Burnham, K.P. (1993). A theory for combined analysis of ring recovery and recapture data. In Marked individuals in the study of bird population: 199-213. Lebreton, J.-D. & North, P.M. (Eds). Basel: Birkhauser Verlag.
6. Burnham, K.P. & Anderson, D.R. (2002). Model selection and multimodel inference: a practical information-theoretic approach. New York: Springer-Verlag.
7. Cavalcanti, R.B. & Joly, C.A. (2002). Biodiversity and conservation priorities in the Cerrado region. In The Cerrados of Brazil. Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Savannah: 351-367. Oliveira, P.S. & Marquis, R.J. (Eds). New York: Columbia University Press.
8. Ceballos, G., Erlich, P.R., Soberon, J., Salazar, I. & Fay, J.P. (2005). Global mammal conservation: What must we manage? Science 309, 603-607.
9. Chamberlain, M.J. (2001). Survival and cause-specific mortality of adult coyotes (Canis latrans) in central Mississippi. Am. Midl. Nat. 145, 414-418.
10. Choquet, R., Reboulet, A.M., Lebreton, J.D., Gimenez, O. & Pradel, R. (2005). U-CARE 2.2 User's Manual. CEFE, Montepellier, France. Available at (accessed 25 October 2009).
11. Choquet, R., Reboulet, A.M., Lebreton, J.D., Gimenez, O. & Pradel, R. (2008). U-CARE V2.3. Available at (accessed 25 October 2009).
12. Dietz, J.M. (1984). Ecology and social organization of the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus). Smiths. Contrib. Zool. 392, 1-51.
13. Eisenberg, J.F. & Redford, K.H. (1999). Mammals of the neotropics. Volume 3. The central neotropics: Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
14. Gould, W.R. & Nichols, J.D.N. (1998). Estimation of temporal variability of survival in animal populations. Ecology 79, 2531-2538.
15. Hayes, R.D & Harestad, A.S. (2000). Demography of a recovering wolf population in the Yukon. Can. J. Zool. 78, 36-48.
16. IBDF/FBCN. (1981). Plano de Manejo do Parque Nacional das Emas (PNE). Brazil: Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e Recursos Naturais Renováveis.
17. IUCN. (2009). IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. Gland: IUCN. Available at (accessed 29 October 2009).
18. Jácomo, A.T.A., Kashivakura, C.K., Ferro, C., Furtado, M.M., Astete, S.P., Tôrres, N.M., Sollmann, R. & Silveira, L. (2009). Maned wolf home-range and spatial organization in the Brazilian Grasslands. J. Mammal. 90, 150-157.
19. Jácomo, A.T.A., Silveira, L. & Diniz-Filho, J.A.F. (2004). Niche separation between the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), the crab-eating fox (Dusicyon thous) and the hoary fox (Dusicyon vetulus) in central Brazil. J. Zool. (Lond.) 262, 99-106.
20. Kamler, J.F. & Gipson, P.S. (2004). Survival and cause-specific mortality among furbearers in a protected area. Am. Midl. Nat. 151, 27-34.
21. Karanth, K.U. & Chellam, R. (2009). Carnivore conservation at the crossroads. Oryx 43, 1-2.
22. Karanth, K.U., Nichols, J.D., Kumar, N.S. & Hines, J.E. (2006). Assessing tiger population dynamics using photographic capture-recapture sampling. Ecology 87, 2925-2937.
23. Klink, C.A. & Machado, R.B. (2005). Conservation of the Brazilian Cerrado. Conserv. Biol. 19, 707-713.
24. Lambin, X., Aars, J. & Piertney, S.B. (2001). Dispersal, intraspecific competition, kin competition and kin facilitation: a review of the empirical evidence. In Dispersal: 110-122. Clobert, J., Danchin, E., Dhondt, A.A. & Nichols, J.D. (Eds). New York: Oxford University Press.
25. Lande, R. (2002). Incorporating Stochasticity in population Viability Analysis. In Population viability analysis: 18-40. Beissinger, S.R. & McCullough, D.R. (Eds). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
26. Langguth, A. (1975). Ecology and evolution in the South American canids. In The wild canids. Their systematics and behaviour: 192-206. Fox, M.W. (Ed.). New York: Litton Educational Publishing.
27. Lebreton, J.D., Burnham, K.P., Clobert, J. & Anderson, D.R. (1992). Modeling survival and testing biological hypotheses using marked animals: case studies and recent advances. Ecol. Monogr. 62, 67-118.
28. Marucco, F., Pletscher, D.H., Boitani, L., Schwartz, M.K., Pilgrim, K.L. & Lebreton, J.D. (2009). Wolf survival and population trend using non-invasive capture-recapture techniques in the Western Alps. J. Appl. Ecol. 46, 1003-1010.
29. Murray, D.L. & Patterson, B.R. (2006). Wildlife survival estimation: recent advances and future directions. J. Wildl. Mgmt. 70, 1499-1503.
30. Myers, N., Mittermeier, R.A., Mittermeier, C.G., Da Fonseca, G.A.B. & Kent, J. (2000). Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities. Nature 403, 853-858.
31. Paula, R.C., Medici, P. & Morato, R.G. (Eds.). (2008). Plano de Ação para a Conservação do Lobo-Guará. Análise de Viabilidade Populacional e de Hábitat (PHVA). Bras í lia: IBAMA.
32. Pollock, K.H., Nichols, J.D., Brownie, C. & Hines, J.E. (1990). Statistical inference for capture-recapture experiments. Wildl. Monogr. 107, 1-97.
33. Reid, J.M., Mills, L.S., Dunning, J.B. Jr, Menges, E.S., McKelvey, K.S., Frye, R., Beissinger, S.R., Anstett, M.-C. & Miller, P. (2002). Emerging issues in population viability analysis. Conserv. Biol. 16, 7-19.
34. Rodden, M., Rodrigues, F. & Bestelmeyer, S. (2004). Maned wolf Chrysocyon brachyurus (Illiger 1815). In Status survey and conservation action plan. Canids: foxes, wolves, jackals and dogs: 38-43. Zillero-Zubiri, C., Hoffmann, M. & Macdonald, D.W. (Eds). Available at (accessed 30 June 2006).
35. Rodden, M., Rodrigues, F. & Bestelmeyer, S. (2008). Chrysocyon brachyurus. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Gland: IUCN. Available at (accessed 4 April 2009).
36. Rodrigues, F.H.G. (2002). Biologia e conservação do lobo-guará na Estação Ecológica de Águas Emendadas, DF. Ph.D. thesis, State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
37. Sandercock, B.K. (2006). Estimation of demographic parameters from live encounter data: a summary review. J. Wildl. Mgmt. 70, 1504-1520.
38. Schipper, J., Chanson, J.S., Chiozza, F., Cox, N.A., Hoffmann, M., Kataryia, V., Lamoreux, J., Rodrigues, A.S.L., Stuart, S.N., Temple, H.J., Baillie, J., Boitani, L., Lacher, T.E. Jr, Mittermeier, R.A., Smith, A.T., Absolon, D., Aguiar, J.M., Amori, G., Bakkour, N., Baldi, R., Berridge, R.J., Bielby, J., Black, P.A., Blanc, J.J., Brooks, T.M., Burton, J.A., Butynski, T.M., Catullo, G., Chapman, R., Cokeliss, Z., Collen, B., Conroy, J., Cooke, J.G., Da Fonseca, G.A.B., Derocher, A.E., Dublin, H.T., Duckworth, J.W., Emmons, L., Emslie, R.H., Festa-Bianchet, M., Foster, M., Foster, S., Garshelis, D.L., Gates, C., Gimenez-Dixon, M., Gonzalez, S., Gonzalez-Maya, J.F., Good, T.C., Hammerson, G., Hammond, P.S., Happold, D., Happold, M., Hare, J., Harris, R.B., Hawkins, C.E., Haywood, M., Heaney, L.R., Hedges, S., Helgen, K.M., Hilton-Taylor, C., Hussain, S.A., Ishii, N., Jefferson, T.A., Jenkins, R.K.B., Johnston, C.H., Keith, M., Kingdon, J., Knox, D.H., Kovacs, K.M., Langhammer, P., Leus, K., Lewison, R., Lichtenstein, G., Lowry, L.F., Macavoy, Z., Mace, G.M., Mallon, D.P., Masi, M., McKnight, M.W., Medellín, R.A., Medici, P., Mills, G., Moehlman, P.D., Molur, S., Mora, A., Nowell, K., Oates, J.F., Olech, W., Oliver, W.R.L., Oprea, M., Patterson, B.D., Perrin, W.F., Polidoro, B.A., Pollock, C., Powel, A., Protas, Y., Racey, P., Ragle, J., Ramani, P., Rathbun, G., Reeves, R.R., Reilly, S.B., Reynolds, J.E., Rondinini, C., Rosell-Ambal, R.G., Rulli, M., Rylands, A.B., Savini, S., Schank, C.J., Sechrest, W., Self-Sullivan, C., Shoemaker, A., Sillero-Zubiri, C., De Silva, N., Smith, D.E., Srinivasulu, C., Stephenson, P.J., Van Strien, N., Talukdar, B.K., Taylor, B.L., Timmins, R., Tirira, D.G., Tognelli, M.F., Tsytsulina, K., Veiga, L.M., Vié, J.-C., Williamson, E.A., Wyatt, S.A., Xie, Y. & Young, B.E. (2008). The status of the world's land and marine mammals: diversity, threat and knowledge. Science 322, 225-230.
39. Silveira, L., Furtado, M.M., Tôrres, N.M., Sollmann, R., Uhl, G. & Jácomo, A.T.A. (2009). Maned wolf density in a Central Brazilian Grassland Reserve. J. Wildl. Mgmt. 73, 68-71.
40. Trolle, M., Noss, A.J., Lima, E.S. & Dalponte, J. (2007). Camera-trap studies of maned wolf density in the Cerrado and the Pantanal of Brazil. Biodivers. Conserv. 16, 1197-1204.
41. Van Deelen, T.R. & Gosselink, T.E. (2006). Coyote survival in a row-crop agricultural landscape. Can. J. Zool. 84, 1630-1636.
42. White, G.C. & Burnham, K.P. (1999). Program MARK: survival estimation from populations of marked animals. Bird Study 46 (Suppl.), 120-138.