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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Bartolomeu de Gusmao, Carlos A. Peres, Mario Guimaraes Ferri, Elsimar M. Coutinho, Carlos Chagas, Manuel de Abreu, Jose Reis, Thais Russomano, Santiago Americano Freire, Agenor Mafra-Neto, Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, Oswaldo Cruz, Eduardo Krieger, Cesar Lattes, Vital Brazil, Crodowaldo Pavan, List of Brazilian scientists, Jorge Stolfi, Marco Antonio Zago, Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro, Miguel Rolando Covian, Mauricio Rocha e Silva, Aristides Leao, Ned Kock, Carlos Paz de Araujo, Drauzio Varella, Adolfo Lutz, Josue de Castro, Carlos Bertulani, Julio Ximenes Senior, Heinz Ebert, Jose Aristodemo Pinotti, Helder Queiroz, Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna, Quintiliano de Mesquita, Gilberto Camara, Jose Moura Goncalves, Angelo Moreira da Costa Lima, Gilberto Righi, Paulo Alfeu Junqueira Duarte, Gastao Rosenfeld, Ricardo Renzo Brentani, Miguel Osorio de Almeida, Lucy Seki, Joao Barbosa Rodrigues, Adib Domingos Jatene, Roberto Esser dos Reis, Helio Lourenco de Oliveira, Anita Dolly Panek, Evandro Chagas, Giuseppe Cilento, Theodor Peckolt, Manuel Mateus Ventura, Alysson Paolinelli, Edson Lobato, Renato Migliorini. Excerpt: Carlos Augusto da Silva Peres is a Brazilian field biologist who works in the Amazon and other neotropical forest regions on questions involving wildlife and biological conservation. His interests are in (i) the large-scale patterns of large-bodied vertebrate diversity and abundance in Amazonian forests; (ii) the effects of different forms on human disturbance, including hunting, habitat fragmentation and wildfires, on Amazonian forest vertebrates; and (iii) reserve selection and design criteria in relation to regional gradients of biodiversity value and implementation costs. He currently co-directs three research programs on natural resource management in eastern, southern and western Amazonia focusing on the ec...
