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This book describes the fauna of the Pernambuco Endemism Center in Brazil's Northern Atlantic Forest, an understudied global biodiversity hotspot. Through seventeen curated chapters, it provides the latest information about the fauna of the northern portion of the Atlantic Forest, gathering important information about the faunal composition of the region for the first time. The chapters address animal biodiversity including terrestrial and aquatic vertebrates (fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals) and invertebrates (onychophorans, termites, ants, bees, dragonflies, treehopper, collembola, and beetles). Chapters provide species lists, but the book goes beyond just recitation to address human impacts on the forest and its species, conservation, and awareness
Chapter 1. An Introduction to the knowledge of Animal Diversity and Conservation in the Most Threatened Forests of Brazil
Chapter 2. Northern Atlantic Forest: Conservation status and perspectives
Chapter 3. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Pernambuco Endemism Center of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Chapter 4. The Butterfly Fauna of the Northern Atlantic Forest
Chapter 5. Dung beetles from the Atlantic Forest north of the São Francisco River: A synthesis of a fragile fauna
Chapter 6. The most endemic taxon of an area of endemism: harvestmen (Opiliones) fauna of NAF and its contribution for biogeography and conservation
Chapter 7. The Spider Fauna of the Northern Brazilian Atlantic Forest: effect of sampling bias on diversity patterns and conservation
Chapter 8. Termites from the Northern Atlantic Forest, Brazil: Ecology and Conservation
Chapter 9. Fishes from the Northern Atlantic Forest and their conservation
Chapter 10. Species richness, distribution pattern and conservation of amphibians in the northern portion of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Chapter 11. Composition, Species Richness and Conservation of the Reptiles of the Highly Threatened Northern Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Chapter 12. Bird diversity and conservation of the Northern Atlantic Forest
Chapter 13. Mammals of the Pernambuco Endemism Center: diversity, biogeography, research gaps, and conservation concerns
Chapter 14. Fisheries and uses of coastal aquatic fauna in the Northernmost Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Chapter 15. Hunting and uses of terrestrial vertebrates in the Northernmost Region in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil
Gentil Alves Pereira Filho is a biologist (PhD in Zoology, 2011) who has been dedicated to the study of snakes in the neotropical region, especially in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. His main interests are taxonomy and ecology of neotropical snakes. He has conducted research in Northeastern Brazil focused on the distribution of snakes in the Atlantic Forest for more than 15 years resulting in several published articles. Nowadays he is associated with research at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) and coordinates projects about snake ecology in the Atlantic Forest.
Frederico G.R. França is a biologist (PhD in Ecology, 2008), associate professor at the Federal University of Paraíba – UFPB, and coordinator of the Ecology Postgraduate Course. He has a keen interest in snake ecology and conservation, and his areas of academic interest are population and community ecology, ecomorphology and conservation biology. He has conducted research on Brazilian herpetofauna, mainly in the Cerrado and the Atlantic Forest.
Rômulo R.N. Alves is a biologist (PhD in Zoology, 2006) with a keen interest in the connections between humans and animals. His areas of academic interest are ethnozoology and wildlife trade, uses and conservation. He has conducted ethnobiological research for the last twenty years, which focuses on ethnozoology, particularly on fisheries, hunting, and wildlife trade and uses. He coordinates projects on hunting and the uses of wildlife in Brazil. In addition, he is one of the Editors-in-Chief of the journal Ethnobiology and Conservation and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. He also holds a Productivity scholarship provided by the National Council of Science and Technology (CNPq).
Alexandre Vasconcellos has a PhD in Biological Sciences (Zoology) from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil. He develops projects on termite ecology and biogeography, soil ecology and conservation biology in neotropical ecosystems. He is the curator of the Isoptera Collection and Coordinator of the Termitology Laboratory (LabTermes-UFPB). He has a Productivity Scholarship in Research, supported by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).
