Visitors to urban natural areas can cause negative impacts on organisms and the environment. Considering the importance of urban parks for biodiversity conservation and the maintenance of environmental services, we characterized the profile of the visitors, the activities performed by them, and their negative impacts in the Chico Mendes Municipal Natural Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2018, we conducted inter...
Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T17:22:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2018-01-01; Mortality from collision with vehicles is the most visible impact of road traffic on wildlife. Mortality due to roads (hereafter road-kill) can affect the dynamic of populations of many species and can, therefore, increase the risk of local decline or extinction. This is especially true in Brazil, where...