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Formal education, previous interaction and perception influence the attitudes o...
Pinheiro, Luan Tavares; Rodrigues, João Fabrício Mota; Nojosa, Diva Maria BorgesThe attitudes and perceptions of people toward animals are influenced by sociodemographic factors, such as formal education and gender, and by personal experience. Understanding these interactions is critical for the establishment of conservation strategies for animals that have conflictual relationships with humans, such as snakes. Our study aims to explain how perceptions and the human fear of snakes vary and...
Thermal ecology of a nocturnal invasive lizard along coastal populations in Nor...
Pinheiro, Luan TavaresTemperature is an essential aspect for the whole animal biological functioning, especially for ectotherms, which depend on environmental heat and behavior to adjust their body temperature. In the present study, we evaluated body temperatures of seven urban populations of the nocturnal lizard Hemidactylus mabouia along the northeast Brazilian coast and their relationship with air and substrate temperatures. We f...
Assessing the influence of geographic distance in parasite communities of an ex...
Bezerra, Castiele Holanda; Pinheiro, Luan Tavares; Melo, Gabriela Cavalcante De; Zanchi-Silva, Djan; Queiroz, Murilo De Souza [UNESP]Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T17:26:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-01-01; The decay of similarity between biological communities with increasing geographical distance is a well-established pattern in ecology, but there are more complex factors acting on host population connections that influence this association for parasite communities, such as parasites' colonization abilit...
Personalidade pode influenciar no uso do espaço em uma espécie de lagarto?=Can ...
Pinheiro, Luan TavaresDissertação (mestrado) - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Prog. Pós-Grad Biologia Vertebrados (mestrado) - P.; Bibliografia: f. 26-30; Resumo: Personalidade animal pode figurar como um importante aspecto modelando processos ecológicos e evolutivos nos animais. Além disso, personalidade pode desempenhar um importante papel estruturando o uso do espaço, mas essa questão permanece incongruente ent...