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Amazonia and other forests of Brazil : memoirs of a field ecologist / Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes.

Title
Amazonia and other forests of Brazil : memoirs of a field ecologist / Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes.
Author
Pontes, Antonio Rossano Mendes
Publication
London : Janus Publishing, 2009.

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Description
xxi, 252 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 21 cm.
Subject
  • Pontes, Antonio Rossano Mendes
  • Ecologists > Biography
  • Rain forest ecology > Amazon River Region
  • Forest ecology > Amazon River Region
  • Mammals > Amazon River Region
  • Roraima (Brazil) > Social life and customs
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Autobiographies
Contents
A great start with George Schaller -- I embraced field ecology in the north-eastern Atlantic forest -- The Golden Lion Tamarin Project : the south-east Atlantic forest -- I decided to go to the northernmost frontier of Brazil -- I returned to Roraima to study the entire mammal community -- The impact of the forests of Maracá on the mammals -- Maracá's forests at night -- The new blond capuchin monkey : hope at the very brink of extinction -- Epilogue: my dream as an individual to improve conservation.
ISBN
  • 9781857567557
  • 1857567552
OCLC
  • 559831469
  • SCSB-11709720
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library