Check List 6(4): 668-675, doi: 10.15560/6.4.668
Mammalia, Estação Ecológica do Panga, a Cerrado protected area in Minas Gerais state, Brazil
Emilio M. Bruna,
Juliane Fernandes Guimarães,
Cauê T. Lopes,
Polyanna Duarte,
Ana Cláudia Lemos Gomes,
Sônia Cristina S. Belentani,
Renata Pacheco,
Kátia G. Facure,
Frederico G. Lemos,
Heraldo L. Vasconcelos
Corresponding author:
Emilio Bruna
(
embruna@ufl.edu
)
© 2017 Emilio Bruna, Juliane Guimarães, Cauê Lopes, Polyanna Duarte, Ana Cláudia Gomes, Sônia Cristina Belentani, Renata Pacheco, Kátia Facure, Frederico Lemos, Heraldo Vasconcelos. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Bruna E, Pacheco R, Guimarães J, Lemos F, Lopes C, Belentani S, Duarte P, Facure K, Gomes A, Vasconcelos H (2016) Mammalia, Estação Ecológica do Panga, a Cerrado protected area in Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Check List 6(4): 668-675. https://doi.org/10.15560/6.4.668 |  |
Abstract
We present a species list of the mammals of the Estação Ecológica do Panga, a 404 ha Cerrado reserve in Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Using methods ranging from camera traps to direct observations, we documented 46 species in the reserve. Among medium and large-sized mammals, the order Carnivora was the most commonly observed (N=12 species). The highest relative frequencies of observation were of Mazama guazoubira and Cerdocyon thous. Pecari tajacu was the most frequent species in camera traps. Over the course of 7320 trap nights there were 105 captures of small mammals from seven species, with an overall capture rate of 1.6 %. The highest capture rates were for the marsupial Gracilinanus agilis, with Calomys tener the most commonly caught rodent. Our survey suggests that many of the Cerrado’s mammal species can persist in landscapes that are a mosaic of natural areas and some types of agriculture.