Large and medium-sized mammals in the urban park Cinturão Verde, Cianorte, northwestern Paraná

Thomas Lacher Jr.; Thais Martins; Henrique Ortencio-Filho; Simone Bunhuolo

doi:10.15560/12.2.1851

Check List 12(2): e19453, doi: 10.15560/12.2.1851

Large and medium-sized mammals in the urban park Cinturão Verde, Cianorte, northwestern Paraná

Thais de Oliveira Martins^‡, Simone Pereira Bunhuolo^‡, Henrique Ortencio-Filho^‡, Thomas Edward Lacher Jr.^§

‡ Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil§ Texas A&M University, United States of America

Corresponding author: Thomas Lacher Jr. ( tlacher@tamu.edu )

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: Lacher Jr. T, Martins T, Ortencio-Filho H, Bunhuolo S (2016) Large and medium-sized mammals in the urban park Cinturão Verde, Cianorte, northwestern Paraná. Check List 12(2): 1851. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.2.1851

Abstract

We surveyed the composition of large and medium-sized mammals in the urban park Cinturão Verde in the city of Cianorte, Paraná, Brazil. This urban reserve is an important regional corridor for wildlife. Data were collected monthly during seven months for six days with track plots, camera traps, and visual searches for animals and sign. Richness estimates were calculated using Chao 2 and ICE estimators. Nineteen species of mammals in seven orders and 14 families were recorded. Although the area displays a high degree of disturbance, it supports the presence of important species for the fauna of northwestern Paraná, including state, regional and globally threatened species.

Keywords

urban wildlife; corridors; fragmentation; species richness; Atlantic Forest