Acoustic monitoring of bats in caves of Southeastern Amazon - development of protocol and ecological patterns (Pará - Brazil)

The goal is to evaluate how the acoustic monitoring helps the inventory and the monitoring of the bats in caves of Southeastern Amazon (Serra dos Carajás). Beyond that, this project aims to describe the ecological patterns (temporal and spatial) of the aerial insectivorous bat species that lives in the caves of Carajás. 

Funding: Vale Institute of Tecnology

Unraveling the interactions between bats and plants in the Carajás region using DNA Metabarcoding (Pará - Brazil)

The goal is to describe the interactions between nectarivorous bats and flowers in the Southeaster Amazon (Serra dos Carajás), using DNA Metabarcoding of the pollen removed in the bats' fur. 

Funding: Vale Institute of Tecnology

Activity of aerial insectivorous bats in response to habitat disturbance (Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project - Amazonas - Brazil)

The goal is to understand species-level variation in activity across habitats (continuous forest, fragments and secondary forest) at different temporal scales (between the nights and within the same night). 

Funding: Rufford Foundation, National Geographic Society and Thomas Lovejoy research funding. 

Moonlight intensity effects on nocturnal animal activity 

The goal is to understand how the moonlight intensity affect the temporal activity of aerial insectivorous bats.

Funding: Rufford Foundation, National Geographic Society and Thomas Lovejoy research funding. 

Urban Amazonian Project - Manaus - Amazonas - Brazil

In this interactive virtual book, the readers will be invited to learn in a fun way about the urban fauna of Manaus (Brazil). Who are these animals? How is their life in the city? Why are they so important to us? What can we do to preserve these animals? The project has pillars of playful education and democratic acess, not proposing to be a scientific document. Our principal public is students of the first years of public schools of Manaus and region.

Researchers: Lídia Martins and Tainara Sobroza

Funding: National Geographic Society (Explorer Community grant)

Website: https://www.amazoniaurbana.com.br/

Instagram: @amazonia.urbana.projeto (portuguese)

Twitter: @amazoniaurbana (portuguese and english)