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    A new park in the Bolivian Gran Chaco – an advance in tropical dry forest conservation and community-based management
    (Cambridge University Press, 1997) Andrew Taber; Gonzalo Navarro; Miguel Angel Arribas
    The Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park and Integrated Management Area was established in September 1995. At 3.44 million hectares it is one of South America's largest protected areas. The tropical dry forest of the Chaco, which this reserve protects, is Bolivia's most threatened major lowland habitat type. With the creation of this reserve the protected-area coverage of the Gran Chaco increased to 4.7 per cent. With at least 69 species of mammals (the Chiroptera have not yet been surveyed), it is one of the richest Neotropical sites for this taxonomic group. The Kaa-Iya park is being administered by the Izoceño-Guaraní Indian organization, the Capitanía del Alto y Bajo Izozog, and puts community-based conservation into practice. Threats to the park include encroachment by colonists, ranchers and farmers; the Bolivia-Brazil gas pipeline; and hunting.
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    A new park in the Bolivian Gran Chaco – an advance in tropical dry forest conservation and community-based management
    (Cambridge University Press, 1997) Andrew Taber; Gonzalo Navarro; Miguel Angel Arribas
    The Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park and Integrated Management Area was established in September 1995. At 3.44 million hectares it is one of South America's largest protected areas. The tropical dry forest of the Chaco, which this reserve protects, is Bolivia's most threatened major lowland habitat type. With the creation of this reserve the protected-area coverage of the Gran Chaco increased to 4.7 per cent. With at least 69 species of mammals (the Chiroptera have not yet been surveyed), it is one of the richest Neotropical sites for this taxonomic group. The Kaa-Iya park is being administered by the Izoceño-Guaraní Indian organization, the Capitanía del Alto y Bajo Izozog, and puts community-based conservation into practice. Threats to the park include encroachment by colonists, ranchers and farmers; the Bolivia-Brazil gas pipeline; and hunting.
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    Área de acción, actividad y uso de hábitat del zorro patas negras, Cerdocyon thous, en un bosque seco
    (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, 2003) Leonardo Maffei; Andrew Taber
    "Se estudió el área de acción de tres zorros patas negras ( Cerdocyon thous) enun bosque seco de Santa Cruz, Bolivia a través de radiotelemetría durante un período de15 meses. Utilizando el Polígono Mínimo Convexo como estimador se encontró que losanimales ocuparon áreas entre 280 y 110 ha con un solapamiento mínimo (27 ha) entrevecinos. Los hábitos de los zorros son principalmente nocturnos, con la mayor actividadregistrada entre las 17:00 y las 8:00 horas. Prefirieron el bosque ribereño a los bosqueschaqueños o de serranía, aunque el primero estaba disponible en un área mucho menor."
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    Differential habitat use by two sympatric brocket deer species (<i>Mazama americana</i>and <i>M. gouazoubira</i>) in a seasonal Chiquitano forest of Bolivia
    (De Gruyter, 2005) Kathia Rivero; Damián I. Rumiz; Andrew Taber
    A study of habitat use of two sympatric brocket deer species was conducted by recording dung and tracks along 40 km trails cleared through four vegetation types in the chaco-cerrado border of Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia. Deer signs of each species were characterized and discriminated by size and shape and counted for each habitat (transitional chaco forest, chiquitano riverine forest, chiquitano moist piedmont forest and cerrado open woodland) by walking 180-km in the wet season and 90-km in the dry season. The four habitats showed differences in vegetation structure and plant composition (canopy height and cover, horizontal visibility, and fruit resources) as well as frequency of signs for each brocket deer species. Although red brocket signs were less abundant than gray brocket signs, for both species and in every habitat we found consistently more tracks than dung in the wet season, and more dung than tracks in the dry season. Dung and track counts indicated that gray brockets were common and widespread in the four habitats, while reds occurred mostly in piedmont and riverine forest. Daily activity hours recorded by camera trapping showed that red brockets were active mostly from sunset until sunrise (6 pm to 6 am: 87% of 32 events) and gray brockets mostly in the morning (5 am to 10 am: 66% of 87 events). Patterns of habitat use and daily activity suggest that these sympatric deer species segregate in space and time. A comparative study of their diet, plus more behavioral data from sympatric and allopatric situations are needed to better understand the way in which deer may partition resources.
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    Globalization of Conservation: A View from the South
    (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007) Jon Paul Rodrı́guez; Andrew Taber; Peter Daszak; Raman Sukumar; Cláudio Valladares‐Pádua; Suzana M. Padua; Luís F. Aguirre; Rodrigo A. Medellín; Martín Acosta; A. Alonso Aguirre
    Patterning Conservation Flows: How Formal and Informal Networks Shape Transnational Conservation Practice,