Hélder Queiroz

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In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Lima and the second or paternal family name is Queiroz.
Hélder Queiroz
Born
Hélder Lima de Queiroz

1963 (age 60–61)
Pirapora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
CitizenshipBrazilian
Education
  • University of Brasília (B.Sc., 1989)
  • Federal University of Pará (M.Sc., 1994)
  • St. Andrews University (Ph.D., 2000)
Scientific career
FieldsConservation biology
InstitutionsMamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development
ThesisNatural History and Conservation of Pirarucu, Arapaima gigas, at the Amazonian Várzea: Red Giants in Muddy Waters (2000)
Doctoral advisorAnne Magurran
Other academic advisorsJosé Márcio Ayres

Hélder Lima de Queiroz (Portuguese pronunciation:

behaviorist.[1]

He is the Director of the

Amazon flood forest and the well-being of those who live there, through community management of the environment.[2]

Queiroz received his doctorate in 2000 from

Anne E. Magurran
.

He has discovered and named a new species of capuchin monkey (Queiroz, 1992). He currently (2013) works on Amazon flooded forest ecology, ecology and behaviour of Amazonian vertebrates, and Indigenous hunting. He is a graduate faculty member in zoology at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, and animal sciences at Federal University of Pará State (UFPA), in Belém.

Selected publications

  • SOUSA, L. L.; QUEIROZ, H. L.; AYRES, J. M. 2006. The mottled-face tamarin, Sguinus inustus, in the Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve. Neotropical Primates, Vol. 12, 121-122.
  • QUEIROZ, H. L. 1992. A new species of capuchin monkey, genus Cebus Erxleben, 1777 (Cebidae: Primates) from Eastern Brazilian Amazonia. Goeldiana, Zoologia Vol. 15, 1-13.
  • QUEIROZ, H. L. 1994. Preguiças e Guaribas: Os Mamíferos Folívoros Arborícolas do Mamirauá. Brasília: Sociedade Civil Mamirauá & CNPq. 120 pp.[3]
  • QUEIROZ, H. L.; MAGURRAN, A. E. 2005. Safety in Numbers? Schoaling behaviour of the Amazonian red-bellied piranha. Biological Letters of the Royal Society, Vol. 1, n. 2, 155-157.

References

  1. ^ Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Série ciências naturais - Volume 1, Numéro 1 - Page 258 Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil. Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia - 2005 "Hélder Lima de Queiroz : em prol da preservação da natureza. Foi um dos cientistas brasileiros mais premiados na área de Conservação da Biodiversidade, especialista em criação e gestão de Unidades de Conservação, ..."
  2. ^ 14 Jul 2006 – Hélder Lima de Queiroz ISDM abstracts.
  3. ^ Ciência hoje: revista de divulgação científica da Sociedade Nos 117-125 - Page 79 1996 "Os mamíferos folívoros arborícolas do Mamirauá, de Hélder Lima de Queiroz, por Rui Cerqueira; na 118, p. 17."

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