José Márcio Ayres

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José Márcio Ayres
ThesisUakaris and Amazonian flooded forest (1986)
Academic advisorsDavid J. Chivers
Paulo Vanzolini
Notable studentsHélder Queiroz

José Márcio Corrêa Ayres (February 21, 1954 – March 7, 2003) was a Brazilian

primatologist and conservationist who founded the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve in 1996, followed by the Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve in 1998.[4] The two reserves are located in the central region of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, and are joined to adjacent Jaú National Park to form a corridor spanning over 20,000 square miles (52,000 km2) of protected rainforest.[5]

Ayres devoted his life to the preservation of the unique biota and ecosystems of the

Ayres' doctorate in primatology at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1986 was for his thesis Uakaris and Amazonian flooded forest, the field work for which was undertaken on the upper Amazon River floodplain, near Tefé.[8]

Ayres died of lung cancer in 2003 at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, United States.[4]

Selected publications

  • Ayres, José Márcio (1993). As Matas de Várzea do Mamirauá (in Portuguese). CNPq: Sociedade Civil Mamirauá.
  • Ayres, J.M. (1985). "On a new species of squirrel monkey, genus Saimiri, from Brazilian Amazonia (Primates, Cebidae)". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 36: 147–164.
  • Ayres, J.M. (1989). "Comparative feeding ecology of the Uakari and Bearded Saki, Cacajao and Chiropotes". Journal of Human Evolution. 18: 697–716. .
  • Ayres, J.M.; .
  • Mittermeier, R.A.; Schwarz, M.; Ayres, J.M. (1992). "A new species of marmoset, genus Callithrix Erxleben, 1777 (Callitrichidae, Primates) from the Rio Maués region, state of Amazonas, central Brazilian Amazonia". Goeldiana Zoologia. 14: 1–17.
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References

  1. ^ "The Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Medal". WWF. Archived from the original on 2014-07-25.
  2. ^ "Membros da Ordem Falecidos". Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  3. ^ "An Amazonian legacy". Rolex Awards.
  4. ^ a b Saxon, Wolfgang (March 11, 2003). "José Márcio Ayres Dies at 49; Saved Heart of the Amazon". The New York Times.
  5. ^ "Central Amazon Conservation Complex". UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
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  7. ^ Ayres, J.M. (1986). "The conservation status of the white uakari" (PDF). Primate Conservation.
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