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I started my interest in ecology and conservation studying reptiles and then moving to the interesting world of bats during my BSc at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS – Brazil). After finishing my degree in 1997 I had the chance to start working with carnivores, which turned to be my passion. In 1997 I joined the Pro-Carnivores Institute (Brazilian NGO – www.procarnivoros.org.br) and the following year started my MSc at UFRGS- studying small carnivores in a fragmented region of the Atlantic forest in São Paulo state. The interest in habitat fragmentation and conservation ecology became the key component of my PhD, which started in 2002 at University of East Anglia (UK). My thesis examined the ecological consequences of habitat fragmentation and disturbance in Amazonian forests. The research was based around the town of Alta Floresta (Mato Grosso state); evaluating the effects of selective logging, wildfires and subsistence hunting on mid-sized to large bodied mammals. In 2007 I started my post-doc with the ecology department at the University of São Paulo (USP) to develop a follow up component of my thesis in Alta Floresta, a highly fragmented region of the ‘arc of deforestation’ in the Brazilian Amazon. My research interests encompass neotropical forest biology/ecology, human-wildlife conflicts and conservation at scales ranging from populations to regional landscapes.
Selected publications
Michalski F. & Peres C.A. (in press) Disturbance-mediated mammal persistence and abundance-area relationships in Amazonian forest fragments. Conservation Biology
Michalski F., Nishi I. & Peres, C.A. (2007) Disturbance-mediated drift in tree functional groups in Amazonian forest fragments. Biotropica, DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00318.x
Michalski F., Boulhosa R.L.P., Faria A. & Peres C.A. (2006) Human-wildlife conflicts in a fragmented Amazonian forest landscape: determinants of large felid depredation on livestock. Animal Conservation, 9, 179-188
Michalski F. & Peres C.A. (2005) Anthropogenic determinants of primate and carnivore local extinctions in a fragmented forest landscape of southern Amazonia. Biological Conservation, 124, 383-396
Michalski F., Crawshaw Jr.P.G., Oliveira T.G.de & Fabián M.E. (2006) Notes on home range and habitat use of three small carnivore species in a disturbed vegetation mosaic of southeastern Brazil. Mammalia, 70, 52-57
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