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Book cover Biodiversity and Conservation of the Yucatán Peninsula

Abstract

The Yucatán Peninsula contains some of the largest tracts of tropical forest in Mexico. These forests host six species of ungulates, including the largest and last survivor of the Neotropical megafauna, the Central American Tapir; one of the rarest ungulate species in Mexico, the White-lipped Peccary; and one endemic species of deer, the Gray Brocket. The Yucatán Peninsula is also home to another peccary species, two more deer species, five felid species, including the jaguar and the puma, and three species of primates. Most of these species face serious conservation threats, as their habitat is increasingly fragmented and because they are among the preferred targets of subsistence hunters. Some of these species require large areas of habitat in good conservation status to fulfill their basic needs for survival. Several research projects undertaken in the past years, and some currently being carried out, have addressed a lack of basic ecological information in this region. Among the ungulates, ecological research has focused on tapir, white-lipped peccary and the three deer species. For felids, scientific attention has been focused on the two largest species, the jaguar and puma; and all three primate species have received scientific attention recently, although more studies have focused on the black howler monkey. This chapter is an attempt to summarize what is currently known about these, the largest mammal species of the Yucatán Peninsula, and to point out gaps in the existing information. Such information is absolutely necessary to design conservation and management plans for these highly interesting and endangered species.

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  1. Departamento Conservación de la Biodiversidad, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad Campeche, CP, 24500, Campeche, Mexico

    Rafael Reyna-Hurtado & Guillermo Castillo-Vela

  2. University of Toronto, 25 Harbord Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 3G5

    Georgina O’Farrill

  3. Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales Unidad Lerma, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, CP, 52006, Edo de México, Mexico

    Cuauhtémoc Chávez

  4. Red de Biología y Conservación de Vertebrados, Instituto Nacional de Ecología, A.C., CP 91070, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

    Juan Carlos Serio-Silva

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  1. Rafael Reyna-Hurtado
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  1. El Colegio de la Frontera Sur ECOSUR, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico

    Gerald Alexander Islebe

  2. Université de Sherbrooke, sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

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  3. San Cristóbal de las Casas, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur ECOSUR, Chiapas, Mexico

    Jorge L. León-Cortés

  4. El Colegio de la Frontera Sur ECOSUR, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico

    Birgit Schmook

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Reyna-Hurtado, R., O’Farrill, G., Chávez, C., Serio-Silva, J.C., Castillo-Vela, G. (2015). Large Terrestrial Mammals. In: Islebe, G., Calmé, S., León-Cortés, J., Schmook, B. (eds) Biodiversity and Conservation of the Yucatán Peninsula. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06529-8_10

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