Hélder Lima de Queiroz () (born 1963) is a Brazilian

conservation biologist Conservation biology is the study of the conservation of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions. It is an i ...

, primatologist, and

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behaviorist Behaviorism is a systematic approach to understand the behavior of humans and other animals. It assumes that behavior is either a reflex elicited by the pairing of certain antecedent stimuli in the environment, or a consequence of that indivi ...

. He is the Director of the Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá (MISD) in Amazonas state, dedicated to protecting the

biodiversity Biodiversity is the variability of life, life on Earth. It can be measured on various levels. There is for example genetic variability, species diversity, ecosystem diversity and Phylogenetics, phylogenetic diversity. Diversity is not distribut ...

of the Amazon flood forest and the well-being of those who live there, through community management of the environment. Queiroz received his doctorate in 2000 from St. Andrews University,

Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...

, in Environmental And Evolutionary Biology, with the thesis "Natural history and conservation of

pirarucu The arapaima, pirarucu, or paiche is any large species of bonytongue in the genus ''Arapaima'' native to the Amazon and Essequibo basins of South America. ''Arapaima'' is the type genus of the subfamily Arapaiminae within the family Osteogloss ...

, ''Arapaima gigas'', at the Amazonian ''várzea'': Red giants in muddy waters". His advisor was the population biologist Anne E. Magurran. He has discovered and named a new species of

capuchin monkey The capuchin monkeys () are New World monkeys of the subfamily Cebinae. They are readily identified as the "Street organ, organ grinder" monkey, and have been used in many movies and television shows. The range of capuchin monkeys includes some t ...

(Queiroz, 1992). He currently (2013) works on Amazon flooded forest ecology, ecology and behaviour of Amazonian vertebrates, and

Indigenous Indigenous may refer to: *Indigenous peoples *Indigenous (ecology) In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often populari ...

hunting Hunting is the Human activity, human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to obtain the animal's body for meat and useful animal products (fur/hide (sk ...

. He is a graduate faculty member in zoology at the

Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi The Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, commonly shortened MPEG, is a Brazilian research institution and museum located in the city of Belém, state of Pará, Brazil. It was founded in 1866 by Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna as the Pará Museum of Natur ...

, and animal sciences at

Federal University of Pará The Federal University of Pará (, UFPA) is one of the Public university, public universities maintained by the Brazilian Federal government of Brazil, federal government in the States of Brazil, state of Pará. The university, with + 50,000 stude ...

State (UFPA), in

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Selected publications

*SOUSA, L. L.; QUEIROZ, H. L.; AYRES, J. M. 2006. The mottled-face

tamarin The tamarins are squirrel-sized New World monkeys from the family Callitrichidae in the genus ''Saguinus''. They are the first offshoot in the Callitrichidae tree, and therefore are the sister group of a clade formed by the lion tamarins, Go ...

, ''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.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." *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

External links

St-Andrews.ac.uk
- 'Dr. Helder Queiroz',

University of St. Andrews The University of St Andrews (, ; abbreviated as St And in post-nominals) is a public university in St Andrews, Scotland. It is the oldest of the four ancient universities of Scotland and, following the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, t ...

; Dr. Helder Lima de Queiroz - CVLattes - CNPq

Mamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development
{{DEFAULTSORT:Queiroz, Helder Brazilian zoologists Primatologists Brazilian biologists Brazilian scientists Living people 1963 births Alumni of the University of St Andrews People from Pirapora