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 int ...
,
primatologist, and
fish
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behaviorist.
He is the Director of the
Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá (MISD) in
Amazonas state, dedicated to protecting the
biodiversity
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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
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Scotland
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, in Environmental And Evolutionary Biology, with the thesis "Natural history and conservation of
pirarucu, ''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 (Queiroz, 1992). He currently (2013) works on Amazon flooded forest ecology, ecology and behaviour of Amazonian vertebrates, and
Indigenous hunting
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. He is a graduate faculty member in zoology at the
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
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, and animal sciences at
Federal University of Pará
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State (UFPA), in
Belém
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.
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.
[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 ; Dr. Helder Lima de Queiroz - CVLattes - CNPq
Mamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development
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Brazilian zoologists
Primatologists
Brazilian biologists
Brazilian scientists
Living people
1963 births
Alumni of the University of St Andrews