Bianca Pinto Vieira

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Bianca Pinto Vieira

Scientific knowledge has a well-established cycle of generating hypotheses, testing them in experiments with proper discussion, and submitting it to the scientific community analysis through publications. It takes time to establish sample size for biomedical studies, especially concerning the effect of medicines …

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What Do We Know About Black Skimmers? A Review on Its Annual-Cycle and Life-History Main Events

Bianca Pinto Vieira, Robert W. Furness, Ruedi G. Nager

The Black Skimmer Rynchops niger is a New World's coastal migratory bird with three subspecies based on distinctive morphometrics, plumage, and breeding distribution. Its population is decreasing in North America while numbers are poorly known in South America. Here we conducted an …

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Visual Observation to Identify Sexes in Subspecies of Adult Black Skimmers (Rynchops niger)

Bianca Pinto Vieira, Robert W. Furness, Ruedi G. Nager

Identifying sexes in birds from visual observations could be a useful and inexpensive method. While sexual dichromatism and ornaments are readily used by observers, sexual size dimorphism can also be used to identify sexes in some bird species. This study assessed the …

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Public engagement offers insights on the Eurasian red squirrel distribution

Rita Gomes Rocha, Bianca Pinto Vieira, Vanessa Rodrigues, Carlos Fonseca

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Collection, processing and freezing of equine bone marrow cells

Fernanda Zettel Bastos, Fernanda Cristina Mendes Barussi, Thasla F. Santi, Bianca Pinto Vieira et autres

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Influence of environmental changes on the resource use and abundance of Black Skimmers

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Understanding what environmental factors influence species’ responses is crucial for adequate conservation management and prediction of responses to climate change. My study focused on a widespread aquatic migratory bird in Brazil; the Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger). Throughout the thesis I investigated the …

Using field photography to study avian moult

Bianca Pinto Vieira, Robert W. Furness, Ruedi G. Nager

Methods to obtain moult data from wild birds have not changed much over the last century and most studies still depend on checking museum specimens or capturing birds. Here we assess the applicability of systematic field photography for detecting and scoring moult …

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GUIDELINES FOR MANAGING SEABIRDS IN THE ARVOREDO MARINE BIOLOGICAL RESERVE, SOUTHERN BRAZIL

Bianca Pinto Vieira, Patrícia Pereira Serafini

Seabirds usually need productive waters and respond differently to environmental changes according to the oceanographic domain where they occur. The Arvoredo Marine Biological Reserve protects part of an important ecological region in Brazil and shelters substantial marine biodiversity. Here we studied seabird …

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Guidelines for managing and monitoring seabirds in the arvoredo marine biological reserve, southern Brazil

Bianca Pinto Vieira, Patrícia Pereira Serafini

Seabirds usually need productive waters and respond differently to environmental changes according to the oceanographic domain where they occur. The Arvoredo Marine Biological Reserve protects part of an important ecological region in Brazil and shelters substantial marine biodiversity. Here we studied seabird …

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Biometric measurements for Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) subspecies

Bianca Pinto Vieira

This supplementary material contains a compilation of biometric measurements according to sex available in the literature for the Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger Linnaeus, 1758). It also contains the biometric measurements of specimens at the British Natural History Museum (BNHM) and at the …

Population trends and conservation of the Mangrove Rail

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The Mangrove Rail occupies only mangrove areas in South America. Tough present in one of the most endangered forests in the world, there is little data available on the Mangrove Rail. In this paper, I present local population trends and the latest …

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Critical steps to ensure the successful reintroduction of the Eurasian red squirrel

Bianca Pinto Vieira, Carlos Fonseca, Rita Gomes Rocha

Wildlife reintroduction strategies aim to establish viable long–term populations, promote conservation awareness and provide economic benefits for local communities. In Portugal, the Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) became extinct in the 16th century and was reintroduced in urban parks in the 1990s, …

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