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Carlos De Angelo

Carlos was a student at my 2005 course at the Escuela para

Graduados (FAUBA) en Buenos Aires. Since then we kept

contact and finally Carlos visited me in summer 2010.

Puma and jaguar

Since 2003 Carlos has been working with jaguar (Panthera onca) and puma (Puma concolor) ecology and conservation in the Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest (UPAF) in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. This is one of the planet’s most endangered eco-regions on account of its being highly fragmented. The main objective of this work is to analyze the impact of the fragmentation and land use change on the persistence of both felids. Between 2004 and 2009, he developed his PhD studies working on this project (http://sites.google.com/site/carlosdeangelo/home), which resulted not only in an updated distribution and habitat models for pumas and jaguars in the UPAF, but also in the development of new tools for studying these large carnivores. Additionally, a bidimensional model of habitat suitability allowed him to determine the probable spatial structure of the jaguar population and to detect priority areas to implement different management actions to preserve both, this species and the UPAF..

 
Foto Paviolo
 

Iberá Project
 

Though he continues his work with jaguars and pumas, Carlos is at present working on a new project in the Iberá Provincial Reserve in Northeast Argentina. He is using aerial surveys to study the whole community of large vertebrates (mainly marsh deers Blastocerus dichotomus, capybaras Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, caimans Caiman latirostris and C. yacare, and large birds), covering a wide region (more than 1 million ha). The Iberá region contains the largest marshlands in Argentina, with a heterogeneous landscape including many different natural environments and human land uses. His main goal is to understand the effects of landscape structure and change in this large vertebrates’ community through habitat models, not only to predict species presence, but also to infer abundance distribution and spatial population structure.
 

Río Carambola - Iberá - Argentina

Ciervo de los Pantanos