Hélder Queiroz

Brazilian conservation biologist, primatologist, and fish behaviorist (born 1963)

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University of Brasília (B.Sc., 1989)
Federal University of Pará (M.Sc., 1994)
St. Andrews University (Ph.D., 2000)

Scientific careerFieldsConservation biologyInstitutionsMamirauá Institute for Sustainable DevelopmentThesisNatural History and Conservation of Pirarucu, Arapaima gigas, at the Amazonian Várzea: Red Giants in Muddy Waters (2000)Doctoral advisorAnne MagurranOther academic advisorsJosé Márcio Ayres

Hélder Lima de Queiroz (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɛwdeʁ kejˈɾɔ(j)z]) (born 1963) is a Brazilian conservation biologist, primatologist, and fish behaviorist.^[1]

He is the Director of the Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá (MISD) in Amazonas state, dedicated to protecting the biodiversity of the Amazon flood forest and the well-being of those who live there, through community management of the environment.^[2]

Queiroz received his doctorate in 2000 from St. Andrews University, Scotland, 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. He is a graduate faculty member in zoology at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, and animal sciences at Federal University of Pará State (UFPA), in Belém.

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.^[3]
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

^ Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Série ciências naturais - Volume 1, Numéro 1 - Page 258 Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil. Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia - 2005 "Hélder Lima de Queiroz : em prol da preservação da natureza. Foi um dos cientistas brasileiros mais premiados na área de Conservação da Biodiversidade, especialista em criação e gestão de Unidades de Conservação, ..."
^ 14 Jul 2006 – Hélder Lima de Queiroz ISDM abstracts.
^ 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."

External links

St-Andrews.ac.uk - 'Dr. Helder Queiroz', University of St. Andrews ; Dr. Helder Lima de Queiroz - CVLattes - CNPq [1]
Mamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development