Conhecimento ecológico local e biologia reprodutiva do Lagarto-de-folhiço Coleodactylus natalensis Freire, 1999, em área protegida da Mata Atlântica: subsídios à conservação desta espécie ameaçada
The difficulty of including the local community in conservation strategies is widely discussed, but it is even more worrying when it comes to species of small body size and cryptic coloration. In this context, taking into account that the leaf lizard is an officially threatened species, endemic t...
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| Resumo: | The difficulty of including the local community in conservation strategies is widely
discussed, but it is even more worrying when it comes to species of small body size and
cryptic coloration. In this context, taking into account that the leaf lizard is an officially
threatened species, endemic to fragments of the Potiguar Atlantic Forest, cryptic and
with small body size, to use it as a model to understand what people's knowledge of
small body sized species, can provide globally relevant data that support
ethnoconservation strategies. In this scenario, this study aimed to analyze the local
ecological knowledge (LEK) of the employees of an urban park in the city of Natal/RN
on the reptile fauna, especially on the lizard Coleodactylus natalensis, a flagship species
of this protected and threatened area of extinction, as well as investigating the
reproductive cycle of this species, in favor of its conservation and associated
biodiversity. Data on LEK were collected through semi-structured questionnaires
applied to 39 park employees, on conservation, herpetofauna, and ecology of the leaf
lizard. The employees demonstrated more specific knowledge about the local flora than
about the fauna, and they recognize the importance of the park for the conservation of
the species. Employees with longer working time in the park have higher LEK on the
cryptic and endangered species, C. natalensis; this data is of great relevance, as it is not
the pattern observed in other LEK studies. The threats to which urban parks are
subjected were also highlighted, including the differences between these and rural
parks. The collections of reproductive data of C. natalensis were carried out during
monthly excursions, from January to December 2021, totaling 12 months of sampling,
and in all months the eggs were monitored 15 days apart. The results demonstrate that
continuous reproduction occurs in C. natalensis, with a fixed litter of one egg. The set
of data obtained constitutes an important and valuable subsidy for the monitoring and
conservation of the threatened species, as well as for the management of this
Conservation Unit, in addition to corroborating the relevance of the LEK for the
conservation of threatened species from the perspective of ethnoconservation. |
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