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May-Collado, Marisol Amador-Caballero, José Julio Casas, Mónica Gamboa- Poveda,
Frank Garita-Alpízar, Tim Gerrodette, Rocío González-Barrientos Gabriela
Hernández-Mora, Daniel Palacios, José Palacios-Alfaro, Betzi Pérez, Kristen
Rasmussen, Lissette Trejos, and Javier Rodríguez-Fonseca, presents the state of art
of the cetacean research in these two countries. Another high topic is debated in
Chap. 13, “Anthropogenic Noise and Guiana Dolphins (Sotalia guianensis) in
Brazil: Ecological and Conservation Concerns,” by Fábio de Sousa Pais, Rafaela
Cardoso, Leonardo Wedekin, Dalila Martins, Flavio Silva, Emygdio Monteiro
Filho, and Marcos Rossi-Santos, discussing the occurrence of human disturbance
on the daily life of a marine top predator. Another great contribution to enlarge the
vertebrate diversity of this book is presented in Chap. 14, “The Atlantic Goliath
Grouper: Conservation Strategies for a Critically Endangered Species in Brazil,” by
Maurício Hostim-Silva, Áthila Bertoncini, Maíra Borgonha, Jonas Leite, Matheus
Freitas, Felippe Daros, Leonardo Bueno, Ana Paula Farro, and Christopher Koenig,
bringing the efforts for the conservation of one of the most endangered fish species
of the world. In Chap. 15, “Spreading Message in a Noisy World: Song Behavior
and Acoustic Ecology in Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), from the
Southwestern Atlantic Ocean,” Marcos Rossi-Santos presents the results of a longterm study of one of the most complex singers in the animal world. Chapter 16,
“Conservation Advances for the Southern Right Whales in Brazil,” by Karina
Groch, relates the victories and challenges of the efforts to understand and conserve
whales in Latin America since the 1980s. The last Chap. 17, “Behavior and Ecology
of Endangered Species Living Together: Long-Term Monitoring of Resident
Sympatric Dolphin Populations in South Brazil,” by Marta Cremer, Annelise Holz,
Camila Sartori, Beatriz Schulze, Renan Paitach, and Paulo Simões-Lopes, brings
the unique research that studies Franciscana dolphins in the wild along to Guiana
dolphins, in an important Brazilian bay ecosystem.
With this book, we would like to present to the world the efforts from Latin
American researchers in the search for high technological methods to achieve
enhanced results in the marine ecology and conservation science, and we hope that
it may be taken as an example for the future generations of investigators in the
developing countries worldwide. Come and join us in this amazing journey!
Praia do Forte, BA, Brazil
Marcos R. Rossi-Santos
Fletcher, NC, USA
Charles W. Finkl
Preface
May-Collado, Marisol Amador-Caballero, José Julio Casas, Mónica Gamboa- Poveda,
Frank Garita-Alpízar, Tim Gerrodette, Rocío González-Barrientos Gabriela
Hernández-Mora, Daniel Palacios, José Palacios-Alfaro, Betzi Pérez, Kristen
Rasmussen, Lissette Trejos, and Javier Rodríguez-Fonseca, presents the state of art
of the cetacean research in these two countries. Another high topic is debated in
Chap. 13, “Anthropogenic Noise and Guiana Dolphins (Sotalia guianensis) in
Brazil: Ecological and Conservation Concerns,” by Fábio de Sousa Pais, Rafaela
Cardoso, Leonardo Wedekin, Dalila Martins, Flavio Silva, Emygdio Monteiro
Filho, and Marcos Rossi-Santos, discussing the occurrence of human disturbance
on the daily life of a marine top predator. Another great contribution to enlarge the
vertebrate diversity of this book is presented in Chap. 14, “The Atlantic Goliath
Grouper: Conservation Strategies for a Critically Endangered Species in Brazil,” by
Maurício Hostim-Silva, Áthila Bertoncini, Maíra Borgonha, Jonas Leite, Matheus
Freitas, Felippe Daros, Leonardo Bueno, Ana Paula Farro, and Christopher Koenig,
bringing the efforts for the conservation of one of the most endangered fish species
of the world. In Chap. 15, “Spreading Message in a Noisy World: Song Behavior
and Acoustic Ecology in Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), from the
Southwestern Atlantic Ocean,” Marcos Rossi-Santos presents the results of a longterm study of one of the most complex singers in the animal world. Chapter 16,
“Conservation Advances for the Southern Right Whales in Brazil,” by Karina
Groch, relates the victories and challenges of the efforts to understand and conserve
whales in Latin America since the 1980s. The last Chap. 17, “Behavior and Ecology
of Endangered Species Living Together: Long-Term Monitoring of Resident
Sympatric Dolphin Populations in South Brazil,” by Marta Cremer, Annelise Holz,
Camila Sartori, Beatriz Schulze, Renan Paitach, and Paulo Simões-Lopes, brings
the unique research that studies Franciscana dolphins in the wild along to Guiana
dolphins, in an important Brazilian bay ecosystem.
With this book, we would like to present to the world the efforts from Latin
American researchers in the search for high technological methods to achieve
enhanced results in the marine ecology and conservation science, and we hope that
it may be taken as an example for the future generations of investigators in the
developing countries worldwide. Come and join us in this amazing journey!
Praia do Forte, BA, Brazil
Marcos R. Rossi-Santos
Fletcher, NC, USA
Charles W. Finkl
Preface