Edna A. Contreras Aldana

• Biodiversity Journal, 11 (1): 021-024

  O. Eric Ramírez-Bravo, E. Evangelina Camargo-Rivera, E. Morales Manuel Osmar, Edna A. Contreras Aldana, Alejandro Pastén Sánchez, Patricio Cano Flores, C. Enrique Espinoza Pérez & Florencio Sixto Ramírez
  Community monitors as researchers: determining vulnerable species distribution in a protected area of central Mexico
  https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2020.11.1.21.24

  ABSTRACT
  We designed a training workshop in biodiversity monitoring and natural resources management and conservation for rural communities of the Hydrographic Basin of the Necaxa River Protected Area, aiming to increase active participation. We presented 2 cases in which participants documented 2 vulnerable species, increasing the distribution of margay, Leopardus wiedii Schinz, 1821 (Mammalia Felidae) and recording the persistence of neotropical otter, Lontra longicaudis Olfers, 1818 (Mammalia Mustelidae). These records proved that with proper training, community monitors could generate new information on biodiversity distribution, provide evidence to traditional knowledge, and produce data to improve protected area management.

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