Articles published by IPÊ researchers in 2025

BLACK LION TAMARIN CONSERVATION PROGRAM   

Securing black lion tamarin populations: improving habitat-based inputs and risks for population viability analysis to inform management decisions  

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/conservation-science/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2024.1423321/full   

Genetic monitoring in ex situ populations of the endangered primate Leontopithecus chrysopygus and integrative analyses with the wild founder population  

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0322817   

Lower Habitat Quality Increases Physiological Stress in an Endangered Neotropical Primate  

https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acv.70003  

CORRIDORS FOR LIFE  

Determinants of farm-level land use decisions and perceptions of associated ecosystem services in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest  

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rec.70089  

Organic carbon stocks across various land use systems in Sandy Ultisols and Oxisols in Brazil  

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352009425000094  

Landholders’ engagement in restoring Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is linked with livelihood compatibility and legal compliance  

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391521726_Landholders’_engagement_in_restoring_Brazil’s_Atlantic_Forest_is_linked_with_livelihood_compatibility_and_legal_compliance  

Management intensity does not affect the ecological indicators of coffee agroforestry systems in agricultural landscapes of the Atlantic forest zone in Brazil  

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10457-025-01201-z  

Monitoring the structure of restored forests and assessing aboveground carbon density through canopy metrics derived from digital aerial photogrammetry and LiDAR  

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rec.70077  

LOWLAND TAPIR CONSERVATION INITIATIVE – LTCI 

Using Digital PCR to Unravel the Occurrence of Piroplasmids, Bartonella spp., and Borrelia spp. in Wild Animals from Brazil  

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/14/6/567    

Nutrient Digestibility in Zoo-Kept Tapirs (Tapirus spp) as Compared to Other Herbivores  

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39828964/    

Healthy or unhealthy? Risk factors and biomarkers associated with exposure to infectious agents in wild lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris)  

https://connectsci.au/wr/article/52/10/WR25080/233503/Healthy-or-unhealthy-Risk-factors-and-biomarkers   

LIRA – INTEGRATED LEGACY OF THE AMAZON REGION  

Mismatch between investment in management and priorities for biodiversity conservation in Amazon protected areas. Biological Conservation Vol. 309   

 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320725003404  

PONTES PANTANEIRAS COALITION  

Special Section: The Pantanal: conservation challenges and opportunities  

https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/25784854/2025/7/7  

Land use and regulating ecosystem services scenarios for the Brazilian Pantanal and its surroundings under different storylines of future regional development.   

https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.70012 

ARMADILLO-CANASTRA   

 Wildlife hunting and the increased risk of leprosy transmission in the tropical Americas: a pathogeographical study  

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-025-01301-z   

First recorded birth of a giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus) under human care and notes on fetal characteristics and neonatal care 

 https://doi.org/10.29374/2527-2179.bjvm000325 ] 

Using Digital PCR to Unravel the Occurrence of Piroplasmids, Bartonella spp., and Borrelia spp. in Wild Animals from Brazil  

https://doi.org/10.3390/ pathogens14060567 

New Data on the reproductive lifespan of giant armadillos (Priodontes maximus) in the wild  

http://doi.org/10.4257/oeco.2025.2902.08   

When the giant rests: evidence of prolonged inactivity in the giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus) of the Pantanal  

https://doi.org/10.2305/PEYZ8754  

Addressing the urgent climate and biodiversity crisis through strategic ecosystem restoration in Brazil   

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.110972 

Pharmacologically assisted semen collection and sperm morphology assessment methods in wild six-banded armadillos (Euphractus sexcinctus)  

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anireprosci.2025.107851  

Divergence Across Niche Dimensions Reveals Species’ Ecological Roles  

https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70173  

Investigation of coronaviruses, paramyxoviruses, and poxviruses in free-ranging anteaters and armadillos: a search for the unknown in Brazil  

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-025-06415-1 
 

Catastrophic wildfires in the Pantanal wetlands as catalysts for transformative change   

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104273 
 

Unveiling microplastic and metal pollution in giant armadillos (Priodontes maximus) from areas impacted by human activities in the Rio Doce Basin, Brazil  

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2025.121380   

Knocking’ on armadillo’s door: Uncovering the use of an ecosystem Engineer’s burrow by the lesser anteater  

https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.70006