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Overview

Júlio César Bicca-Marques is affiliated with the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on primate behavior, ecology, and conservation.

The main fields of study associated with their publications include:

  • Psychology
  • Environmental Science

Within these broader fields, their work delves into subfields such as:

  • Social Psychology
  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Molecular Biology

The topics covered most frequently in their research are:

  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • "Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world's primates from extinction," 2022, Science Advances
  • "Howler monkey tolerance to habitat shrinking: Lifetime warranty or death sentence?", 2020, American Journal of Primatology
  • "Primates Can Be a Rallying Symbol to Promote Tropical Forest Restoration," 2020, Folia Primatologica
  • "Wildlife is imperiled in peri-urban landscapes: threats to arboreal mammals," 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Factors influencing terrestriality in primates of the Americas and Madagascar," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

They have collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Paul A. Garber
  • Óscar M. Chaves
  • Sam Shanee
  • Colin A. Chapman
  • Vinícius Klain

Their research has been published repeatedly in several academic venues, notably:

  • American Journal of Primatology
  • Primates
  • International Journal of Primatology
  • Datasets - Sistema SALVE - ICMBio
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • How do Howler Monkeys Cope with Habitat Fragmentation

    Júlio César Bicca-Marques

  • Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation

    Alejandro Estrada;Paul A. Garber;Russell A. Mittermeier;Serge Wich

  • Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world’s primates from extinction

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  • Evolutionary Biology and Conservation of Titis, Sakis and Uacaris: Ecology and behavior of titi monkeys (genus Callicebus )

    Júlio César Bicca-Marques;Eckhard W. Heymann

  • Age-Sex Analysis of Activity Budget, Diet, and Positional Behavior in Alouatta caraya in an Orchard Forest

    Helissandra Mattjie Prates;Júlio César Bicca-Marques

  • Behavioral thermoregulation in a sexually and developmentally dichromatic neotropical primate, the black‐and‐gold howling monkey (Alouatta caraya)

    Júlio César Bicca-Marques;Júlio César Bicca-Marques;Cláudia Calegaro-Marques

  • Use of spatial, visual, and olfactory information during foraging in wild nocturnal and diurnal anthropoids: A field experiment comparing Aotus, Callicebus, and Saguinus.

    Júlio César Bicca-Marques;Júlio César Bicca-Marques;Paul A. Garber

  • The role of monkeys, mosquitoes, and humans in the occurrence of a yellow fever outbreak in a fragmented landscape in south Brazil: protecting howler monkeys is a matter of public health

    Júlio César Bicca-Marques;David Santos de Freitas

  • Do female tamarins use visual cues to detect fruit rewards more successfully than do males

    Nathaniel J. Dominy;Paul A. Garber;Júlio César Bicca-Marques;Maria Aparecida de O. Azevedo-Lopes

  • Locomotion of Black Howlers in a Habitat with Discontinuous Canopy

    Júlio César Bicca-Marques;Cláudia Calegaro-Marques

  • Exotic plant species can serve as staple food sources for wild howler populations.

    Júlio Cèsar Bicca-Marques;Cláudia Calegaro-Marques

  • Emigration in a black howling monkey group

    Cláudia Calegaro-Marques;Júlio César Bicca-Marques

  • ATLANTIC-PRIMATES: a dataset of communities and occurrences of primates in the Atlantic Forests of South America.

    Laurence Culot;Lucas Augusto Pereira;Ilaria Agostini;Marco Antônio Barreto de Almeida

  • Use of Social and Ecological Information in Tamarin Foraging Decisions

    Júlio César Bicca-Marques;Paul A. Garber

  • South American Primates

    Paul A. Garber;Alejandro Estrada;Júlio César Bicca-Marques;Eckhard W. Heymann

  • Howler monkey tolerance to habitat shrinking: Lifetime warranty or death sentence?

    Júlio César Bicca‐Marques;Óscar M. Chaves;Gabriela Pacheco Hass

  • Feeding Postures in the Black Howler Monkey, Alouatta caraya

    Julio César Bicca-Marques.;Claudia Calegaro-Marques

  • Dietary Flexibility of the Brown Howler Monkey Throughout Its Geographic Distribution

    Óscar M. Chaves;Júlio César Bicca-Marques

  • Feeding Strategies of Brown Howler Monkeys in Response to Variations in Food Availability

    Óscar M. Chaves;Júlio César Bicca-Marques

  • Predicting yellow fever through species distribution modeling of virus, vector, and monkeys.

    Marco A. B. de Almeida;Edmilson dos Santos;Jáder da C. Cardoso;Lucas G. da Silva

  • Wildlife is imperiled in peri-urban landscapes: threats to arboreal mammals.

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  • Vocal behavior of black-fronted titi monkeys (Callicebus nigrifrons): acoustic properties and behavioral contexts of loud calls.

    Christini B. Caselli;Daniel J. Mennill;Júlio César Bicca-Marques;Eleonore Z. F. Setz

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. Garber
Paul A. Garber University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Colin A. Chapman
Colin A. Chapman Vancouver Island University
Stephen F. Ferrari
Stephen F. Ferrari Universidade Federal de Sergipe
Shoji Itakura
Shoji Itakura Kyoto University
Mark F. Teaford
Mark F. Teaford RMIT University
Peter W. Lucas
Peter W. Lucas George Washington University
Mauro Galetti
Mauro Galetti Sao Paulo State University
Patricia C. Wright
Patricia C. Wright Stony Brook University
Eckhard W. Heymann
Eckhard W. Heymann Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Dario Maestripieri
Dario Maestripieri University of Chicago

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