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Stephen F. Ferrari is affiliated with Universidade Federal de Sergipe in Brazil and specializes primarily in Environmental Science. Their research encompasses several subfields including Ecology, Social Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Microbiology.

The scientist's work prominently addresses topics such as Primate Behavior and Ecology, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Reproductive Tract Infections Research, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Raone Beltrão-Mendes, Leonardo Miranda dos Santos, Edna Aoba Yassui Ishikawa, Maísa Silva de Sousa, and Patrício Adriano da Rocha. This collaboration network reflects multidisciplinary interactions across ecological and health sciences.

Stephen F. Ferrari has contributed to publications in multiple scientific venues, with repeated appearances in PLoS ONE, the International Journal of Primatology, Mastozoología Neotropical, Evolution Education and Outreach, and Neotropical Primates.

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on ecological and disease-related research. Notable publications include:

  • Fragment size and the disassembling of local bird communities in the Atlantic Forest: A taxonomic and functional approach (2020, Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation)
  • High prevalence of sexual infection by human papillomavirus and Chlamydia trachomatis in sexually-active women from a large city in the Amazon region of Brazil (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • Rapid survey of bats (Chiroptera) in the Atlantic Forest in eastern Sergipe, Brazil: unexpected diversity in a fragmented landscape (2020, Neotropical Biology and Conservation)
  • Spontaneous ingestion of water by a free-ranging maned sloth, Bradypus torquatus, in the Ibura National Forest, northeastern Brazil (2021, Behaviour)
  • The Density of Callicebus coimbrai is Better Predicted by Vegetation Structure Variables than by Surrounding Landscape (2022, International Journal of Primatology)

Best Publications

  • Behavior patterns of southern bearded sakis (Chiropotes satanas) in the fragmented landscape of eastern Brazilian Amazonia.

    Suleima S. B. Silva;Stephen F. Ferrari

  • Effects of human colonization on the abundance and diversity of mammals in eastern Brazilian Amazonia.

    M. Aparecida Lopes;Stephen F. Ferrari

  • A re-evaluation of the social organisation of the Callitrichidae, with reference to the ecological differences between genera.

    S. F. Ferrari;M. A. Lopes Ferrari

  • Multiple breeding females in free-ranging groups of Callithrix jacchus

    Leslie J. Digby;Stephen F. Ferrari

  • Predator avoidance behaviour in the buffy-headed marmoset, Callithrix flaviceps

    Stephen Francis Ferrari;Maria Aparecida Lopes Ferrari

  • Evolutionary Biology and Conservation of Titis, Sakis and Uacaris

    Liza M. Veiga;Adrian A. Barnett;Stephen F. Ferrari;Marilyn A. Norconk

  • Wild Callithrix Groups: Stable Extended Families?

    Stephen F. Ferrari;Leslie J. Digby

  • Predation Risk and Antipredator Strategies

    Stephen F. Ferrari

  • Habitat use by Chiropotes satanas utahicki and syntopic platyrrhines in eastern Amazonia

    Urbano L. Bobadilla;Urbano L. Bobadilla;Stephen F. Ferrari

  • Forest structure drives global diversity of primates

    Sidney F. Gouveia;Fabricio Villalobos;Ricardo Dobrovolski;Raone Beltrão‐Mendes

  • Food transfer in a wild marmoset group.

    S.F. Ferrari

  • Habitat use by Callicebus coimbrai (Primates: Pitheciidae) and sympatric species in the fragmented landscape of the Atlantic Forest of southern Sergipe, Brazil

    Renata Rocha Déda Chagas;Stephen Francis Ferrari

  • The behaviour and ecology of the buffy-headed marmoset, Callithrix flaviceps (O. Thomas, 1903)

    Stephen Francis Ferrari

  • Seed dispersal by black-handed tamarins, Saguinus midas niger (Callitrichinae, Primates): implications for the regeneration of degraded forest habitats in eastern Amazonia

    Ana Cristina M. Oliveira;Stephen F. Ferrari

  • Predation of an infant titi monkey (Callicebus moloch) by a tufted capuchin (Cebus apella)

    Daniela T. Sampaio;Stephen F. Ferrari

  • Reconsidering the taxonomy of the Black-Faced Uacaris, Cacajao melanocephalus group (Mammalia: Pitheciidae), from the northern Amazon Basin.

    Stephen F. Ferrari;Patrícia G. Guedes;Wilsea M.B. Figueiredo-Ready;Adrian A. Barnett

  • Diet of a free-ranging group of squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) in eastern Brazilian Amazonia.

    Eldianne M. Lima;Stephen F. Ferrari

  • The care of infants in a wild marmoset (Callithrix flaviceps) group.

    Stephen F. Ferrari;Stephen F. Ferrari

  • Dense understory and absence of capuchin monkeys (Sapajus xanthosternos) predict higher density of common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) in the Brazilian Northeast.

    Renato R. Hilário;Stephen F. Ferrari;Stephen F. Ferrari

  • Genetic structure of red-handed howler monkey populations in the fragmented landscape of Eastern Brazilian Amazonia

    Heitor B Bastos;Evonnildo C Goncalves;Stephen F Ferrari;Artur Silva

  • 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

  • Terrestrial Activity in Pitheciins (Cacajao, Chiropotes, and Pithecia)

    Adrian A. Barnett;Sarah A. Boyle;Sarah A. Boyle;Marilyn M. Norconk;Suzanne Palminteri

Frequent Co-Authors

Iracilda Sampaio
Iracilda Sampaio Federal University of Para
Júlio César Bicca-Marques
Júlio César Bicca-Marques Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
Eckhard W. Heymann
Eckhard W. Heymann Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Carlos A. Peres
Carlos A. Peres University of East Anglia
Patricia C. Wright
Patricia C. Wright Stony Brook University
Karen B. Strier
Karen B. Strier University of Wisconsin–Madison
Torbjørn Haugaasen
Torbjørn Haugaasen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Roscoe Stanyon
Roscoe Stanyon University of Florence
Anthony Di Fiore
Anthony Di Fiore The University of Texas at Austin
Gustavo Graciolli
Gustavo Graciolli Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul

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