Bicca-Marques, Júlio César (jcbicca@pucrs.br), Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Professor Bicca-Marques is PhD in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/USA. He studies behavior, ecology, cognition and conservation biology of New World monkeys and has published more than 150 journal articles and book chapters. He was President of the Brazilian Society of Primatology, Director for Research of the Latin American Primatological Society and member of the Conservation Committee of the International Primatological Society. Currently, he is Secretary General of the International Primatological Society, Member of the IUCN Primate Specialist Group, Member of the Advisory Board of the Brazilian Society of Zoology, Editor of the journal Neotropical Primates, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Primatology, Primates and Tropical Conservation Science and member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Primatology and Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment.
 

Recent publications

1. Bicca-Marques JC, Chaves ÓM & Hass GP (2020, online first) Howler monkey tolerance to habitat shrinking: lifetime warranty or death sentence? American Journal of Primatology (DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23089).
2. Chaves ÓM, Fernandes FA, Oliveira GT & Bicca-Marques JC (2019) Assessing the influence of biotic, abiotic, and social factors on the physiological stress of a large Neotropical primate in Atlantic Forest fragments. Science of the Total Environment, 690: 705-716 (DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.033).
3. Almeida MAB, Santos E, Cardoso JC, Silva LG, Rabelo RM & Bicca-Marques JC (2019) Predicting yellow fever through species distribution modeling of virus, vector, and monkeys. EcoHealth, 16 (1): 95-108 (DOI: 10.1007/s10393-018-1388-4; https://rdcu.be/bdKAT).
4. Estrada A, Garber PA, Mittermeier RA, Wich S, Gouveia S, Dobrovolski R, Nekaris KA-I, Nijman V, Rylands AB, Maisels F, Williamson EA, Bicca-Marques JC, Fuentes A, Jerusalinsky L, Johnson S, Melo FR, Oliveira L, Schwitzer C, Roos C, Cheyne SM, Kierulff MCM, Raharivololona B, Talebi M, Ratsimbazafy J, Supriatna J, Boonratana R, Wedana M & Setiawan A (2018) Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation. PeerJ, 6: e4869 (DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4869).
5. Chaves, Ó.M. & Bicca-Marques, J.C. (2017) Crop-feeding by brown howler monkeys (Alouatta guariba clamitans) in forest fragments: the conservation value of cultivated alien species. International Journal of Primatology, 38 (2): 263-281. (DOI: 10.1007/s10764-016-9927-8).