Helder Queiroz

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birth_place = Belém, Brazil
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residence = Tefé, Brazil
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fields = Conservation biology
workplaces = Mamirauá Institute for
Sustainable Development
alma_mater = St. Andrews University,
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doctoral_advisor = Anne E. Magurran
academic_advisors = José Márcio Corrêa Ayres
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known_for = "Arapaima" conservation
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footnotes = M.Sc. 1994 UFPA, Belém; B.Sc. 1989 UNB, Brasília

Helder Lima de Queiroz is a Brazilian conservation biologist, primatologist, and fish behaviorist. He is the Deputy Director of the "Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá," in Amazonas state, dedicated to protecting the biodiversity of the Amazon flood forest and the well-being of those who live there, through community management of the environment.

Queiroz received his doctorate in 2000 from St. Andrews University, Scotland, in Environmental And Evolutionary Biology, with the thesis "Natural history and conservation of pirarucu, "Arapaima gigas", at the Amazonian "várzea": Red giants in muddy waters." His advisor was the well-known population biologist Anne E. Magurran.

He has discovered and named a new species of Capuchin monkey (Queiroz, 1992). He currently (2008) works on Indian hunting, ethno-zoology, ornamental and food fish conservation, and environmental education. He is a graduate faculty member in zoology at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, in Belém.

Publications

*SOUSA, L. L.; QUEIROZ, H. L.; AYRES, J. M. 2006. The mottled-face tamarin, "Sguinus inustus", in the Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve. "Neotropical Primates", Vol. 12, 121-122.
*QUEIROZ, H. L. 1992. A new species of capuchin monkey, genus "Cebus" Erxleben, 1777 (Cebidae: Primates) from Eastern Brazilian Amazonia. "Goeldiana, Zoologia" Vol. 15, 1-13.
* QUEIROZ, H. L. 1994. "Preguiças e Guaribas: Os Mamíferos Folívoros Arborícolas do Mamirauá". Brasília: Sociedade Civil Mamirauá & CNPq. 120 pp.
*QUEIROZ, H. L.; MAGURRAN, A. E. 2005. Safety in Numbers? Schoaling behaviour of the Amazonian red-bellied piranha. "Biological Letters of the Royal Society", Vol. 1, n. 2, 155-157.

External links

* [http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~guppy/people/hqueiroz.shtml St-Andrews.ac.uk] - 'Dr. Helder Queiroz', University of St. Andrews