TEAM Monitoring Advances in BrazilMarch 19, 2004 Caxiuanã Field Station,Brazil - Last November Brazil's Estação Científica Ferreira Penna celebrated its first full year of data collection using the TEAM monitoring protocols . Also known as Caxiuanã, this TEAM field station has been an important pilot site, providing TEAM's DC staff with much useful feedback about the protocols. According to Juarez "Juca" Pezzutti, Caxiuanã Field Station Coordinator, the station has now implemented the TEAM protocols for vegetation, ants, butterflies, birds, primates, and terrestrial vertebrates and is ready to begin compiling data, monitoring changes, and registering new species. As he explained, "TEAM-Caxiuanã now involves more than 30 people in field work, and supports data collection for the production of undergraduate monographies, master's dissertations, and doctoral theses. Some results were presented in two important national events in Brazil, and I am sure we will see much more in the near future." Ivanei Souza Araújo and William Overal presented the results of two studies on Army Ants in Caxiuanã at the 25th Brasilian Zoological Congress in Brasília, Brasil, February 9 through 13, 2004. Anne Caroline Pantoja de Sousa and William Overal presented their study, Butterflies from the Estação Científica Ferreira Penna in the FLONA de Caxiuanã. Both studies cited data gathered for the TEAM Scientific Monitoring Protocols. |

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