Cuba: Camagüey, Sierra de Cubitas - The Field Museum

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Centro de Investigaciones de Medio Ambiente de Camagüey (CIMAC) The institution’s mission is to develop and competitively market research and development projects, and scientific services, that support conservation and the management of natural and socioeconomic resources in the region, with the goal of sustainable development. In support of their environmental programs, CIMAC staff members conduct several types of research, including studies of biodiversity, the structure and function of ecosystems, management of protected natural areas and of the broader region, regional development, and the design and implementation of geographic information systems (GIS). CIMAC is an organizational unit of CITMA, the Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente. CIMAC’s structure consists of General Management and three Divisions: ■ Biodiversity and Function of Ecosystems ■ Regional Management ■ Information and Digital Cartography Centro de Investigaciones de Medio Ambiente de Camagüey Calle Cisneros No. 105 e/ Pobre y Angel Camagüey, Cuba 70100 53.322.96349 tel, fax cimac@cimac.cmw.inf.cu CUBA: CUBITAS ABRIL/APRIL 2006 61
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Our visit to the Sierra de Cubitas and the adjacent savanna was even briefer than the typical “rapid inventory.” Nevertheless, during the four days that we had in the field we registered new species for the site and for the region, and made a preliminary evaluation of the condition and distribution of the terrestrial habitats. Our data, combined with data compiled by biologists with the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (MNHN, in Havana) and the Centro de Investigaciones de Medio Ambiente de Camagüey (CIMAC, in Camagüey), allowed us to reach the basic goals of our inventory. Much of this information is published here for the first time. Our team of scientists thanks all of the collaborators who have shared data from their field studies and revisions of the literature. We are grateful to each and everyone who helped us before, during, and after the inventory. Although we name some individuals below, all who helped us deserve our warmest thanks. In Havana, Mariana Sáker, Yazmín Peraza, and Regla Balmori of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Cuba shared their friendship and organizational abilities. Reynaldo Estrada, of the Centro Nacional de Áreas Protegidas (CNAP), provided very valuable comments on the results and recommendations arising from our field work. The Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente (CITMA) helped coordinate access to the area and permission for us to collect specimens for Cuban museums. The Cuban Interests Section in Washington, D.C. kindly granted visas for North American participants. We thank our CITMA guides, Jorge R. Aguilar Pérez, Osmany Ramos, y Wilton Machado, who shared their knowledge of the area, and HAVANATUR staff for providing transportation to and from the Reserve. Dan Brinkmeier, Álvaro del Campo, Isa Halm, and Julie Smentek supplied logistical help in the frantic days prior 62 RAPID BIOLOGICAL INVENTORIES INFORME/REPORT NO. 08 to presentation of our preliminary results in Santiago and Havana. Robin Foster and Bil Alverson are indebted to Ramona Oviedo Prieto and Eddy Martínez Quesada for their generous help with plant identifications, using photos we took in the field. Sophie Twichell and Tyana Wachter successfully established the many elements central to the success of our work, making the difficult look easy. We thank Amanda Zidek-Vanega for her translations, and Eddy Martínez Quesada, Sara Thompson, Brandy Pawlak, Guillermo Knell, and Corine Vrisendorp for many hours spent gleaning errors and inconsistencies from the report. We are grateful to Courtney Platt (Courtney Platt Photography, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands) and Merlin Tuttle (Bat Conservation International, Austin, Texas) for allowing us to use their photos of bat species that reside in the Sierra. Thanks are also due Brian Cressman (Michigan Science Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan) for the use of his illustration of a prehensile-tailed hutia, to Gill Carter (Weslaco, Texas) and Lee Ellington (Lyford, Texas) for their photos of the butterfly Siderone galanthis, to John Dunning (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) for his photo of Worm-eating Warbler, and to Tim Barksdale and Andrew Farnsworth (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) for their photos of Cuban Parrot and Cuban Trogon. As always, Jim Costello and staff at Costello Communications were tremendously patient, creative, and helpful in getting the text and images into print. Finally, we sincerely thank John W. McCarter Jr. for his unflagging support and encouragement of the Environmental and Conservation Programs. Funds for this rapid inventory were provided through the generosity of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The Field Museum.
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Cuba: Camagüey, Sierra de Cubitas
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LOS INFORMES DE LOS INVENTARIOS BIO
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INTEGRANTES DEL EQUIPO EQUIPO DE CA
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PERFILES INSTITUCIONALES The Field
Page 9 and 10: AGRADECIMIENTOS Nuestro inventario
Page 11 and 12: RESUMEN EJECUTIVO Fechas del 16-19
Page 13 and 14: RESUMEN EJECUTIVO Resultados princi
Page 15 and 16: RESUMEN EJECUTIVO Principales recom
Page 18 and 19: JI La Habana CUBA Camagüey EP Kil
Page 20 and 21: 3B FIG.3A Bosque semideciduo sobre
Page 22 and 23: 4A 4B 4C 4D FIG.4A Muchas de las 50
Page 24 and 25: 6B FIG.6A Entre las 18 especies viv
Page 26 and 27: OBJETOS DE CONSERVACIÓN Objetos de
Page 28 and 29: Objetos de Conservación (continuac
Page 30 and 31: AMENAZAS 30 RAPID BIOLOGICAL INVENT
Page 32 and 33: Amenazas (continuación) 32 RAPID B
Page 34 and 35: RECOMENDACIONES Inventarios adicion
Page 36 and 37: serpentinosa) colindante al sur. No
Page 38 and 39: En el peniplano serpentinítico, ta
Page 40 and 41: estrato arbóreo dominante homogén
Page 42 and 43: acción antrópica: talas ralas y s
Page 44 and 45: ZONAS FLORÍSTICAS Resumimos la rep
Page 46 and 47: INTRODUCCIÓN Para la fauna de cuca
Page 48 and 49: Eurema amelia (esta última endémi
Page 50 and 51: AMENAZAS Y RECOMENDACIONES El majá
Page 52 and 53: Los 17 quirópteros constituyen el
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Page 62 and 63: MISSION The goal of rapid biologica
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Page 66 and 67: Main threats The size of the propos
Page 68 and 69: Why Sierra de Cubitas? Vast plains
Page 70 and 71: CONSERVATION TARGETS Conservation t
Page 72 and 73: Birds Mammals Human Communities The
Page 74 and 75: THREATS What threats oppose our vis
Page 76 and 77: or intense), such that the preventi
Page 78 and 79: Additional inventories and research
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Page 82 and 83: at 20-30 m. In the intermountain va
Page 84 and 85: epresented, while epiphytes, such a
Page 86 and 87: FLORISTIC RICHNESS AND ENDEMISM Par
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Page 90 and 91: native, and the remaining 2 are int
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Especies de hormigas (Formicidae) r
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Species of amphibians and reptiles
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Species of mammals recorded in the
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Fuentes, V. 2005. Goetzeaceae. En:
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