Mariana Altrichter
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Mariana, Argentinean native, received her Masters in wildlife management in Costa Rica and her PhD in Natural Resources and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Mariana taught at the University of Arizona, the University of Redlands, and the Organization for Tropical Studies (University of Duke). Since 2011 she has been teaching undergraduate courses in environmental studies at Prescott College. Mariana has an active international research agenda focusing on conservation of biodiversity, and indigenous people and environment interactions, with over 50 scientific publications. Her recent research projects include the use and conservation of wildlife in an Indigenous Reserve in Costa Rica, the effects of economic policies on biodiversity and local peasants´ livelihoods in the Argentine Chaco and the conservation status of peccaries in Latin America. She also directs an environmental education program in Prescott, and she is co-leading the ecological restoration efforts of the Riparian forest of Butte Creek in the Prescott College campus.
Research:
- Wildlife ecology and conservation
- Community-based conservation
- Indigenous people’s land rights and environmental conservation
- Ecological Restoration
Teaching;
- Conservation biology
- Restoration ecology
- Environmental Education
Camino, M., Altrichter, M. et al. In Press. Proyecto Quimilero: Integrating scientific research with communities and participatory conservation in the Argentine Chaco. Journal of Sustainability Education; Community Engaged and Critical Research special issue.
1. Camino, M., Altrichter, M. et al. 2023. Indigenous Lands with secure land tenure can reduce forest loss in deforestation hotspots. Global Environmental Change 81, 102678, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102678
2. Torres et al. 2023. Partitioning the effects of habitat loss, hunting, and climate change on the endangered Chacoan peccary. Diversity and Distributions 00: 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13701
3. Fragoso , M.V. et al. Altrichter, M. 2022. Large-scale population disappearances and cycling in the white-lipped peccary, a tropical forest mammal. PLOS ONE 17. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0276297.
4. Camino, M., J. Thompson, P. Velasco-Aceves, S. Cirignoli, R. Tiddi, S. Cortez, S.D. Matteucci, & M. Altrichter. 2022. Less than six generations to save the chacoan peccary. Biodiversity and Conservation DOI 10.1007/s10531-021-02337-x.
5. Caruso, F., P. Perovic, A. Talamo, C. Sillero, & M. Altrichter. 2021. Human-jaguars coexistence: social factors influencing jaguar conservation in Southern Bolivia. Kempffiana 17:1-17. (ISSN: 1991-4644).
6. Briceno-Mendez, M., Naranjo, E. & M. Altrichter. 2021. Habitat occupation by peccary Tayassu pecari and Pecari tajacu (Artiodactyla: Tayassuidae) in the Calakmul region, Campeche, Mexico. Suiform Soundings 20:45-54.
7. Briceno-Mendez, Naranjo, M, Altrichter, M. 2021. Habitat occupation by peccary Tayassu pecari and Pecari tajacu (Artiodactyla: Tayassuidae) in the Calakmul region, Campeche, Mexico. Souiform Soundings 20: 45-54.
8. Hurtado, C., Beck, H. Thebpanya, P. & Altrichter, M. 2020. Spatial patterns of the first groups of collared peccaries (Pecari tajacu) reintroduced in South America. Tropical Ecology (2020) 61:400–411.
9. Camino, M. Altrichter, M. 2020. Using local ecological knowledge to improve large terrestrial mammal surveys, build local capacity and increase conservation opportunities. Biological Conservation, 244, 108450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108450
10. Caruso, F., M. Altrichter et al. 2020. Humans and Jaguars-New insights into the role of social factors in an old conflict. Oryx 54: 678-686.