Fish and Fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon

Renato Silvano is associate professor at the Department of Ecology of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He also participates in the non-governmental organization Fisheries and Food (FIFO)since 2005. He got his Doctor degree in Ecology in 2001 at the University of Campinas (Brazil) and concluded a post-doc at the University of Queensland (Australia) in 2008. He does research on Applied Ecology, Fisheries management and ecology, Fish ecology, Human Ecology and Ethnobiology. He has lead 4 projects about fish and fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon. He has published more than 50 articles in peer review scientific journals and two books about Amazonian fish (in Portuguese). He has reviewed more than 100 manuscripts for scientific journals. He was awarded the honor mention: ‘Distinguished leadership and contributions’ from the Society for Human Ecology, in 2007.

• PART 1.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Studied regions and methodology.- 3. Small-scale fisheries, livelihoods and food security of riverine people.- 4. Conservation and environmental impacts in clear and black water rivers of the Brazilian Amazon.- 5. Fish ecology and evolution in black and clear water rivers of the Brazilian Amazon.- PART 2.- 6. Atlas of fish of Tapajos and Negro Rivers I: Orders Myliobatiformes, Osteoglossiformes and Clupeiformes.- 7. Atlas of fish of Tapajos and Negro Rivers II: Order Characiformes, Families Characidae and Curimatidae.- 8. Atlas of fish of Tapajos and Negro Rivers III: Order Characiformes, Families Anostomidae and Hemiodontidae.- 9. Atlas of fish of Tapajos and Negro Rivers IV: Order Characiformes, Families Serrasalmiadae and others.- 10. Atlas of fish of Tapajos and Negro Rivers V: Orders Siluriformes and Gymnotiformes.- 11. Atlas of fish of Tapajos and Negro Rivers VI:Order Perciformes.- Index.