birth_place awards nationality fields workplaces name birth_date known_for residence article_title citizenship alma_mater
belém , brazil `` time magazine -lrb- 2000 -rrb- & `` biodiversity conservation leadership environmentalist award '' -lrb- 1995 -rrb- leader for the new millennium '' by brazil brazilian tropical conservation biology university of east anglia , uk carlos augusto peres 1963 line transect studies tropical forest conservation and brazil-nut study norwich , uk carlos a. peres
 brazilian federal university , uk university of pará duke university , us cambridge
carlos a. peres

carlos augusto peres -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- born 1963 -rrb- is a brazilian field biologist and conservation biologist who works in the amazon and other neotropical forest regions on questions involving wildlife and biological conservation .
his research interests are in the large-scale patterns of large-bodied vertebrate diversity and abundance in amazonian forests ; the effects of different forms on human disturbance , including hunting , habitat fragmentation and wildfires , on amazonian forest vertebrates ; and reserve selection and design criteria in relation to regional gradients of biodiversity value and implementation costs .
he currently co-directs three research programs on natural resource management in eastern , southern and western amazonia focusing on the ecology of natural and heavily modified landscapes and their role in the retention of biodiversity .
