This book reviews and synthesizes studies on local and regional occupancy and abundance of Neotropical mammals from central Mexico to South America. The book focuses primarily on addressing issues of a wide array of mammalian species from a population level in different habitats and ecosystems across the Neotropical region. Occupancy and abundance analyzed through hierarchical approaches with a variety of statistical tools are the central ecological parameters treated in the chapters of this volume. This book will be an updated reference for researchers, professionals, students, wildlife managers, and people interested in mammal ecology and conservation in tropical and subtropical regions.

¿Part I. Literature reviews.- 1. Introductory issues on hierarchical analysis of occupancy and abundance of the Neotropical mammals.- 2. Small wild felids of South America: A review of studies, conservation threats and research needs.- 3. Patterns of occupancy and density of the small felids of tropical America.- 4. ales from southern Brazil: hierarchical modeling of occupancy, abundance, and density of Atlantic Forest and Pampa mammals.- 5. Modelling the abundance and spatial distribution of the guanaco (Lama guanicoe) in Patagonia: a review and future perspectives.- 6. Survey methods and hierarchical modeling for Mexican primates.- 7. Abundance, density, and occupancy of ungulates in the Maya Forest: A review.- Part II. Case studies.- 8. Factors influencing habitat occupancy by the spotted paca (Cuniculus paca) in Oaxaca, Mexico.- 9. Jaguars (Panthera onca) in the Llanos of Colombia and Venezuela: estimating distribution and population size by combining different modellingapproaches.- 10. Using camera trap data to simultaneously estimate jaguar (Panthera onca) density and resource selection in the Paraguayan Dry Chaco.- 11. Abundance of Coimbra-Filho's titi monkey in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil: use of N-mixture models for acoustic playback survey data.- 12. Modeling density and habitat preference of the mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque) in northern Peru using spatial mark-resight and occupancy models.- 13. Interweaving scientific and local ecological knowledge through studying the salience of wild mammals in two protected areas in the Monte ecoregion of Argentina.- 14. Occupancy modeling reveals that landscape-scale drive habitat use by white-tailed deer in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve, Mexico.- 15. Overview of hierarchical models and future directions in the study of Neotropical mammals.