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Bogoni, Juliano A., Boron, Valeria, Peres, Carlos A. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1588-8765, Coelho, Maria Eduarda M. S., Morato, Ronaldo G. and Oliveira-da-Costa, Marcelo
(2023)
Impending anthropogenic threats and protected area prioritization for jaguars in the Brazilian Amazon.
Communications Biology, 6.
ISSN 2399-3642
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Abstract
Jaguars (Panthera onca) exert critical top-down control over large vertebrates across the Neotropics. Yet, this iconic species have been declining due to multiple threats, such as habitat loss and hunting, which are rapidly increasing across the New World tropics. Based on geospatial layers, we extracted socio-environmental variables for 447 protected areas across the Brazilian Amazon to identify those that merit short-term high-priority efforts to maximize jaguar persistence. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and comparisons of measures of central tendency. Our results reveal that areas containing the largest jaguar densities and the largest estimated population sizes are precisely among those confronting most anthropogenic threats. Jaguars are threatened in the world’s largest tropical forest biome by deforestation associated with anthropogenic fires, and the subsequent establishment of pastures. By contrasting the highest threats with the highest jaguar population sizes in a bivariate plot, we provide a shortlist of the top-10 protected areas that should be prioritized for immediate jaguar conservation efforts and 74 for short-term action. Many of these are located at the deforestation frontier or in important boundaries with neighboring countries (e.g., Peruvian, Colombian and Venezuelan Amazon). The predicament of a safe future for jaguars can only be ensured if protected areas persist and resist downgrading and downsizing due to both external anthropogenic threats and geopolitical pressures (e.g., infrastructure development and frail law enforcement).
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: The authors thank the WWF network for the financial support. The authors sincerely thank the Instituto Pró-Carnivoros (https://procarnivoros.org.br/) for the support. The authors thank Luísa G. L. das Chagas for her support in spatial data extraction. J.A.B. was supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) postdoctoral fellowship grants 2018-05970-1 and 2019-11901-5. Data availability: The data (including R code) that support the findings of this study are openly available online in the additional files (Supplementary Data 1, Supplementary Data 2, Supplementary Data 3, Supplementary Data 4, and Supplementary Data 5) of this manuscript. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | medicine (miscellaneous),biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology(all),agricultural and biological sciences(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2701 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Mar 2023 14:30 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Mar 2023 14:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/91445 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s42003-023-04490-1 |
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