Habitat loss and overhunting synergistically drive the extirpation of jaguars from the Gran Chaco

By Alfredo Romero‐Muñoz, R. Torres, A. Noss, A. Giordano, V. Quiroga, J. Thompson, Matthias Baumann, M. Altrichter, R. McBride, M. Velilla and 2 more. Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity, 2018

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Understanding how habitat loss and overhunting impact large carnivores is important for broad‐scale conservation planning. We aimed to assess how these threats interacted to affect jaguar habitat (Panthera onca) between 1985–2013 in the Gran Chaco, a deforestation hotspot.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Social Psychology

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