[PDF] Top 20 Jaguar (Panthera onca Linnaeus, 1758) roadkill in Brazilian Atlantic Forest and implications for species conservation

... the roadkill of big cats are viewed as sporadic events in the BR-101 Highway, the negative effect of the loss of a single specimen is serious enough for the local population of jaguars, which is extremely ... See full document

... The jaguar (Panthera onca Linnaeus, 1758) is the largest cat in the ...the species is considered extinct in part of its original distribution (SANDERSON et ...2002). In Brazil, the most ... See full document

... diversity in individuals from south Bra- zil was lower than that found for previously analyzed South American mountain-lion populations (Table ...studies in South America, since different sets of ... See full document

... tree species occurrence and geoclimatic data from 59 sites in a river basin in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil to ordination, ANOVA, and cluster analyses with ... See full document

... ecoregions in the relative frequencies ...of species in habitats (Wilcoxon test, Z = ...26 species pairs). However, estimated abun- dances differed for some species when the two ... See full document

... The species richness estimators are consistent with this assumption. In contrast, in RVSU, the singleton and doubleton curves suggest that the species inventory is still far from being ... See full document

... of species has become an important problem for biodiversity and natural ecosystem ...various conservation states, of which 50 are located within the Rio Doce State Park ...introductions and ... See full document

... The Brazilian Atlantic forest (BAF) is one of 25 biodiversity hotspots given priority for conservation (Myers et ...(Morellato and Haddad, 2000; Ribeiro et ...trialization and ... See full document

... The Atlantic Forest is a biodiversity hotspot due to its species richness, number of endemic species, and degree of threat (Mittermeier et ...biomes in Brazil, it presents the ... See full document

... case in which an AS could potentially work as reproductive trap for ...2006), and we provide new evidences that benefits envisioned for ASs as buffer zones must focus on avoiding soil erosion, reducing ... See full document

... our species richness estimate showed that we missed between 2 and 14 species we also expect further studies to add to the list of threatened species within the ...recorded in the ... See full document

... different forest physiognomies within the Southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest constitute different facies of a single biome, we hypothesize that more recent phylogenetic nodes should drive ... See full document

... conducted in areas of continuous forest of the BAF in the state of Paraná, southern Brazil, covering the three forest types: MF, DF and ...respective forest types in the ... See full document

... montane and submontane Atlantic For- est in four contiguous municipalities in the south- ern part of the state, including an insular remnant (Ilha ...km² and AOO of 44 km², and ... See full document

... Northeast and Central Brazil to central-southern Uruguay and it was subject of few studies in a population ...the species using the mitochondrial molecular marker cytochrome oxidase c subunit ... See full document

... coastal Brazilian Atlantic Forest south of the São Francisco River, a region with a long tradition of ...for conservation planning, the population of a site in southern Sergipe (with a ... See full document

... faster and at lower costs than conventional surveys, providing quick and efficient responses that can facilitate protected areas ...understory and quantified lianas and tree ferns in ... See full document

... removed) and the two compartments (slopes and lowlands) were compared, a different distribution of land cover and land use classes was observed (Figure 3, Table ...ha and 100,535.27 ha, ... See full document

... Further species probably occur in the SBNP and region, those specially surveyed by interviews, such as the Jaguar Panthera onca and Three-banded armadillo Tolypeutes matacus, which are ... See full document

... recognized species varied a lot. The concept of species has been central in Biology and the species still considered the fundamental unit of biological studies in many different ... See full document