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When roads appear jaguars decline: Increased access to an Amazonian wilderness area reduces potential for jaguar conservation

Roads are a main threat to biodiversity conservation in the Amazon, in part, because roads increase access for hunters. We examine how increased landscape access by hunters may lead to cascading effects that influence the prey community and abundance of the jaguar (Panthera onca), the top Amazonian...

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Autores principales: Espinosa, Santiago, Celis, Gerardo, Branch, Lyn C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5751993/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29298311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189740