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Wildfires disproportionately affected jaguars in the Pantanal
The Pantanal wetland harbours the second largest population of jaguars in the world. Alongside climate and land-use changes, the recent mega-fires in the Pantanal may pose a threat to the jaguars’ long-term survival. To put these growing threats into perspective, we addressed the reach and intensity...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9561719/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36229543 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03937-1 |
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author | de Barros, Alan Eduardo Morato, Ronaldo Gonçalves Fleming, Christen H. Pardini, Renata Oliveira-Santos, Luiz Gustavo R. Tomas, Walfrido M. Kantek, Daniel L. Z. Tortato, Fernando R. Fragoso, Carlos Eduardo Azevedo, Fernando C. C. Thompson, Jeffrey J. Prado, Paulo Inácio |
author_facet | de Barros, Alan Eduardo Morato, Ronaldo Gonçalves Fleming, Christen H. Pardini, Renata Oliveira-Santos, Luiz Gustavo R. Tomas, Walfrido M. Kantek, Daniel L. Z. Tortato, Fernando R. Fragoso, Carlos Eduardo Azevedo, Fernando C. C. Thompson, Jeffrey J. Prado, Paulo Inácio |
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description | The Pantanal wetland harbours the second largest population of jaguars in the world. Alongside climate and land-use changes, the recent mega-fires in the Pantanal may pose a threat to the jaguars’ long-term survival. To put these growing threats into perspective, we addressed the reach and intensity of fires that have affected jaguar conservation in the Pantanal ecoregion over the last 16 years. The 2020 fires were the most severe in the annual series, burned 31% of the Pantanal and affected 45% of the estimated jaguar population (87% of these in Brazil); 79% of the home range areas, and 54% of the protected areas within home ranges. Fires consumed core habitats and injured several jaguars, the Pantanal’s apex predator. Displacement, hunger, dehydration, territorial defence, and lower fecundity are among the impacts that may affect the abundance of the species. These impacts are likely to affect other less mobile species and, therefore, the ecological stability of the region. A solution to prevent the recurrence of mega-fires lies in combating the anthropogenic causes that intensify drought conditions, such as implementing actions to protect springs, increasing the number and area of protected areas, regulating fire use, and allocating fire brigades before dry seasons. |
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spelling | pubmed-95617192022-10-15 Wildfires disproportionately affected jaguars in the Pantanal de Barros, Alan Eduardo Morato, Ronaldo Gonçalves Fleming, Christen H. Pardini, Renata Oliveira-Santos, Luiz Gustavo R. Tomas, Walfrido M. Kantek, Daniel L. Z. Tortato, Fernando R. Fragoso, Carlos Eduardo Azevedo, Fernando C. C. Thompson, Jeffrey J. Prado, Paulo Inácio Commun Biol Article The Pantanal wetland harbours the second largest population of jaguars in the world. Alongside climate and land-use changes, the recent mega-fires in the Pantanal may pose a threat to the jaguars’ long-term survival. To put these growing threats into perspective, we addressed the reach and intensity of fires that have affected jaguar conservation in the Pantanal ecoregion over the last 16 years. The 2020 fires were the most severe in the annual series, burned 31% of the Pantanal and affected 45% of the estimated jaguar population (87% of these in Brazil); 79% of the home range areas, and 54% of the protected areas within home ranges. Fires consumed core habitats and injured several jaguars, the Pantanal’s apex predator. Displacement, hunger, dehydration, territorial defence, and lower fecundity are among the impacts that may affect the abundance of the species. These impacts are likely to affect other less mobile species and, therefore, the ecological stability of the region. A solution to prevent the recurrence of mega-fires lies in combating the anthropogenic causes that intensify drought conditions, such as implementing actions to protect springs, increasing the number and area of protected areas, regulating fire use, and allocating fire brigades before dry seasons. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9561719/ /pubmed/36229543 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03937-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article de Barros, Alan Eduardo Morato, Ronaldo Gonçalves Fleming, Christen H. Pardini, Renata Oliveira-Santos, Luiz Gustavo R. Tomas, Walfrido M. Kantek, Daniel L. Z. Tortato, Fernando R. Fragoso, Carlos Eduardo Azevedo, Fernando C. C. Thompson, Jeffrey J. Prado, Paulo Inácio Wildfires disproportionately affected jaguars in the Pantanal |
title | Wildfires disproportionately affected jaguars in the Pantanal |
title_full | Wildfires disproportionately affected jaguars in the Pantanal |
title_fullStr | Wildfires disproportionately affected jaguars in the Pantanal |
title_full_unstemmed | Wildfires disproportionately affected jaguars in the Pantanal |
title_short | Wildfires disproportionately affected jaguars in the Pantanal |
title_sort | wildfires disproportionately affected jaguars in the pantanal |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9561719/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36229543 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03937-1 |
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