Communications Biology (Oct 2022)

Wildfires disproportionately affected jaguars in the Pantanal

  • Alan Eduardo de Barros,
  • Ronaldo Gonçalves Morato,
  • Christen H. Fleming,
  • Renata Pardini,
  • Luiz Gustavo R. Oliveira-Santos,
  • Walfrido M. Tomas,
  • Daniel L. Z. Kantek,
  • Fernando R. Tortato,
  • Carlos Eduardo Fragoso,
  • Fernando C. C. Azevedo,
  • Jeffrey J. Thompson,
  • Paulo Inácio Prado

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03937-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Destructive wildfires ravaged jaguar primary habitat, posing significant ecological threats to the species in the Pantanal wetland.