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      Data from: Increasing synergistic effects of habitat destruction and hunting on mammals over three decades in the Gran Chaco

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      Romero-Muñoz, A.
      Benítez-López, A.
      Zurell, D.
      Baumann, M.
      Camino, M.
      Decarre, J.
      Castillo, H. del
      Giordano, A.
      Gómez-Valencia, B.
      Levers, C.
      Noss, A.
      Quiroga, V.
      Thompson, J.
      Torres, R.
      Velilla, M.
      Weiler, A.
      Kuemmerle, T.
      Date of Archiving
      2020
      Archive
      Dryad
      DOI
      https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.wm37pvmjg
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      Increasing synergistic effects of habitat destruction and hunting on mammals over three decades in the Gran Chaco  
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      Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/2066/217806   https://hdl.handle.net/2066/217806
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      Environmental Science
      Audience(s)
      Biology
      Key words
      conservation planning; defaunation; deforestation; habitat loss; Land-use change; overexploitation
      Abstract
      Habitat destruction and overexploitation are the main threats to biodiversity and where they co-occur, their combined impact is often larger than their individual one. Yet, detailed knowledge of the spatial footprints of these threats is lacking, including where they overlap and how they change over time. These knowledge gaps are real barriers for effective conservation planning. Here, we develop a novel approach to reconstruct the individual and combined footprints of both threats over time. We combine satellite-based land-cover change maps, habitat suitability models, and hunting pressure models to demonstrate our approach for the community of larger mammals (48 species >1 kg) across the 1.1 million km² Gran Chaco region, a global deforestation hotspot covering parts of Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. This provides three key insights. First, we find that the footprints of habitat destruction and hunting pressure expanded considerably between 1985 and 2015, across ~40% of the entire Chaco – twice the area affected by deforestation. Second, both threats increasingly acted together within the ranges of larger mammals in the Chaco (17% increase on average, ±20% SD, cumulative increase of co-occurring threats across 465,000 km2), suggesting large synergistic effects. Conversely, core areas of high-quality habitats declined on average by 38%. Third, we identified remaining priority areas for conservation in the northern and central Chaco, many of which are outside the protected area network. We also identify hotspots of high threat impacts in central Paraguay and northern Argentina, providing a spatial template for threat-specific conservation action. Overall, our findings suggest increasing synergistic effects between habitat destruction and hunting pressure in the Chaco, a situation likely common in many tropical deforestation frontiers. Our work highlights how threats can be traced in space and time to understand their individual and combined impact, even in situations where data are sparse. Methods This data set was produced on the basis of habitat suitability models and hunting pressure models for 48 species of mammals across the Gran Chaco region. Details in the methods can be found in the paper (Romero-Muñoz et al. (2020) Ecography doi: 10.1111/ecog.05053). These data contains the rasters of the footprints of habitat destruction and hunting pressure for all mammals across the Chaco and their change from 1985 to 2015.
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