Silvia Saldivar BellassaiItaipu Binacional · Áreas Protegidas
Silvia Saldivar Bellassai
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Land‐use change and overexploitation are major threats to biodiversity, and climate change will exert additional pressure in the 21st century. Although there are strong interactions between these threats, our understanding of the synergistic and compensatory effects on threatened species' range geography remains limited. Our aim was to disentan...
The Atlantic Forest in Paraguay has been severely affected by large-scale habitat loss and fragmentation, processes that have increasingly isolated its protected areas. Here we identified priority areas capable of maximizing connectivity between protected areas for multiple species while minimizing potential socio-economic conflicts in Paraguay's A...
Overexploitation is a frequently cited driver of species extinction. Throughout the Neotropics, balancing traditional practices and the needs of local people with protection of rare or declining species is challenging, especially given low capacity for control by authorities. We conducted interviews with wildlife professionals and residents, along...
Redlist for threatened species of mammals of Paraguay. Chapter related to Carnivora species.
Redlist species of threatened mammals of Paraguay: Cetartiodactyla and Perissodactyla, ungulates.
Este libro contiene información sobre la categorización de especies de
mamíferos del Paraguay. Introduce a los antecedentes de este tipo de
categorización de especies silvestres de nuestro país y explica la metodología
utilizada para la misma (UICN versión 3.1). Se describe para las especies
amenazadas su situación actual, las amenazas que enfrenta...
El pecarí del Chaco conocido localmente en Para-guay como tagua (Catagonus wagneri) es una es-pecie en peligro de extinción endémica del Chaco Americano, cuya situación se mantiene en dete-rioro como consecuencia de la pérdida y transfor-mación de su hábitat y de la caza excesiva en toda su área de distribución. Este trabajo presenta los resultados...
Abstract
The Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri), or Tagua, an endemic species living in the Chaco ecoregion, is endangered by highly increasing deforestation rates across the region, particularly
in the last decade. This situation highlights the need to better understand the current distribution of the species, as well as how environmental conditi...
