TY - JOUR AU - Torres-Romero, Erik Joaquin AU - Ceballos , Gerardo AU - Botello, Francisco AU - González Rojas, José Ignacio AU - Giordano, Anthony J. AU - López-Bao, José Vicente PY - 2023/02/22 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Jaguar conservation in the American continent: the role of protected landscape and human-impacted biomes JF - Revista de Biología Tropical JA - Rev. Biol. Trop. VL - 71 IS - 1 SE - Conservation DO - 10.15517/rev.biol.trop..v71i1.50507 UR - https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/50507 SP - e50507 AB - <p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Worldwide, expanding human activities continue to be a threat to many large-bodied species, including jaguars. As these activities continue, it is critical to understand how home range sizes will be impacted by human-modified landscapes. <strong>Objective:</strong> To evaluate the importance of protected and unprotected land on home-range size across their range. <strong>Methods:</strong> We used home range data from 117 jaguars in several habitat protection categories and human biome types. We used a Generalized Linear Mixed Model to test home range and spatial overlap with conservation categories and human biomes. <strong>Results: </strong>Most home-ranges were in Jaguar Conservation Units (62 %), followed by Protected Areas (21 %), Indigenous People's Lands (10 %) and Jaguar Movement Corridors (3 %), where 76 % of the jaguars lived inside one the first three conservation types. However, outside of conserved land, Rangeland, Cropland, Seminatural land and other human biomes were also important (24 % of the individuals). Jaguars in Rangeland, Cropland and Seminatural land had the largest home ranges.<strong> Conclusions:</strong> Although conservation land was dominant, human-impacted lands appear to play a considerable role in satisfying the spatial requirements of jaguars.</p> ER -