About the Authors

Francisco Palomares

ffpaloma@ebd.csic.es

Affiliation Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biologica de Doñana, CSIC, Sevilla, Spain

Séverine Roques

Affiliation Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biologica de Doñana, CSIC, Sevilla, Spain

Cuauhtémoc Chávez

Affiliation Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Unidad Lerma, Lerma de Villada, México, México

Leandro Silveira

Affiliation Jaguar Conservation Fund, Mineiros, Goias, Brazil

Claudia Keller

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Rahel Sollmann

Affiliation Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Denise Mello do Prado

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Patricia Carignano Torres

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Begoña Adrados

Affiliation Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biologica de Doñana, CSIC, Sevilla, Spain

José Antonio Godoy

Affiliation Department of Integrative Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Sevilla, Spain

Anah Tereza de Almeida Jácomo

Affiliation Jaguar Conservation Fund, Mineiros, Goias, Brazil

Natália Mundim Tôrres

Affiliation Jaguar Conservation Fund, Mineiros, Goias, Brazil

Mariana Malzoni Furtado

Affiliation Departament of Preventive Veterinarian Medicine and Animal Health, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

José Vicente López-Bao

Current address: Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Riddarhyttan, Sweden

Affiliation Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biologica de Doñana, CSIC, Sevilla, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FP. Performed the experiments: FP SR CC LS CK RS DMDP PT BA MF. Analyzed the data: FP BA JVLB. Wrote the paper: FP. Contributed with the design of the genetic markers: JAG. Contributed with faeces sampling: AJ NT.