Reconstructing the degree of mammal defaunation throughout the Caatinga - the largest dry tropical forest region of South America

• Nathália Fernandes Canassa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nathália Fernandes Canassa, Célia Cristina Clemente Machado, Helder Farias P. Araujo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nfcanassabio@gmail.com (NFC); c.peres@uea.ac.uk (CAP)

  Affiliations Center of Exact Sciences and Nature, Graduate Program of Biological Sciences (Zoology), Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, Postgraduate Program of Biodiversity and Conservation, Federal University of Piauí, Floriano, Piauí, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1636-6280

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• Carlos A. Peres ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nfcanassabio@gmail.com (NFC); c.peres@uea.ac.uk (CAP)

  ¶‡ CAP also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, Instituto Juruá, Manaus, Brazil

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• Célia Cristina Clemente Machado ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nathália Fernandes Canassa, Célia Cristina Clemente Machado, Helder Farias P. Araujo

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center of Applied Biological and Social Sciences, State University of Paraiba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil

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• Helder Farias P. Araujo

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nathália Fernandes Canassa, Célia Cristina Clemente Machado, Helder Farias P. Araujo

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Department of Biosciences, Federal University of Paraíba, Areia, Paraíba, Brazil

  Affiliation Center of Exact Sciences and Nature, Graduate Program of Biological Sciences (Zoology), Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil

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