Figure 1.
Location of Caatinga biome in Brazil, protected areas in the Caatinga biome and the presence data used for modeling.
Table 1.
Environmental variables used for Species Distribution Modeling (SDM) for jaguar at Caatinga biome, Brazil.
Figure 2.
Marginal response curve of altitude, the variable that contributed most to the SDM of jaguar occurrence at the Caatinga biome.
Table 2.
Geographical databases used for connectivity modeling.
Table 3.
Classes of landscape layers and cost values for jaguar movement.
Table 4.
Priority Jaguar Conservation Units (PJCUs) identified in the Caatinga Biome.
Figure 3.
Jaguar distribution model and the Priority Jaguar Conservation Units (PJCUs) with high suitability areas (equal to or higher than the median suitability value of 0.595) (in detail).
Figure 4.
Cost surface for jaguar movement in the Caatinga biome with the Priority Jaguar Conservation Units (PCJUs).
The higher the value of the cost surface, the less permeable is the pixel for jaguar movement.
Figure 5.
Connectivity corridors and buffer zones for jaguar movement and dispersal among the Priority Jaguar Conservation Units (PJCUs) in the Caatinga biome.