Fig 1.
Location of Protected Areas (PAs): conservation units (dark brown) and indigenous lands (light brown), within the Amazon and Cerrado biomes. See Table 1 for PAs identification (ID).
Table 1.
Protected areas in the study area.
Instance, kind of usage, biome, extent area according to World Wildlife (www.worldwildlife.org), and priority according to MMA [71].
Table 2.
Points: number of records (4.5 × 4.5 km cells), AUC and TSS: mean values, and respective standard deviation values, ER/study area: estimated range in number of cells in the study area, ER/biome: estimated range in number of cells in the study area by biome (Amazon/Cerrado), %PA/biome: percentage of occurrence in protected areas, Status: conservation status according to IBAMA[59] and IUCN[72], and biome of occurrence.
Fig 2.
Species distribution models for the study area.
Estimated range of taxa from Amazon 1) and Cerrado 2) biomes.
Fig 3.
Distribution of protected range in relationship to total range size within the study area.
We observed a positive relationship between the total range and the protected range size of threatened taxa from Amazon (A), Cerrado (B) and all target species in the whole study area (C).
Fig 4.
Estimated species richness in relationship to protected areas in study area.
Fig 5.
Distribution of species richness in relationship to the size of each protected area individually.
A) Amazon biome and B) the whole study area.
Fig 6.
Priority areas for conservation.
Study area showing the currently existing protected areas and indicating new priority areas for conservation according to the estimated species richness in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes, separately. 1—Regions connecting APA Baixada Maranhense with indigenous land Alto Turiaçu; 2 –Extension of indigenous land Alto Turiaçu; 3—Polígono das Águas in southern Maranhão; 4—Southwestern Plateau; 5—Mirador/ Uruçuí; 6—Extension of the Maranhão semideciduous forest area, in central Maranhão.