Kilometre-scale jaguar swimming reveals permeable hydropower barriers: implications for conservation in the Cerrado hotspot
Leandro Silveira, Giselle Bastos Alves, Anah Tereza de Almeida Jácomo, Tiago Jacomo, Fabio Hudson Souza Soares, Gabriel Caputo de Carvalho, Lucas Gonçalves da Silva
This paper reports a jaguar's long-distance swim across a reservoir, demonstrating that large water bodies act as costly filters for movement and introducing a new aquatic-cost scale for connectivity models.
bioRxiv · Sep 5, 2025 · PreprintEcology