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Local and landscape contrasts of the occurrence of native and invasive marmosets in the Atlantic forest biome

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Habitat loss, fragmentation and invasive species are the major causes of biodiversity loss. In the Atlantic Forest, Callithrix aurita is threatened by habitat modification and the invasion of Callithrix jacchus. We evaluated how landscape variables and a local one, the distance to the roads, influence the presence of the native and invasive species within the distribution range of the native. For that, we retrieved data on the presence of C. aurita and C. jacchus from published papers. Comparing species, C. aurita occurs in higher altitudes and lesser urbanized areas than C. jacchus. In presence modeling, the probability of presence of the native C. aurita was higher within deforested landscapes with intense road traffic, while the presence of the invasive species, C. jacchus, was increased in urbanized areas, mostly in non-mountainous terrain, confirming its generalist habits. If such results are not related to biased detectability, C. aurita are living in suboptimal areas, and probably should be more affected by the presence of invasive species. These opposite characteristics of the species highlighted some regions in which conservation measures should be guided, where C. aurita is probably more present and the negative influence of C. jacchus is still limited.

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This study was supported in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001. CCG thanks Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq, 150808/2019-4) and American Society of Primatologists (Deb Moore Memorial Award Early Career Primatologists 2020).

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    Carla Cristina Gestich

  2. Universidade Federal de Alfenas, Instituto de Ciências da Natureza, Alfenas, Brazil

    Geanne Conceição de Souza, Érica Hasui & Rogério Grassetto Teixeira da Cunha

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. CCG and GCS retrieved the data from literature and databases. CCG filtered the data, extracted predictor and response variables and analyzed the data. RGTC and CCG led the writing. All authors discussed the results, commented on all versions, and approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Gestich, C.C., de Souza, G.C., Rosa, C. et al. Local and landscape contrasts of the occurrence of native and invasive marmosets in the Atlantic forest biome. Biodivers Conserv 32, 3379–3396 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02668-x

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