Barriers, corridors or suitable habitat? Effect of monoculture tree plantations on the habitat use and prey availability for jaguars and pumas in the Atlantic Forest

•Habitat use of jaguars and pumas was affected by anthropogenic landscape changes.•Some prey species were affected by pine plantations and related landscape changes.•Other species were not affected by plantations and could serve as alternative preys.•Pine plantations intermixed with forest patches could be corridors for these felids.•To improve habitat quality for these cats poaching activities must be restricted.