The distribution of bushmeat mammals in unflooded forests of the Central Amazon is influenced by poaching proxies.

ABSTRACT: Medium to large rainforest mammals are key conservation flagship groups that offer non-redundant ecosystem functions, but anthropic pressures, such as illegal hunting, may strongly affect their occupancy in Amazonia. We combined camera traps and occupancy models to assess the influence of distance from human settlements, the number of families per settlement and the synergetic effect of the average weight of 27 species on the occupancy probability of mammals. Specifically, we classified mammal species according to the game preferences of hunters (i.e. a group of species depleted for bushmeat, a group of species hunted for retaliation and a group of non-hunted species). We also accounted for the influence on the detection probability of each group of both the number of days each camera oper

SUBMITTER: de Souza Ferreira Neto G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10694382 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature