Integrating sustainable hunting in biodiversity protection in Central Africa: hot spots, weak spots, and strong spots.

ABSTRACT: Wild animals are a primary source of protein (bushmeat) for people living in or near tropical forests. Ideally, the effect of bushmeat harvests should be monitored closely by making regular estimates of offtake rate and size of stock available for exploitation. However, in practice, this is possible in very few situations because it requires both of these aspects to be readily measurable, and even in the best case, entails very considerable time and effort. As alternative, in this study, we use high-resolution, environmental favorability models for terrestrial mammals (N = 165) in Central Africa to map areas of high species richness (hot spots) and hunting susceptibility. Favorability models distinguish localities with environmental conditions that favor the species' existence from those w

SUBMITTER: Fa JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4221474 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature