Measuring local depletion of terrestrial game vertebrates by central-place hunters in rural Amazonia.

ABSTRACT: The degree to which terrestrial vertebrate populations are depleted in tropical forests occupied by human communities has been the subject of an intense polarising debate that has important conservation implications. Conservation ecologists and practitioners are divided over the extent to which community-based subsistence offtake is compatible with ecologically functional populations of tropical forest game species. To quantify depletion envelopes of forest vertebrates around human communities, we deployed a total of 383 camera trap stations and 78 quantitative interviews to survey the peri-community areas controlled by 60 semi-subsistence communities over a combined area of over 3.2 million hectares in the Médio Juruá and Uatumã regions of Central-Western Brazilian Amazonia. Our results l

SUBMITTER: Abrahams MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5645145 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature