Hunting and persecution drive mammal declines in Iran.

ABSTRACT: The negative impacts of human activities on biodiversity are well documented. However, extinction risk studies incorporating direct human threats particularly direct killing remain limited. Here, we evaluate the potential role that direct killing through hunting and persecution, indirect human threats via land-use change, and environmental and species traits such as reproductive rate and trophic level among others, may play in driving mammal species to extinction. Based on data for 156 mammal species from Iran, we applied generalized linear models to investigate correlates of extinction risk for: (1) all mammalian species, (2) large- and (3) small-bodied species. We show that hunting vulnerability is the most important predictor to affect extinction risk across all species. We also found t

SUBMITTER: Yusefi GH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9588066 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature