Establishing the relationship between non-human primates and mangrove forests at the global, national, and local scales.

ABSTRACT: Global and spatially explicit information about the interaction between habitat and wildlife species is critical to enhancing conservation efforts. Despite the recognized importance of mangrove forests to non-human primates, the relationship between the two lacks understanding. To counter this, we created the MangPrim-21 database to map and measure the locations of interactions between all non-human primates and all mangrove forests globally. We report our findings across the global, national, and local scales for all inventoried non-human primates and all inventoried mangrove forests. Globally, we find that half of all non-primates potentially use mangrove forests, and more than half of the global mangrove forest falls within the delineated range of at least one non-human primate species.

SUBMITTER: Hamilton SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9651587 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature