The effects of hunting on western Amazonian primate communities |
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| Author | |
| Peres, C. A. | |
| Year | |
| 1990 | |
| Secondary Title | |
| Biological Conservation | |
| Volume | |
| 54 | |
| Pages | |
| 47-59 | |
| Abstract | |
| Transect surveys were carried out in seven western Amazonian upland forest sites and compared with four additional sites to examine effects of hunting by humans on the structure of species-rich primate communities. Primate body mass was a strong positive correlate of its crude and metabolic population biomass in non-hunted but not in hunted sites. Primate body mass was a good negative correlate of population density in hunted but not in non-hunted sites. Group density was not clearly affected by hunting activity. Large primates had significantly lower group densities than small primates in both hunted and non-hunted sites. These trends are largely a consequence of differences in abundance of large-bodied genera (i.e.Alouatta, Ateles and Lagothrix), accounting for the bulk of the primate biomass in non-hunted sites, but being over-harvested or becoming extinct in sites hunted by man. | |
| DOI | |
| 10.1016/0006-3207(90)90041-M | |
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