Game vertebrate densities in hunted and nonhunted forest sites in Manu National Park, Peru

Biotropica

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 251-261

  Endo, Whaldener ^a,b   Peres, Carlos A ^b   Salas, Edith ^c   Mori, Sandra ^c   Sanchez Vega, Jose Luis ^c   Shepard, Glenn H ^b   Pacheco, Victor ^c   Yu, Douglas W ^a,b  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

Author keywords

Bushmeat; Defaunation; Distance sampling; Forest vertebrates; Hunting; Indigenous people; Manu National Park; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMASS; BUSHMEAT; EXTINCTION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HUNTER-GATHERER; HUNTING; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LINE TRANSECT; NATIONAL PARK; NEOTROPICAL REGION; POPULATION DENSITY; PROTECTED AREA; REGENERATION; SOIL FERTILITY; TROPHIC CASCADE; VERTEBRATE;

MANU NATIONAL PARK; PERU;

AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77951196758     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00546.x     Document Type: Article

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