Spatial tools for modeling the sustainability of subsistence hunting in tropical forests

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1802-1818

  Levi, Taal ^a   Shepard Jr , Glenn H ^b,c   Ohl Schacherer, Julia ^c   Wilmers, Christopher C ^a   Peres, Carlos A ^c   Yu, Douglas W ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Ateles spp.; Brazilian amazon; Bushmeat; Community based conservation; Human inhabited protected areas; Lagothrix spp.; Protected area management; Source sink dynamics; Spider monkey; Sustainable hunting; Wild meat; Woolly monkey

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOINDICATOR; BUSHMEAT; GIS; HUNTING; LOCAL EXTINCTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; PRIMATE; PROTECTED AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FOREST; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATELIDAE; BRAZIL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; ATELINAE; BRAZIL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL;

ATELES; ATELES SP.; LAGOTHRIX; PRIMATES;

EID: 79960353336     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0375.1     Document Type: Article

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