The myriad consequences of hunting for vertebrates and plants in tropical forests

By Stephen J. Wright. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Bushmeat Hunting Alters Recruitment of Large‐seeded Plant Species in Central Africa (2010, background): “Reduction in their abundance should lower seedseedling predation in hunted sites (Wright 2003), leading to an overall increase of recruitment densities.”
The Bushmeat Harvest Alters Seedling Banks by Favoring Lianas, Large Seeds, and Seeds Dispersed by Bats, Birds, and Wind (2007, background): “Finally, poachers alter competitive interactions, by favoring larger seeds that already develop into larger, more competitive seedlings, and this too has the potential to reduce local diversity (Wright 2003, Dirzo et al. 2007, this study).”
Priority areas for the conservation of Atlantic forest large mammals (2009, background): “The cascading consequences of mammal hunting should be a key priority in future studies (Wright, 2003) and should be designed as part of a systematic ecosystem management plan.”
Biodiversity Regulation of Ecosystem Services (2005, background): “The high density and low species richness of these patches increases the abundance of insect herbivores and their parasites (Chapman and Chapman 1996; Dirzo 2001b; Wright 2003).”
The Plight of Large Animals in Tropical Forests and the Consequences for Plant Regeneration (2007, background): “Hunters persecute many species whose ecological interactions influence plant regeneration (Dirzo 2001, Wright 2003).”
Possible Indirect Effects of Mammal Hunting on Dung Beetle Assemblages in Panama (2007, background): “Moreover, hunting does not affect all mammal species equally, and an increase in the populations of some species could compensate in terms of dung production (Wright 2003).”
Big Fish are the Best: Seed Dispersal of Bactris glaucescens by the Pacu Fish (Piaractus mesopotamicus) in the Pantanal, Brazil (2008, background): “The effects of the extinction or decline of key frugivores on plant recruitment have been shown for several seed dispersal agents, mainly terrestrial birds and mammals (Bleher & Bohing-Gaese 2001, Wright & Duber 2001, McConkey & Drake 2002, Wright 2003, Galetti et al. 2006).”
Disturbance‐Mediated Drift in Tree Functional Groups in Amazonian Forest Fragments (2007, background): “Hunting can drive key populations of vertebrate seed dispersers to local extinction (Peres 2000) and consequently exacerbate dispersal limitation (Asquith et al. 1999, da Silva & Tabarelli 2000, Peres & Roosmalen 2002, Wright 2003).”
Bushmeat and the Fate of Trees with Seeds Dispersed by Large Primates in a Lowland Rain Forest in Western Amazonia (2007, background): “Overhunting also profoundly alters tropical plant dynamics (Dirzo & Miranda 1996, Wright 2003) with severe implications for conservation.”
Basin‐Wide Effects of Game Harvest on Vertebrate Population Densities in Amazonian Forests: Implications for Animal‐Mediated Seed Dispersal (2007, background): “Plant species that formerly relied on large-bodied vertebrates as seed vectors may succumb to low rates of dispersal and thereby suffer increased density dependent seed or seedling mortality (Jansen & Zuidema 2001, Wright 2003).”
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of living in a defaunated world (2013, background): “In a review published 10 years ago, Wright (2003) argued that defaunation studies should include more comparative studies to evaluate the first-order indirect effects of partial vertebrate defaunation.”
The Impact of Hunting on the Mammalian Fauna of Tropical Asian Forests (2007, background): “HABITAT LOSS AND DEGRADATION are such massive and visible threats to biodiversity in tropical Asia that the impact of hunting is sometimes considered secondary, at least in comparison with Africa and the Neotropics (Primack & Corlett 2005, Sodhi & Brook 2006).”
Testing predictions of the Janzen–Connell hypothesis: a meta-analysis of experimental evidence for distance- and density-dependent seed and seedling survival (2014, background): “For example, mammals, which tend to forage over large areas and be polyphagous, are less likely to contribute to Janzen–Connell effects than insects or pathogens (Wright 2003) and may cause a higher proportion of mortality at the seed stage compared to at the seedling stage (Paine & Beck 2007).”