Emptying the Forest: Hunting and the Extirpation of Wildlife from Tropical Nature Reserves

By Rhett D. Harrison. 2011

218 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/695c0fd6475ad9b8f52344a76b568091c705bced

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In Ecological Modeling

1. Ana Benítez‐López
2. Aafke M. Schipper
3. Rob Alkemade

In Ecology

1. J. Poulsen
2. C. Clark

Citations in the corpus

• Vertebrate community composition and diversity declines along a defaunation gradient radiating from rural villages in Gabon (2017, background): “People have harvested the diverse vertebrate community of Central African forests for millennia, depending on wild meat for protein and to improve their livelihoods (Wilkie & Carpenter 1999; Fa, Currie & Meeuwig 2003); however, recently human population growth, more efficient weapons and greater acc”
• The impact of hunting on tropical mammal and bird populations (2017, background): “Overhunting within protected areas is ubiquitous across the Amazon, Africa, and Asia (8, 20).”