Poachers Alter Mammal Abundance, Seed Dispersal, and Seed Predation in a Neotropical Forest

By S. J. Wright, H. Zeballos, Iván Domínguez, Mariana Gallardo, M. Moreno, R. Ibáñez. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Synergistic Effects of Subsistence Hunting and Habitat Fragmentation on Amazonian Forest Vertebrates (2001, background): “Populations of large-bodied Neotropical forest vertebrates are usually associated with significant negative density differentials between nonhunted and hunted forests (Peres 1990, 1996, 2000b; Glanz 1991; Bodmer et al. 1997; Cullen 1997; Mena et al. 2000; Wright et al. 2000).”
Hunting of Mammals Reduces Seed Removal and Dispersal of the Afrotropical Tree Antrocaryon klaineanum (Anacardiaceae) (2007, background): “Regrettably, throughout most of the tropics, anthropogenic hunting of seed-dispersing vertebrates may be disrupting these critical seed dispersal processes (Chapman & Onderdonk 1998, Wright et al. 2000, Roldan & Simonetti 2001, Wright et al. 2007).”
Rodent scatterhoarders as conditional mutualists. (2005, background): “…could help explain the significant variation in the outcomes of the interaction over small spatial scales and the inconsistent response when comparing fragmented and continuous landscapes (Hallwachs, 1986; Asquith et al., 1999; Wright et al., 2000; Chauvet, 2001; Feer and Forget, 2002).”
High seed dispersal rates in faunally intact tropical rain forest: theoretical and conservation implications (2001, background): “…and other animals responsible for seed dispersal were to become locally extinct, as is happening throughout the tropics (Chapman & Onderdonk 1998; Wright et al. 2000), and sadly beginning now at Gunung Palung, we would expect to see a reduction in local seedling diversity of up to 60% (because…”
Differential Responses to Hunting in Two Sympatric Species of Brocket Deer (Mazama americana and M. nana) (2008, methodology): “Second, we quantified the per-area number of park rangers and vehicles assigned to the protected areas when the surveys took placed as an indirect measure of law enforcement capacity (see Wright et al. 2000 for a similar approach).”
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of living in a defaunated world (2013, background): “…at the plot level (a few m 2 ) (Beck et al., 2013; Brocardo et al., 2013; Dirzo and Miranda, 1991), can scale up to the local level (Harrison et al., 2013; Wright et al., 2007; Wright et al., 2000), up to a regional level (Steinmetz et al., 2013), and to an entire ecosystem (Jorge et al., 2013).”
Poachers and Forest Fragmentation Alter Seed Dispersal, Seed Survival, and Seedling Recruitment in the Palm Attalea butyraceae, with Implications for Tropical Tree Diversity 1 (2001, methodology): “Spacing patterns within populations of a tropical forest rodent, Proechimys semispinosus, on five Panamanian islands.”
Seed survival and dispersal of an endemic Atlantic forest palm: the combined effects of defaunation and forest fragmentation (2006, background): “For example, in Attalea butyracea and Astrocaryum standleyanum, the proportion of seeds dispersed away from fruiting conspecifics was inversely related to poaching intensity, ranging from 0–10% at protected sites where mammals were abundant to 3–40% at unprotected sites where poachers were most acti”
Assessing recruitment limitation: concepts, methods and case-studies from a tropical forest. (2002, background): “Seed limitation has important consequences for population and community dynamics and for species diversity at multiple scales (Tilman, 1994; Hurtt and Pacala, 1995; Pacala and Levin, 1997; Zobel et al., 2000).”
DIFFERENTIAL RESOURCE USE BY PRIMATES AND HORNBILLS: IMPLICATIONS FOR SEED DISPERSAL (2002, background): “The reduction of primate abundance may alter seed dispersal, seed predation, and seedling recruitment for tropical plants (Wright et al. 2000).”
Conservation Biology for All (2010, background): “At the community level, seedling density in overhunted forests can be indistinguishable, greater, or less than that in the undisturbed forests (Dirzo and Miranda 1991; Chapman and Onderdonk 1998; Wright et al. 2000), but the consequences of increased hunting pressure to plant regeneration depends on”
Seed dispersal by a diurnal primate community in the Dja Reserve, Cameroon (2001, background): “The reduction of primate abundances may alter seed dispersal, seed predation and seedling recruitment for tropical plants (Wright et al. 1999).”
EFFECTS OF SMALL RODENTS AND LARGE MAMMALS ON NEOTROPICAL SEEDS (2004, background): “This is especially true in tropical communities due to the diversity of terrestrial seed-eating mammals and the complexity of their food webs (Wright et al. 2000, Brewer and Webb 2001).”