Bushmeat and the Fate of Trees with Seeds Dispersed by Large Primates in a Lowland Rain Forest in Western Amazonia

By Gabriela Nuñez-Iturri, H. Howe. 2007

167 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Social Psychology

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In Ecology

1. Rhett D. Harrison
2. N. Sodhi
3. P. Forget
4. B. Bellé
5. Hadrien P. A. Vanthomme
6. Ola Olsson
7. Gabriela Nuñez-Iturri
8. H. Howe

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Rhett D. Harrison
2. P. Forget
3. B. Bellé
4. Hadrien P. A. Vanthomme
5. Ola Olsson
6. N. Sodhi
7. Gabriela Nuñez-Iturri
8. H. Howe

In Social Psychology

1. Rhett D. Harrison
2. J. Lambert
3. P. Forget
4. B. Bellé
5. Hadrien P. A. Vanthomme
6. Ola Olsson
7. J. Rothman
8. M. Wasserman

Citations in the corpus

• Hunting reduces recruitment of primate-dispersed trees in Amazonian Peru (2008, methodology): “Small juveniles beneath parent trees were analyzed with a different method at three sites in a pilot study (Nunez-Iturri and Howe, 2007).”
• Emptying the Forest: Hunting and the Extirpation of Wildlife from Tropical Nature Reserves (2011, background): “…many of the slower-growing canopy trees, is often inhibited relative to that of plants with smaller or abiotically dispersed seeds (McConkey and Drake 2006, Nuñez-Iturri and Howe 2007, Wang et al. 2007, Terborgh et al. 2008, Brodie et al. 2009, Holbrook and Loiselle 2009, Sethi and Howe 2009).”
• Conservation Biology for All (2010, background): “Consequently, plant species with seeds dispersed by vulnerable game species are less abundant where hunters are active, whereas species with seeds dispersed by abiotic means or by small frugivores ignored by hunters are more abundant in the seedling and sapling layers (Nuñez-Iturri and Howe 2007; Wr”
• Forest Elephants: Tree Planters of the Congo (2009, background): “…focused on topdown control of herbivores by carnivores (Terborgh 1992), the role of large vertebrates in the regeneration of plant communities (particularly as seed dispersers) has recently dominated the debate (Janzen 1986, Chapman & Onderdonk 1998, Nunez-Iturri & Howe 2007, Wright et al. 2007).”
• Rapid evaluation of threats to biodiversity: human footprint score and large vertebrate species responses in French Guiana (2010, background): “In contrast, a significant decrease of key seed-dispersal agents in the remaining 30% likely limit the extent of seed deposition patterns (Nuñez-Iturri and Howe 2007), resulting in lower levels of seedling recruitment (Peres and van Roosmalen 2002) and consequently altering forest dynamics.”
• Bushmeat Hunting Alters Recruitment of Large‐seeded Plant Species in Central Africa (2010, methodology): “Although other studies in the neotropics (Guariguata & Pinard 1998, Nuñez-Iturri & Howe 2007, Stoner et al. 2007, Terborgh et al. 2008) and in tropical Asia (Corlett 2007) are in agreement with our results, Wright et al. (2007a) found the oppo- site pattern in Panama concluding that ‘hunters favor…”
• Are Primates Ecosystem Engineers? (2012, background): “…however, because primates have so often been stated to be critical in forest regeneration patterns (Kaplin and Lambert 2002; Lambert and Garber 1998; Nunes-Iturri and Howe 2007; Pacheco and Simonetti 2000) , we take a broader definition and evaluate primate seed dispersers as ecosystem engineers.”