Discriminating between village and commercial hunting of apes

Abstract excerpt

Hunting is the major driver of large mammal decline in Central African forests. In slowly reproducing species even low hunting pressure leaves spatial gradients with wildlife density increasing with distance from transport routes and human settlements. Park management can use this pattern formation to identify sources of threats, but also to discriminate between different threat scenarios, such as the impact of su...

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• Endangered Species
• Feces
• Forests
• Models, Theoretical
• Pan troglodytes
• Population Density
• Uganda
• Y Chromosome

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Literature Corpus work

bf027045-aab4-5f45-9f21-26173eda4811

DOI

10.1016/j.biocon.2009.02.032