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Informal supply chains of wild meat from rural Amazonia and food security in an urban centerNARA Subscribed
Iquitos, the most populated city in the Peruvian Amazon, is a hub in the regional supply chain of wild meat and supplies urban consumers. Studies on wild meat consumption have focused primarily on markets, limiting the scope of species considered to those that are economically valuable and potential inferences from those data. We conducted interviews with 1548 households in Iquitos across all four districts to assess wild meat...
All primate species produce vocalizations for complex communication, conveying a wide range of information, regulating social interactions, coordinating activities, and serving as antipredator strategies. Together, these vocalizations form a species' vocal repertoire. However, despite their widespread presence and ecological significance, the vocal repertoires of less than 15% of primate taxa have been documented to date. The...
Wild meat represents a vital source of micro‐ and macronutrients for forest‐dwelling people; however, city dwellers with access to animal protein from different animals may also consume large amounts of wild meat as part of their customs and traditions, to diversify their diets, to maintain connections to their rural kin, and to access meat without having to pay the high prices of domestic meat in the city. The aggregate urban...
Mammalian carnivores are considered a key group in maintaining ecological health and can indicate potential ecological integrity in landscapes where they occur. Carnivores also hold high conservation value and their habitat requirements can guide management and conservation plans. The order Carnivora has 84 species from 8 families in the Neotropical region: Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Otariidae; Phocidae; Procyon...
Assessment of mammal reproduction for hunting sustainability through community‐based sampling of species in the wildNARA Subscribed
Wildlife subsistence hunting is a major source of protein for tropical rural populations and a prominent conservation issue. The intrinsic rate of natural increase. ( r max ) of populations is a key reproductive parameter in the most used assessments of hunting sustainability. However, researchers face severe difficulties in obtaining reproductive data in the wild, so these assessments often rely on classic reproductive rates...
Climatic amplification of the numerical response of a predator population to its preyNARA Subscribed
We evaluated evidence of an effect of climate on the numerical response of a coyote ( Canis latrans ) population to their keystone prey, snowshoe hares ( Lepus americanus ), in a Canadian boreal forest. Six a priori hypotheses of the coyote numerical response were developed that postulated linear, nonlinear, additive, and interactive effects of prey and climate. Model selection procedures showed the North Atlantic Oscillation...
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