LED flashlight technology facilitates wild meat extraction across the tropics

Mark Bowler; Christopher Beirne; Mathias W Tobler; Matt Anderson; Anna DiPaola; John E Fa; Michael P Gilmore; Lisley P Lemos; Pedro Mayor; Amelia Meier; Guillaume Menie Menie; Diana Meza; Delia Moreno‐Gutierrez; John R Poulsen; Anamélia Souza Jesus; João Valsecchi; Hani R El Bizri

doi:10.1002/fee.2242

LED flashlight technology facilitates wild meat extraction across the tropics

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment ◽

10.1002/fee.2242 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (9) ◽

pp. 489-495 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mark Bowler ◽

Christopher Beirne ◽

Mathias W Tobler ◽

Matt Anderson ◽

Anna DiPaola ◽

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Keyword(s):

Wild Meat ◽

The Tropics

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A Framework for Assessing Impacts of Wild Meat Hunting Practices in the Tropics

Human Ecology ◽

10.1007/s10745-019-0075-6 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 449-464 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Andy D. M. Dobson ◽

E. J. Milner-Gulland ◽

Daniel J. Ingram ◽

Aidan Keane

Keyword(s):

Wild Meat ◽

The Tropics

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Bushmeat biogeochemistry: hunting tropical mammals alters ecosystem phosphorus budgets

Proceedings of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rspb.2019.0966 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 286 (1907) ◽

pp. 20190966

Author(s):

Jedediah F. Brodie ◽

Peter B. McIntyre

Keyword(s):

Terrestrial Ecosystems ◽

Large Mammals ◽

Atmospheric Input ◽

P Loss ◽

Limiting Nutrient ◽

Wild Meat ◽

Phosphorus Budgets ◽

Harvest Sustainability ◽

The Tropics ◽

Very High

Wild meat (or ‘bushmeat’) hunting is nearly ubiquitous across the tropics and is very often unsustainable—driving declines and extirpation of numerous mammal populations. Loss of these animals can alter the transport of nutrients within and between ecosystems. But whether the physical removal of vertebrate carcasses and the nutrients that they store can reduce overall nutrient availability in ecosystems has been little explored. At 32 sites on three continents, we show that annual phosphorus (P) loss via mammal exploitation was low relative to the rate of atmospheric P deposition. But at four sites in Africa and Southeast Asia, removal of P in the skeletons of hunted mammals exceeded the atmospheric input of this nutrient by 10-fold or more. Because P is the growth-limiting nutrient for many tropical terrestrial ecosystems and certain large mammals, the imbalance created by the removal of mammal biomass under very high hunting scenarios could reduce ecosystem carrying capacity if no compensatory P additions occur in the system. This biogeochemical perspective on bushmeat exploitation raises further concerns about harvest sustainability and human food security in areas where hunting rates are high and ecosystem P inputs low.

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