The Plight of Large Animals in Tropical Forests and the Consequences for Plant Regeneration

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Biotropica

Volume 39 Issue 3, Pages 289 - 291

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The Plight of Large Animals in Tropical Forests and the Consequences for Plant Regeneration

S. Joseph Wright ^1,9,10 , Kathryn E. Stoner ^2,10 , Noelle Beckman ³ , Richard T. Corlett ⁴ , Rodolfo Dirzo ⁵ , Helene C. Muller-Landau ³ , Gabriela Nuñez-Iturri ⁶ , Carlos A. Peres ⁷ , and Benjamin C. Wang ⁸

¹ Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843–03092, Balboa, República de Panamá
² Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, Apartado Postal 27-3 (Xangari) 58189, Morelia, Michoacán, México
³ Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, U.S.A.
⁴ Department of Ecology & Biodiversity, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China
⁵ Stanford University, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford, California 94305, U.S.A.
⁶ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois-Chicago, 845 W. Taylor St. (M/C 066), Chicago, Illinois 60607, U.S.A.
⁷ Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
⁸ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Box 951606, Los Angeles, California 90095-1606, U.S.A.

⁹ Corresponding author; mailing address: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Unit 0948, APO AA 34002-0948 USA; e-mail: wrightj@si.edu

¹⁰ Guest Editors of the Special Section.

KEYWORDS

bushmeat • hunting • mammals • poaching • plant diversity • seed dispersal • seed predation • seed survival • seedling survival

ABSTRACT

We introduce a special section that addresses the bushmeat or wild meat crisis, its direct impact on game species, and its indirect impact on plants in tropical forests.

RESUMEN

Introducimos una sección especial que trata la crisis de la carne de animales salvajes, su impacto directo sobre las especies cazadas y su impacto indirecto sobre las plantas en los bosques tropicales.

Received 17 December 2006; revision accepted 10 January 2007.

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