Over-hunting of seed-dispersing mammals could be more detrimental to tree diversity and carbon stocks in Amazonian forests than the direct impacts of deforestation
Over-hunting of seed-dispersing mammals could be more detrimental to tree diversity and carbon stocks in Amazonian forests than the direct impacts of deforestation The Amazon rainforest is globally important for its biodiversity and as a major terrestrial store of carbon (1). The pace and extent of deforestation in the Amazon over the past few decades (2) has therefore been alarming. However, a recent paper in PNAS (3) suggests that we should be equally concerned about the impact of unrestricted game hunting on forest diversity and carbon storage.
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AuthorJohn Carson is a palynologist working mostly in the South American tropics and currently based at University of Reading. Archives |