Pubblicazione scientifica

Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals

FILONE TECNOLOGICO	TEMA
economia circolare e sostenibilità
produzione e cattura
produzione e raccolta

RIASSUNTO

Terrestrial mammals are experiencing a massive collapse in their population sizes and geographical ranges around the world, but many of the drivers, patterns and consequences of this decline remain poorly understood. Here we provide an analysis showing that bushmeat hunting for mostly food and medicinal products is driving a global crisis whereby 301 terrestrial mammal species are threatened with extinction. Nearly all of these threatened species occur in developing countries where major coexisting threats include deforestation, agricultural expansion, human encroachment and competition with livestock. The unrelenting decline of mammals suggests many vital ecological and socio-economic services that these species provide will be lost, potentially changing ecosystems irrevocably. We discuss options and current obstacles to achieving effective conservation, alongside consequences of failure to stem such anthropogenic mammalian extirpation. We propose a multi-pronged conservation strategy to help save threatened mammals from immediate extinction and avoid a collapse of food security for hundreds of millions of people.

DATA

Data di pubblicazione: 19/10/2016

AUTORI

RIPPLE WILLIAM J
ABERNETHY KATHARINE
BETTS MATTHEW G
CHAPRON GUILLAUME
DIRZO RODOLFO
GALETTI MAURO
LEVI TAAL
LINDSEY PETER A
MACDONALD DAVID W
MACHOVINA BRIAN
NEWSOME THOMAS M
PERES CARLOS A
WALLACH ARIAN D
WOLF CHRISTOPHER
YOUNG HILLARY

ENTE DI AFFERENZA

GLOBALTROPHIC CASCADES PROGRAM DEPT FOREST ECOSYSTEMS & SOCIETY OREGON STATE UNIV CORVALLIS OR 97331 USA
FOREST BIODIVERSITY RSCH NETWORK DEPT FOREST ECOSYSTEMS & SOCIETY OREGON STATE UNIV CORVALLIS OR 97331 USA
SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES UNIV STIRLING STIRLING FK9 4LA UK
INST RECHERCHE EN ECOLOGIE TROPICALE CENAREST BP 842 LIBREVILLE GABON
GRIMSO WILDLIFE RSCH STATION DEPT ECOLOGY SWEDISH UNIV AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES 73091 RIDDARHYTTAN SWEDEN
DEPT BIOLOGY STANFORD UNIV STANFORD CA 94305 USA
UNIV ESTADUAL PAULISTA UNESP INST BIOCIENCIAS DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGIA 13506 900 RIO CLARO SAO PAULO BRAZIL
DEPT BIOSCIENCE ECOINFORMATICS & BIODIVERSITY AARHUS UNIV 8000 AARHUS DENMARK
DEPT FISHERIES & WILDLIFE OREGON STATE UNIV CORVALLIS OR 97331 USA
PANTHERA
MAMMAL RSCH INST DEPT ZOOLOGY & ENTOMOLOGY UNIV PRETORIA PRETORIA GAUTENG SOUTH AFRICA
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION RSCH UNIT DEPT ZOOLOGY UNIV OXFORD RECANATI KAPLAN CTR TUBNEY HOUSE TUBNEY ABINGDON OX13 5QL UK
DEPT BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES FLORIDA INTL UNIV MIAMI FL 33199 USA
SCHOOL OF LIFE & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CTR INTEGRATIVE ECOLOGY DEAKIN UNIV BURWOOD CAMPUS GEELONG VICTORIA 3125 AUSTRALIA
SCHOOL OF LIFE & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES UNIV SYDNEY NEW SOUTH WALES 2006 AUSTRALIA
SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL & FOREST SCIENCES UNIV WASHINGTON SEATTLE WA 98195 USA
SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES UNIV EAST ANGLIA NORWICH NR4 7TJ UK
CTR COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATION SCHOOL OF LIFE SCIENCES UNIV TECH SYDNEY
DEPT ECOLOGY & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY UNIV CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA SANTA BARBARA CA 93106 USA

RIVISTA

Royal Society Open Science, 3(10), 160498

IMPACT FACTOR

2,680

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