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The impact of hunting on tropical mammal and bird populations
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Quantifying hunting-induced defaunation: As the human population grows and increasingly encroaches on remaining wildlife habitat, hunting threatens many species. Benítez-López et al. conducted a large-scale meta-analysis of hunting trends and impacts across the tropics (see the Perspective by Brashares and Gaynor). Bird and mammal populations were considerably lower in areas where hunting occurred. Although commercial hunting and proximity to roads and urban centers were the most damaging factors, all hunting had worrying impacts, even in protected areas. Protection and alternative approaches for sustainable subsistence hunting must be implemented soon if we are to prevent further, rapid defaunation. Science , this issue p. 180 ; see also p. 136
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Владимировна, К. В., Bocharnikov, V. N., Davydov, V. N., Kambalin, V. S., Валериевна, В. Е., & Vashukevich, Y. E. (2022) · Springer geography · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-90061-8_15 · Cited by 3
To avoid carbon degradation in tropical forests, conserve wildlife
Bennett, E. L., & Robinson, J. G. (2023) · PLoS Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002262 · Cited by 3
“80% for spider and woolly monkeys, respectively, in those areas [2].”
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dos Reis, Y. M. S., & Benchimol, M. (2024) · Environmental Conservation · doi:10.1017/s0376892924000031 · Cited by 3
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Genetic tracing of the white-bellied pangolin’s trade in western central AfricaPreprint
Dipita, A. D., Missoup, A. D., Aguillon, S., Lecompte, É., Momboua, B. R., Chaber, A., Abernethy, K. A., Njiokou, F., Tindo, M., Ntie, S., et al. (2023) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2023.03.10.530129 · Cited by 3
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Indebted to Nature: Corporate Biodiversity Endowment and Bond Market ReactionsPreprint
Han, X., Li, Y. P., & Mu, P. L. (2025) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.5280213 · Cited by 3
Analyse des défis de la filière viande de brousse sur la durabilité faunique au Gabon
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“…Nicoll & Norris, 2010; Guillaumet & Russell, 2022) classifies as biotic factors that may influence population dynamics, hunting pressure (Benitez-Lopez et al., 2017), land use and the presence of human settlements (Sekercioglu et al., 2012; Pizo & Tonetti, 2020) are the anthropogenic…”
BackgroundEcological Response of Forest Vegetation Communities to Snow Damage: A Meta-Analysis
Fan, Q., Yang, H., Li, P., Duan, Y., Guo, D., & Zhang, Q. (2024) · Forests · doi:10.3390/f15111989 · Cited by 2
“If the conditions are met, we decompose Q t and choose a mixed-effects model to determine the degree of influence of the explanatory variables on the effect values through the heterogeneity caused by the explanatory variables [61].”
Aspects of the illegal hunting and trade of vultures in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Manqele, N. S., Selier, J., & Downs, C. T. (2024) · Ostrich · doi:10.2989/00306525.2024.2417964 · Cited by 2
O’Neill, J., Harman, L. A., Holloway, P., Somers, S. E., Hoodless, A. N., & Quinn, J. L. (2025) · Global Ecology and Conservation · doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2025.e03805 · Cited by 2
Zulfiqar, A., Sun, X.-Y., Wu, Q., Rehman, A., Khan, N., & Khan, M. N. (2025) · Biology · doi:10.3390/biology14091275 · Cited by 2
Augustsson, E., Kjellander, P., Andrén, H., Öckinger, E., & Bhardwaj, M. (2025) · Journal of Environmental Management · doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.127552 · Cited by 2
Tanalgo, K. C. (2025) · iScience · doi:10.1016/j.isci.2025.114000 · Cited by 3
Shinoda, Y., Kadoya, T., Takeuchi, Y., & Nansai, K. (2025) · Resources Conservation and Recycling · doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2025.108696 · Cited by 1
Mammalian response to FSC forest certification in production plantations
Matias, G., Cagnacci, F., Afonso, B. C., Valdez, V., Monteiro, B., Sobral, M., & Rosalino, L. M. (2025) · Forest Ecology and Management · doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123360 · Cited by 2
Zhong, M., Xie, P., Feng, Y., Han, W., Du, E., Tian, D., Ma, R., Wang, Y., Jian, Z., Chen, J., et al. (2026) · Global Change Biology · doi:10.1111/gcb.70832 · Cited by 2
“If neither SD nor SE were reported, we estimated the missing SD using the “impute_SD” function from the R package metagear (Benítez-López et al. 2017; Bracken 1992).”
Pollination and dispersal networks in the Amazonian tree flora
ter Steege, H., Ballarin, C. S., Pinto, C. E., Valadão‐Mendes, L. B., Stevenson, P., Correa, D. F., Giannini, T. C., Gomes, V. H. F., McGlone, M. S., & de Lima, R. A. F. (2026) · Communications Biology · doi:10.1038/s42003-026-09896-1 · Cited by 2
“…for both key reproductive stages underscores a critical vulnerability: the ongoing defaunation in the Amazon — driven by habitat fragmentation, overhunting, infrastructure expansion, and climate change — may disrupt plant – animal mutualisms with consequences at multiple trophic levels 61,97,98 .”
Cossíos, E. D., Eddy, D. I. A. Z., & PIZANGO, F. (2022) · Folia Amazónica · doi:10.24841/fa.v31i1.564 · Cited by 2
Gatica, A., Ochoa, A. C., Maroli, M., Cuenca, F., Cuenca, B., Tabuenca, M. A., & Vinassa, M. L. G. (2024) · Acta Zoológica Lilloana · doi:10.30550/j.azl/1867 · Cited by 2
Wong, S. T., Mohamed, A., Mathai, J., Niedballa, J., Kissing, J., Lagan, P., Hastie, A. Y. L., Wilting, A., & Sollmann, R. (2024) · Biotropica · doi:10.1111/btp.13320 · Cited by 4
“The conditions in our study sites, therefore, do not re - flect the hunting pressure that exists in other parts of Southeast Asia (Gray et al., 2018).”
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“Considering the presence of variability between each case and the interference of variability in model organism species, data sources, and focal tissue on the values, a hierarchical meta-analysis model (HMM) was selected for meta-analysis in this study (Benitez-Lopez et al. 2017).”
A diet perspective on the impact of the COVID ‐19 lockdown on urban bird assemblages
Woszczyło, P. K., Mikula, P., Jankowiak, Ł., Ondrejková, A., & Tryjanowski, P. (2024) · Ibis · doi:10.1111/ibi.13372 · Cited by 2
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Tow, J. H., Choo, J., Benítez‐López, A., & Carrasco, L. R. (2025) · Biological Conservation · doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111121 · Cited by 2
Self-citationA national assessment of waterbird hunting in coastal wetlands of Suriname, South America
Mizrahi, D. S., Spaans, A. L., Spaans-Scheen, M. J., Cox, A. R., Laliberté, B., Gallo‐Cajiao, E., & Roy, C. (2026) · Conservation Science and Practice · doi:10.1111/csp2.70273 · Cited by 2
“…increased pressure on the environment during the second phase of the Anthropocene (i.e., the Great Acceleration), the exploitation of some species may have contributed to population declines, and in some cases, extinction (Benitez-Lopez et al., 2017; Cornford et al., 2023; Steffen et al., 2011).”
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“…indicativo da disponibilidade de presas (Foerster et al. 2012) e a proximidade de povoamentos humanos pode representar uma maior demanda do consumo e comercialização de recursos da biodiversidade (Benítez-López et al. 2017, B. J. S. Brashares et al. 2010, Foerster et al. 2012, Mgawe et al. 2012).”
InfluentialChiaravalloti, R. M., Benchimol, M., Reis, Y. S., Jenkins, C. N., Lemos, P., Prado, F., Pádua, C. V., Tenório, S., de Tófoli, C. F., Spínola, J. N., et al. (2018) · Biodiversidade Brasileira · doi:10.37002/biodiversidadebrasileira.v8i2.765 · Cited by 2
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Ecological knowledge and value of traded species: Local awareness of native turtles in Hainan, China
Ma, H., Papworth, S., Ge, T., Wu, X., Yu, C., Zhang, H., Xiao, F., Gaillard, D. L., Bielby, J., & Turvey, S. T. (2023) · Animal Conservation · doi:10.1111/acv.12867 · Cited by 2
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“…in biodiversity and mammal abundances, especially blue duikers, indicate that current hunting strategies, and those of the recent past, are not sustainable (Barnes, 2002; Benitez-Lopez et al., 2017; Fa & Brown, 2009; Ingram et al., 2021; Noss, 1998b; Thibault & Blaney, 2003; Wilkie et al., 2011).”
Zamora-Espinoza, M. E., López‐Acosta, J. C., & Mendoza, E. (2021) · Animal Biology · doi:10.1163/15707563-bja10056 · Cited by 2
Yang, C.-C., Lu, G., Cai, T., Yao, X.-G., & Cai, Y. (2023) · Animals · doi:10.3390/ani13061112 · Cited by 1
“In the tropics, the abundance of birds and mammals, respectively, was found to be 58% and 83% lower in hunting areas than that in non-hunting areas [3].”
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Biodiversity, function, and change of the tropical rainforests of Borneo
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Metadata
- Authors
- Benítez-López, A., Alkemade, R., Schipper, A. M., Ingram, D. J., Verweij, P. A., Eikelboom, J. A. J., & Huijbregts, M. A. J.
- Affiliations
- Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Wetland and Water Research, Radboud University, Post Office Box 9010, NL-6500 GL, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
- Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (NL)
- University of Sussex (GB)
- Utrecht University (NL)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2017-04-14
- Volume
- 356
- Issue
- 6334
- Pages
- 180-183
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2605583228
- Semantic Scholar
- 47a3f1d848466466f1761bd70a29fd3871091b5e
- Cited by
- 663
- References
- 123
- Citations by year
- 2026: 85 · 2025: 82 · 2024: 84 · 2023: 95 · 2022: 73 · 2021: 71 · 2020: 63 · 2019: 58 · 2018: 42 · 2017: 10
- FWCI
- 35.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- research.wur.nl
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
- Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex) (submittedVersion)
- Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent) (submittedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Sussex
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Keywords
- hunting, defaunation, tropical mammals, tropical birds, population decline (ecology), wild meat trade, hunting pressure, protected areas, commercial hunting, biodiversity loss, human accessibility
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Birds, Human Activities, Mammals, Population Density, Biodiversity, Extinction, Biological
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