Abstract
J. F. BRODIE AND H. K. GIBBS (“BUSHMEATHUNTING AS CLIMATE THREAT,”Letters, 16 October 2009, p. 364) argue that bushmeat extractionthreatens the carbon stocks of tropical forests because (i) bushmeathunting reduces abundances of large-bodied vertebrates; (ii) treespecies with large seeds reproduce poorly without large-bodied verte-brates on which they depend for seed dispersal; (iii) large seed size iscorrelated with high wood density in tropical trees; and (iv) trees withhigh wood density contribute dispro-portionately to the carbon stock. Their first point is well-established,but evidence regarding the others ismixed. Killing animals reduces seeddispersal of vertebrate-dispersed trees(
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