Abstract
Parry, L., and C. A. Peres. 2015. Evaluating the use of local ecological knowledge to monitor hunted tropical-forest wildlife over large spatial scales. Ecology and Society 20(3): 15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07601-200315
Highlights
Conserving biodiversity requires monitoring of species, habitats, and human dimensions of social-ecological systems (Danielsen et al 2009)
We have developed a technique to monitor the depletion of hunted forest wildlife over vast tracts of forest across the Brazilian Amazon, based on rapid interviews with rural hunters to determine occupancy zones
We aimed to develop predictive models of the proportion of census sectors depleted of each game species across Amazonas
Summary
Conserving biodiversity requires monitoring of species, habitats, and human dimensions of social-ecological systems (Danielsen et al 2009). Global-scale analyses can provide useful insights into patterns of biodiversity loss (Collen et al 2009) but they cannot elucidate local to regional scale heterogeneity of threats or the effectiveness of conservation interventions. Tropical forest vertebrates are declining faster than forest coverage (Jenkins et al 2003), quantifying deforestation alone would underestimate faunal depletion. Because of their key ecological roles (Stoner et al 2007) and nutritional importance (Milner-Gulland et al 2003), considerable in situ effort has been dedicated to monitoring tropical forest vertebrates
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