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Nuñez-Iturri, Gabriela, Ola Olsson, and Henry F. Howe. 2008. “Hunting Reduces Recruit-
ment of Primate-Dispersed Trees in Amazonian Peru.”
Biological Conservation
141,
no. 6 (2008): 1536-46.
The negative impacts of hunting of primates on the regeneration of trees is the subject here,
and how the loss of seed dispersers leads to changes in tree species composition that are in-
dependent of logging or other human activities in the forest.
Palminteri, Suzanne, George Powell, Whaldener Endo, Chris Kirkby, Douglas Yu, and Car-
los A. Peres. “Usefulness of Species Range Polygons for Predicting Local Primate Oc-
currences in Southeastern Peru.”
American Journal of Primatology
73, no. 1 (2011):
53-61.
This paper shows how range polygons, which are generated at the scale of species' geo-
graphic ranges, can be used for conservation planning at the project scale (usually a single
landscape).
Sanderson, Eric W., Kent H. Redford, Cheryl-Lesley B. Chetkiewicz, Rodrigo A. Medellin,
Alan R. Rabinowitz, John G. Robinson, and Andrew B. Taber. “Planning to Save a
Species: The Jaguar as a Model.”
Conservation Biology
16, no. 1 (2002): 58-72.
The first expert-driven effort to gather current (1999) scientific knowledge about jag-
uars—their known geographic range, conservation status, and chances for survival—at the
continental scale.
Terborgh, John.
Five New World Primates: A Study in Comparative Ecology
. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1983.
The ecology of five primates in Manú National Park, Madre de Dios, Peru, is featured in
this topic. The author also explains the underlying environmental processes that influence
these species in their movement, including feeding, predator avoidance, and other behaviors.
Terborgh, John, Lawrence Lopez, Percy Nuñez, Madhu Rao, Ghazala Shahabuddin, Gabri-
ela Oriheula, Mailen Riveros, et al. “Ecological Meltdown in Predator-Free Forest
Fragments.”
Science
294, no. 5548 (2001): 1923-26.
A classic paper in ecology that documents the changes to an ecological system stemming
from the exclusion of predators on forested islands created by a dam in Venezuela. The res-
ulting herbivore population explosion led to lower recruitment of favored tree species and
subsequent changes in plant composition, which in turn decreased the amount of food avail-
able to the herbivores, leading to a loss of diversity at several trophic levels.
Tobler, Mathias W., Sarnia E. Carrillo-Percastegui, Renata Leite Pitman, Rosa E. Mares,
and Glen E. Powell. “An Evaluation of Camera Traps for Inventorying Large- and
