People in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central AmericaKirsten M. Silvius, Richard E. Bodmer, José M. V. Fragoso Columbia University Press, 2004 M12 14 - 464 páginas This book reviews wildlife management and conservation in Central and South America. The book discusses the threats to biodiversity in this area including habitat fragmentation, development, ranching, tourism as well as hunting. The book contains contributions from many local Latin American authors who work there daily and are exposed to the numerous and unique issues that need to be taken into account when talking about conservation in Central and South America. |
Contenido
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PART II Economic Considerations | 137 |
PART III Fragmentation and Other Nonharvest Human Impacts | 209 |
PART IV Hunting ImpactsBiological Basis and Rationale for Sustainability | 297 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
People in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America Kirsten M. Silvius Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
Términos y frases comunes
abundance Amazonian animals biomass birds Bodmer Brazil Brazilian brocket deer captured capybara cattle Characiformes collared peccary commercial communities conservation CPUE Crampton crocodile cultural density ecological economic Embera environmental estimated evaluate females fish fisheries management fishermen flooded floodplain Fragoso gray brocket gray brocket deer habitat human hunted areas hunted sites hunters hunting pressure IBAMA IDSM increase indigenous individuals Instituto Iquitos Izoceño jaguar Jusante Lacandon Lacandon Forest lakes land levels located lowland tapir Mamirauá mammals management plan Maracá metapopulation monitoring Nogueira Nogueira-Filho overhunting pampas deer park participation persistently hunted Peru pirarucu primates production protected areas protein RDSM red brocket red brocket deer region reproductive river Robinson and Redford rural season slightly hunted species study area subsistence tambaqui tapir Tayassu Tefé tion transects turtles ungulates unifilis várzea vicuñas white-lipped peccary wildlife management wildlife meat Xavante Yanomami zone