Decoupling the effects of logging and hunting on an Afrotropical animal community

摘要: In tropical forests, hunting nearly always accompanies logging. The entangled nature of these disturbances complicates our ability to resolve applied questions, such as whether secondary and degraded forest can sustain populations animals. With the expansion logging in central Africa, conservation depends on knowledge individual combined impacts animal populations. Our goals were (1) decouple effects selective densities guilds, including apes, duikers, monkeys, elephant, pigs, squirrels, large frugivorous insectivorous birds (2) compare relative importance local-scale variation structure fruit abundance. northern Republic Congo, we surveyed animals along 30 transects positioned disturbed by hunting, alone, neither nor hunting. While sampling twice per month for two years, observed...