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ToolsLevi, Taal, Peres, Carlos A. and Shepard, Glenn H. (2024) Hunting and Trapping in the Americas:The Assessment and Projection of Harvest on Wildlife Populations. In: Natural Science and Indigenous Knowledge. Cambridge University Press, pp. 176-200. ISBN 9781009416672
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Indigenous people in the Americas disproportionately depend on wild meat. Many approaches have been applied to assess the impact of hunting on wildlife populations by determining whether or not it can be defined as “sustainable.” Proper understanding of sustainability requires specification of what is being sustained, the spatial extent under consideration, the duration over which the resource is being sustained, and how the impact of a particular use compares with realistic forms of alternative uses. The sustainability of hunting is species specific with harvest-sensitive species often succumbing to depletion, while others persist indefinitely. Prey profiles of Amazonian hunters rapidly shift from low-fecundity and harvest-sensitive to high-fecundity and harvest-insensitive species as local human population density increases. This is a consequence of the life history of each hunted species, which dictates age at first birth, fecundity, and survivorship, and its “catchability,” which is a measure of the effectiveness of hunting effort. Here we review density-dependent population growth in wildlife and the implementation of harvest models typical to human central-place foragers to project wildlife populations in space and time rather than a binary assessment of whether hunting is “sustainable.”
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | Publisher Copyright: © Cambridge University Press & Assessment 2024. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | incentivized sustainability,indigenous hunting strategies,population dynamcis,shamanic beliefs,environmental science(all),engineering(all),arts and humanities(all),psychology(all),social sciences(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Biology Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Mar 2026 15:30 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Mar 2026 15:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/102653 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781009416665.007 |
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