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Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals

William J. Ripple, Katharine Abernethy, Matthew G. Betts, Guillaume Chapron, Rodolfo Dirzo, Mauro Galetti, Taal Levi, Peter A. Lindsey, David W. Macdonald, Brian Machovina, Thomas M. Newsome, Carlos A. Peres, Arian D. Wallach, Christopher Wolf, Hillary Young
Published 19 October 2016.DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160498
William J. Ripple
GlobalTrophic Cascades Program, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USAForest Biodiversity Research Network, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Katharine Abernethy
School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UKInstitut de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale, CENAREST, BP 842 Libreville, Gabon
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Matthew G. Betts
GlobalTrophic Cascades Program, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USAForest Biodiversity Research Network, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Guillaume Chapron
Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 73091 Riddarhyttan, Sweden
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Rodolfo Dirzo
Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Mauro Galetti
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Instituto Biociências, Departamento de Ecologia, 13506-900 Rio Claro, São Paulo, BrazilDepartment of Bioscience, Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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Taal Levi
GlobalTrophic Cascades Program, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USAForest Biodiversity Research Network, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USADepartment of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Peter A. Lindsey
Panthera, 8 West 40th Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10018, USAMammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
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David W. Macdonald
Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Tubney, Abingdon OX13 5QL, UK
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Brian Machovina
Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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Thomas M. Newsome
GlobalTrophic Cascades Program, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USASchool of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, Burwood campus, Geelong, Victoria 3125, AustraliaSchool of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, AustraliaSchool of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Carlos A. Peres
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
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Arian D. Wallach
Centre for Compassionate Conservation, School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123 Broadway, New South Wales 2007, Australia
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Christopher Wolf
GlobalTrophic Cascades Program, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USAForest Biodiversity Research Network, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Hillary Young
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals
William J. Ripple, Katharine Abernethy, Matthew G. Betts, Guillaume Chapron, Rodolfo Dirzo, Mauro Galetti, Taal Levi, Peter A. Lindsey, David W. Macdonald, Brian Machovina, Thomas M. Newsome, Carlos A. Peres, Arian D. Wallach, Christopher Wolf, Hillary Young
R. Soc. open sci. 2016 3 160498; DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160498. Published 19 October 2016
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Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals

William J. Ripple, Katharine Abernethy, Matthew G. Betts, Guillaume Chapron, Rodolfo Dirzo, Mauro Galetti, Taal Levi, Peter A. Lindsey, David W. Macdonald, Brian Machovina, Thomas M. Newsome, Carlos A. Peres, Arian D. Wallach, Christopher Wolf, Hillary Young
R. Soc. open sci. 2016 3 160498; DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160498. Published 19 October 2016

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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Severe impacts of hunting on mammal species
    • 3. Consequences of overhunting
    • 4. Research and knowledge gaps
    • 5. Moving forward with five conservation actions
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