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Título: Differential resilience of Amazonian otters along the Rio Negro in the aftermath of the 20th century international fur trade
Autor: Pimenta, Natalia Camps
Antunes, André Pinassi
Barnett, Adrian Ashton
Macedo, Valêncio W.
Shepard, Glenn Harvey
Palavras-chave: Behavior, Animals
Animals Hunting
Ecology
Fur
History
Neotropics
Nonhuman
Otter
Psychological Resilience
Review
Social Interaction
Spatio-temporal Analysis
Species Extinction
Animals
Biodiversity
Commercial Phenomena
Economics
Ecosystem
Environmental Protection
Human
Physiology
Animalss
Biodiversity
Commerce
Conservation Of Natural Resources
Ecosystem
Humans
Otters
Data do documento: 2018
Revista: PLoS ONE
É parte de: Volume 13, Número 3
Abstract: Commercial hunting for the international trade in animal hides in the 20th century decimated many populations of aquatic wildlife in Amazonia. However, impacts varied significantly between different species and regions, depending upon hunting intensity, accessibility of habitat, and the inherent resilience of various species and their habitats. We investigated the differential responses of two Amazonian Mustelid species, the neotropical otter and giant otter, to commercial hunting pressure along the upper Rio Negro in Brazil, and examined historical factors that influenced spatial and temporal variation in commercial exploitation. We analyzed previously unanalyzed data from historical records of hide shipments to track changes in hide sales and prices for the two species in the late 20th century. We also gathered oral histories from older Baniwa people who had witnessed or participated in commercial otter hunting. These complimentary data sources reveal how intrinsic biological and social characteristics of the two otter species interacted with market forces and regional history. Whereas giant otter populations were driven to local or regional extinction during the late 20th century by commercial hunting, neotropical otters persisted. In recent decades, giant otter populations have returned to some parts of the upper Rio Negro, a development which local people welcome as part of a generalized recovery of the ecosystems in their territory as a result of the banning of animal pelt exports and indigenous land demarcation. This paper expands the scope of the field historical ecology and reflects on the role of local knowledge in biodiversity conservation. © 2018 Pimenta et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193984
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