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SUBMITTER: Brodie JF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6661346 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brodie Jedediah F JF McIntyre Peter B PB
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20190717 1907
Wild meat (or 'bushmeat') hunting is nearly ubiquitous across the tropics and is very often unsustainable-driving declines and extirpation of numerous mammal populations. Loss of these animals can alter the transport of nutrients within and between ecosystems. But whether the physical removal of vertebrate carcasses and the nutrients that they store can reduce overall nutrient availability in ecosystems has been little explored. At 32 sites on three continents, we show that annual phosphorus (P) ...[more]