Understanding long‐term primate community dynamics: implications of forest change

Chapman, Colin A.; Struhsaker, Thomas T.; Skorupa, Joseph P.; Snaith, Tamaini V.; Rothman, Jessica M.

doi:10.1890/09-0128.1

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“…KNP now holds the last substantial tract of premontane forest in East Africa (21). Small patches [range: 3-350 ha, average = 32 ha] of formerly contiguous extensive forest are still found outside the park amid smallholder agriculture and tea plantations.…”

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Lessons about parks and poverty from a decade of forest loss and economic growth around Kibale National Park, Uganda

Naughton‐Treves

Alix‐Garcia²,

Chapman³

2011

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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We use field data linked to satellite image analysis to examine the relationship between biodiversity loss, deforestation, and poverty around Kibale National Park (KNP) in western Uganda, 1996Uganda, -2006. Over this decade, KNP generally maintained forest cover, tree species, and primate populations, whereas neighboring communal forest patches were reduced by half and showed substantial declines in tree species and primate populations. However, a bad decade for forest outside the park proved a prosperous one for most local residents. Panel data for 252 households show substantial improvement in welfare indicators (e.g., safer water, more durable roof material), with the greatest increases found among those with highest initial assets. A combination of regression analysis and matching estimators shows that although the poor tend to be located on the park perimeter, proximity to the park has no measureable effect on growth of productive assets. The risk for land loss among the poor was inversely correlated with proximity to the park, initial farm size, and decline in adjacent communal forests. We conclude the current disproportionate presence of poor households at the edge of the park does not signal that the park is a poverty trap. Rather, Kibale appears to provide protection against desperation sales and farm loss among those most vulnerable.conservation | tropical forest | protected areas | economic development

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Lessons about parks and poverty from a decade of forest loss and economic growth around Kibale National Park, Uganda

Naughton‐Treves

Alix‐Garcia²,

Chapman³

2011

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…See [85] for description of these estimators. All methods are based on line-transect census methodologies, considered the most appropriate methods for estimating densities of large-bodied diurnal species such as red colobus [86].…”

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“…Using these techniques, identical routes were walked typically bi-weekly in each compartment (table 2). In total, 283 transects covering 1104 km were walked (see [85] for detailed methods).…”

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Competing pressures on populations: long-term dynamics of food availability, food quality, disease, stress and animal abundance

Chapman

Schoof

Bonnell

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Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Despite strong links between sociality and fitness that ultimately affect the size of animal populations, the particular social and ecological factors that lead to endangerment are not well understood. Here, we synthesize approximately 25 years of data and present new analyses that highlight dynamics in forest composition, food availability, the nutritional quality of food, disease, physiological stress and population size of endangered folivorous red colobus monkeys ( Procolobus rufomitratus ). There is a decline in the quality of leaves 15 and 30 years following two previous studies in an undisturbed area of forest. The consumption of a low-quality diet in one month was associated with higher glucocorticoid levels in the subsequent month and stress levels in groups living in degraded forest fragments where diet was poor was more than twice those in forest groups. In contrast, forest composition has changed and when red colobus food availability was weighted by the protein-to-fibre ratio, which we have shown positively predicts folivore biomass, there was an increase in the availability of high-quality trees. Despite these changing social and ecological factors, the abundance of red colobus has remained stable, possibly through a combination of increasing group size and behavioural flexibility.

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“…1) is located in a biodiversity hotspot (Cordeiro et al 2007) and is severely threatened by dense intensive smallholder agriculture, land and resource pressures, and high rates of habitat loss and conversion, making it a top priority area for conservation (Brooks et al 2001). Kibale is a remnant of a transitional forest between savannah and montane forest, and is home to the last large tract of premontane forest in East Africa (Chapman et al 2010).…”

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Contrasting perceptions of ecosystem services of an African forest park

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SUMMARYTraditionally, conservation programmes assume that local peoples' support for parks depends on receiving material benefits from foreign exchange, tourism, development and employment. However, in the case of forest parks in Africa, where annual visitation can be small, local support may instead result from ecosystem services. Kibale National Park, a forest park in Uganda, demonstrates that people appreciate parks in ways that are seldom cited nor explored. Public perceptions of benefits accrued from Kibale were explored using two different sampling techniques: a community census and a geographic sample. In both surveys, over 50% of respondents perceived benefits provided by Kibale National Park, and over 90% of those who perceived benefits identified ecosystem services, whereas material benefits were cited less frequently. Multimodel selection on a suite of general linear models for the two different sampling methods provided a comparison of factors influencing perceptions of ecosystem services. Perceptions of Park benefits were influenced by geography, household and respondent characteristics, and perception of negative impacts from the Park. Perceived ecosystem benefits played an important role in the way the Park was viewed and valued locally. Parks have considerable impacts on neighbouring communities, and their long-term political and economic sustainability depends on managing these relationships well. Since local people have the most to gain or lose by conserving neighbouring parks, analyses that incorporate the perceptions of local people are essential to management and sustainability of park landscapes.

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Understanding long‐term primate community dynamics: implications of forest change

Cited by 160 publications

References 90 publications

Lessons about parks and poverty from a decade of forest loss and economic growth around Kibale National Park, Uganda

Lessons about parks and poverty from a decade of forest loss and economic growth around Kibale National Park, Uganda

Competing pressures on populations: long-term dynamics of food availability, food quality, disease, stress and animal abundance

Contrasting perceptions of ecosystem services of an African forest park

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