Title
How Do Primates Survive Among Humans? Mechanisms Employed by Vervet Monkeys at Lake Nabugabo, Uganda
Author(s)
Chapman, Colin A.; Twinomugisha, Dennis; Teichroeb, Julie A.; Valenta, Kim; Sengupta, Raja; Sarkar, Dipto; Rothman, Jessica M.
Published
2016
Publisher
Ethnoprimatology: Primate Conservation in the 21st Century.
Abstract
Between 2000 and 2012, it is estimated that 2.3 million km2 of forest was lost globally and in the tropics forest loss increased by 2101 km 2 per year (Hansen et al. 2013 ). As a result, in most countries degraded forests now exceed areas covered by primary forests (FAO 2005 ). It is estimated that in the 1990s secondary forests replaced at least one of each six hectares of primary forest deforested in the 1990s (Wright and Muller-Landau 2006 ) and that secondary forests now represent 35 % of all remaining tropical forests (Emrich et al. 2000 ). Cropland in tropical countries expanded by 48,000 km2 per year between 1999 and 2008, largely at the expense of forest (Phalan et al. 2013 ), suggesting that many tropical areas that once were forested habitats are currently or will become a mixture of agricultural land and regenerating forest. One estimate suggests that approximately one billion hectares of additional agricultural land, primarily in developing countries, will need to be converted to agriculture by 2050 to meet the demands of the growing human populations —an area larger than Canada (Laurance et al. 2014 ).
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