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Spaan, D, Ramos‐fernández, G, Bonilla‐moheno, M, Schaffner, CM and Aureli, F (2021) The impact of the establishment of otoch ma’ax yetel kooh protected area (YucatÁn, mexico) on populations of two neotropical primates. Parks, 27 (1). pp. 35-42. ISSN 0960-233X
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The impact of the establishment of otoch ma’ax yetel kooh protected area (YucatÁn, mexico) on populations of two neotropical primates.pdf - Published Version Download (1MB) | Preview |
Abstract
In 2002, Otoch Ma’ax Yetel Kooh (OMYK) was decreed a federal Flora and Fauna Protected Area in the state of Yucatán, Mexico, resulting in bans on hunting, logging and slash-and-burn agriculture within its limits. Our aim was to evaluate the influence of the establishment of the protected area on local primate populations. We compared relative abundances of Geoffroy’s Spider Monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) and Black Howler Monkeys (Alouatta pigra) in mature and secondary forest before OMYK was established (in 1998) and 13 years after (in 2015). In both years, the relative abundance of Spider Monkeys was higher in mature than in secondary forest and Howler Monkeys were found exclusively in mature forest. The overall similarity in Spider and Howler Monkey relative abundances over time when mature and secondary forests are considered together is likely because the primates were not hunted and logging was not carried out prior to the establishment of the protected area. Benefits to wildlife of banning slash-and-burn agriculture take longer to become apparent. Still, the legal status of the protected area is critical to defend this site from future land-use changes and it allows the secondary forests to age, thereby increasing habitat for the primate populations.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences Q Science > QH Natural history Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology |
| Divisions: | Biological & Environmental Sciences (from Sep 19) |
| Publisher: | IUCNparksjournal |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Feb 2023 12:44 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Mar 2023 16:03 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.2305/IUCN.CH.2021.PARKS-27-1DS.en |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/18830 |
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