Primate response to natural gas pipeline construction in the Peruvian Amazon |
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| Authors: | Tremaine Gregory Farah Carrasco‐Rueda Jessica Deichmann Joseph Kolowski Alfonso Alonso |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Center for Conservation and Sustainability, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC, USA;2. School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA;3. Smithsonian‐Mason School of Conservation, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Front Royal, VA, USA |
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| Abstract: | While natural resource exploration and extraction activity is expanding in the Neotropics, our understanding of wildlife response to such activity is almost non‐existent. Primates, which fulfill important ecological roles and face numerous anthropogenic threats, are of particular concern. We studied primate group distribution before, during, and after natural gas pipeline construction in the Peruvian Amazon to investigate whether primates spatially avoid areas of disturbance. We monitored primates on eight transects 20 times per annual sampling period in three consecutive years and analyzed changes in group observations relative to the pipeline right‐of‐way in a multi‐season occupancy modeling framework. Overall primate group encounter rates were low (
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| Keywords: | arboreal mammals biodiversity monitoring development impact fossil fuels hydrocarbons Lower Urubamba Region Neotropics occupancy modeling |
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