Luke Parry

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the economic drivers of bushmeat hunting and consumption by analyzing the relative importance of household-scale economic factors in diverse spatial and environmental contexts and find that eating bushmeat is mainly dependent on the hunting of relatively common species for subsistence and food sharing, rather than through market exchange.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the factors determining catch composition in the artisanal fishery of the Rio Purus, the main fish source sub-system for the Amazon's largest city (Manaus), and find that more commercially important species dominating where Manaus-based fish-buyers frequent.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a method of rapidly assessing wildlife harvest and trade in multiple areas using expert knowledge, using caiman as a model taxon, and surveyed experts across the Brazilian Amazon.

TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between psychological nature connection and ecological knowledge of local bird species, and assessed their associations with potential drivers, including access to, contact with, and reliance on nature and socio-demographic characteristics.

TL;DR: Like others before them, Junqueira and Clement (2012) attempt to do this by highlighting the presence of Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs, or terra pretas) as evidence for widespread human disturbance in interfluvial regions, but it is suggested that their spatial extent should be compared to that of non-anthropogenic soils.