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This study therefore presents the first estimates of large vertebrate abundances in Manu Park that allow us to (1) compare the two major forest types http://www.selleck.cn/products/XL184.html in the Neotropics; and finally (4) quantify the effects of Matsigenka subsistence hunting on vertebrate species composition and population abundance. STUDY SITES.�� The study was conducted at seven locations inside Manu Park, at altitudes of 340�C420?m?asl (Table S1; Fig. 1). Pairwise distances between the census sites (measured from the central campsites) ranged from 8 to 70?km (mean?��?SD distance between sites?=?32?��?17?km). Annual rainfall averages 2000�C2600?mm, with a dry season between May and September/October. Away from the high-elevation, Andean portion of the park, the mean temperature is fairly constant, but in the dry season, there can be several-day cold fronts (friajes) that reach as low as 9��C, thereby reducing animal activity. The two major Matsigenka settlements, Tayakome and Yomybato, are located on upland terraces, 10�C50?m above the Manu River (Fig. 1; Shepard et al. 2001). About 200 people live in each http://www.selleckchem.com/products/z-vad-fmk.html of these two permanent communities. The rest of the population is found in smaller, less stable satellite settlements. The five nonhunted census sites are 15�C70?km from any Matsigenka settlement. The Cumerjali tributary is occasionally visited by hunters on long-distance forays, but the Upper and Lower Panagua sites have not been visited by Matsigenka hunters within at least the last two generations http://www.selleckchem.com/products/ly2157299.html (although we cannot completely rule out transient forays by uncontacted indigenous people), and both Cocha Cashu Biological Station and the Pakitza guard post have been protected from hunting since at least the Park's founding in 1973. The Cocha Cashu and Pakitza census sites were exceptions in two ways. Firstly, these were the only two sites located exclusively in lowland forest. Secondly, at Cocha Cashu, one transect circled the oxbow lake rather than radiating outward. At Pakitza, the third, northern transect (Fig. 1) was abandoned after the presence of an uncontacted indigenous group was detected, which also prevented us from conducting censuses upriver of Tayakome or near the mouth of the Manu River. All census transects were 1?m wide, marked every 50?m, georeferenced with a Garmin GPS60 (Garmin International Inc., Olathe, KS, U.S.A.) with external antenna, and mapped in relation to forest topography (Fig. 1). In most sites, we censused three, nonspatially independent transects radiating outwards from the central campsite or Matsigenka settlement. The transects in the two Matsigenka settlements were deliberately placed within the zones of high Matsigenka hunting effort (Fig.