title: How Monkeys Sequester Carbon.
abstract: Unsustainable hunting does more than threaten wildlife populations and human livelihood - Carlos Peres and colleagues recently showed that it can also reduce how much carbon the forest stores. Maintaining primates and other important seed dispersing animals in tropical forests could be an important piece of the climate change mitigation puzzle.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Zoology and Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Electronic address: jedediah.brodie@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Jedediah F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Brodie
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018533:Biomass; D002244:Carbon; D057965:Carbon Sequestration; D057231:Climate Change; D017753:Ecosystem; D000882:Haplorhini; D014197:Trees; D014329:Tropical Climate
chemical_list: D002244:Carbon
keywords: aboveground biomass; climate change mitigation; ecosystem services; overhunting; seed dispersal; sustainable hunting