In human-dominated landscapes, intensive hunting interacts synergistically with forest fragmentation to further threaten wildlife populations.
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The Short Version
Evidence supports the claim that intensive hunting can interact with forest fragmentation in ways that worsen wildlife declines beyond either pressure alone. The strongest direct studies show this in fragmented tropical forests, particularly Amazonian systems and Neotropical primates. However, broad global syntheses often confirm both threats separately without formally measuring synergy across all landscapes and taxa.
Caveats
"Synergistically" is a technical claim about more-than-additive effects; several cited sources show combined pressure but do not formally test that standard.
The strongest direct evidence comes from tropical forest fragments and specific taxa, so unqualified generalization to all human-dominated landscapes is broader than the best evidence.
Large-scale syntheses support hunting and fragmentation as major independent threats, but they do not yet quantify the interaction consistently across regions.