Fig 1.
PRISMA flow diagram illustrating the article search and screening process of the systematic review on health risk assessments related to the bushmeat in African tropical rainforests.
Fig 2.
Time lag between survey and publication year of risk assessment studies on the bushmeat trade in African tropical rainforests.
Time lag is expressed in years.
Fig 3.
Per-country number of scientific publications on health risk assessment in African tropical rainforests together with assessment methods.
Pie charts show the proportion of assessment methods used in each country (e.g., pie charts in Togo and Cameroon represent one and 40 articles, respectively). Base map layer obtained from Natural Earth (public domain data), via the rnaturalearth R package. Country boundaries sourced from: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-cultural-vectors/50m-admin-0-countries/. License information available at: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/.
Fig 4.
Type of study sites targeted by health risk assessment surveys related to the bushmeat trade in African tropical rainforests.
A: Forest and protected areas; B: Hospitals; C: Households and schools; D: Rural communities; E: Rural markets; F: Urban communities; G: Urban markets.
Fig 5.
Temporal distribution of survey methods used in health risk assessment related to the bushmeat trade in African tropical rainforests.
Table 1.
Generalized linear model assessing the influence of GDP, forest cover, urbanization rate, and major epidemics on the number of bushmeat health risk surveys conducted in African tropical rainforests.
Table 2.
List of the microbes and parasites identified from bushmeat surveys in African tropical rainforests.