Effects of habitat quality and hunting pressure on arboreal folivore densities in neotropical forests: A case study of howler monkeys (alouatta spp.)

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 68, Issue 3-5, 1997, Pages 199-222

  Peres, Carlos A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Arboreal folivores; Foliage quality; Game hunting; Primate densities; Terra firme forest; V rzea forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002433340     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000157247     Document Type: Article

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