Conservation status of primates in Trinidad, West Indies

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Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 285-291

  Hsu, M J ^a   Agoramoorthy, G ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA SENICULUS; CEBIDAE; CEBUS; CEBUS ALBIFRONS; PRIMATES;

CONSERVATION STATUS; HABITAT DESTRUCTION; HUNTING PRESSURE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; RED HOWLER MONKEY; WHITE-FRONTED CAPUCHIN MONKEY;

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, TRINIDAD;

EID: 0030303624     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0030605300021785     Document Type: Article

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