Primate densities in a rainforest of French Guiana. Test of a transect method;Densites de primates en foret Guyanaise. Test d'une methode d'estimation par transect

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences - Serie III

Volumn 321, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 699-704

  Simmen, Bruno ^a   Julliot, Catherine ^a   Bayart, Françoise ^a   Pagès, Élisabeth ^a  

^a Lab d'Ecologie du Museum Natl d'H   (France)

Author keywords

Population; Primary forest; Primate community; Transect census; True densities

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; PRIMATE; TRANSECT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FOREST; FRENCH GUIANA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PRIMATE; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0032144591     PISSN: 07644469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0764-4469(98)80010-3     Document Type: Article

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