Predicting the pattern of decline of African primate diversity: An extinction debt from historical deforestation

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1183-1193

  Cowlishaw, Guy ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; EXTINCTION; HABITAT LOSS; POPULATION DECLINE; PRIMATE;

AFRICA;

PRIMATES;

EID: 0032827317     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98433.x     Document Type: Article

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