Extinction of snub-nosed monkeys in China during the past 400 years

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1227-1244

  Li, Baoguo ^a   Pan, Ruliang ^b,c   Oxnard, Charles E ^b  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Conservation; Demography in China; Environmental change in China; Rhinopithecus; Snub nosed monkey; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; LOCAL EXTINCTION; PRIMATE; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

CHINA;

PRIMATES; PYGATHRIX; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036909548     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021122819845     Document Type: Article

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