Catastrophic ape decline in western equatorial Africa

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6932, 2003, Pages 611-614

  Walsh, Peter D ^a   Abernethy, Kate A ^b,c   Bermejo, Magdalena ^d   Beyers, Rene ^e   De Wachter, Pauwel ^f   Akou, Marc Ella ^f   Huljbregts, Bas ^f   Mambounga, Daniel Idiata ^g   Toham, Andre Kamdem ^f   Kilbourn, Annelisa M ^e   Lahm, Sally A ^h   Latour, Stefanie ^e   Maisels, Fiona ^e,i   Mbina, Christian ^e   Mihindou, Yves ^e   Ndong Obiang, Sosthène ^g   Effa, Ernestine Ntsame ^g   Starkey, Malcolm P ^e,j   Teifer, Paul ^b,k   Thibault, Marc ^f   Tutin, Caroline E G ^b,c   White, Lee J T ^e   Wilkie, David S ^e   more..

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^f WWF Ctrl Africa Regl Prog Office   (Gabon)

^g Ministere de l'Economie Forestiere   (Gabon)

^h Institut de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale   (Gabon)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^k NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVESTMENTS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

APES;

FORESTRY;

DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUNTING; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES INVENTORY;

AFRICA; ANIMAL HUNTING; ANIMAL RIGHTS; APE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GABON; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LOGGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

ANIMALS; APE DISEASES; COMMERCE; CONGO; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATA COLLECTION; ECOSYSTEM; GABON; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOMINIDAE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MEAT; POPULATION DENSITY;

CONGO; GABON;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; ANIMALIA; GORILLA GORILLA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0037431235     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01566     Document Type: Article

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