Orangutan population density, forest structure and fruit availability in hand-logged and unlogged peat swamp forests in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Biological Conservation

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 91-101

  Felton, Annika M ^a,b   Engström, Linda M ^a   Felton, Adam ^b   Knott, Cheryl D ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographics; Nest survey; Phenology; Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus; Population density

Indexed keywords

HABITAT QUALITY; LOGGING (TIMBER); POPULATION DENSITY; PRIMATE; SWAMP FOREST;

INDONESIA; WEST KALIMANTAN;

ANTHROPOIDEA; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS PYGMAEUS;

EID: 0042425747     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(03)00013-2     Document Type: Article

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