Mass mortality of Japanese macaques in a western coastal forest of Yakushima

Ecological Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 179-188

  Hanya, Goro ^a   Matsubara, Miki ^a   Sugiura, Hideki ^a   Hayakawa, Sachiko ^a   Goto, Shunji ^a   Tanaka, Toshiaki ^a,b   Soltis, Joseph ^c   Noma, Naohiko ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disease; Intertroop competition; Japanese macaque; Mass mortality; Yakushima

Indexed keywords

INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MASS MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMATE; TEMPERATE FOREST;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KAGOSHIMA [KYUSHU]; KYUSHU; YAKUSHIMA;

MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA; PRIMATES;

EID: 1942454724     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1703.2003.00622.x     Document Type: Article

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