Inferring extinction from biological records: Were we too quick to write off Miss Waldron's Red Colobus Monkey (Piliocolobus badius waldronae)?

Biological Conservation

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 285-287

  Roberts, David L ^a   Kitchener, Andrew C ^b,c  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decline; Extinction; Miss Waldron's Red Colobus; Piliocolobus badius waldronae; Rediscovery

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EXTINCTION; MONITORING; PRIMATE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

COLOBINAE; COLOBUS SP.; PROCOLOBUS BADIUS;

EID: 29244443279     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.09.033     Document Type: Article

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