Ecological indicators for the industrial corridor in the Gamba Complex of protected areas: A zone of high biodiversity value and oil exploration in Southwest Gabon;Indicateurs écologiques visant le corridor industriel du Complexe d'aires protégées de Gamba: Une zone d'une grande valeur pour la biodiversité et l'exploitation pétrolière dans le sud-ouest du Gabon

Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington

Volumn , Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Dallmeier, Francisco ^a   Alonso, Alfonso ^a   Campbell, Patrick ^a   Lee, Michelle E ^b   Buij, Ralph ^b   Pauwels, Olivier S G ^b,c  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b National Zoological Park   (Gabon)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645755421     PISSN: 00970298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (30)

1. Angehr, G., B. Schmidt, F. Njie, P. Christy, C. Gebhard, L. Tchignoumba et M.A.E. Ombenotori. 2006. Bird surveys in the Gamba Complex of Protected Areas, Gabon. In: Alonso, A., M.E. Lee, P. Campbell, O.S.G. Pauwels et F. Dallmeier, éds., Gamba, Gabon: Biodiversité d'une forêt équatoriale africaine. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, No. 12.
2. Basset, Y., J. Mavoungou, J.B. Mikissa, O. Missa, S. Miller and A. Alonso. 2004. Discriminatory power of different arthropod data sets for the biological monitoring of anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests. Biodiversity and Conservation 13: 709-732.
3. Billes, A., B. Huijbregts, J. Marmet, A. Mounguengui, J.C. Mamfoumbi et C. Odzeano. 2006. Nesting of sea turtles in the Gamba Complex of Protected Areas: first monitoring of a nesting beach. In: Alonso, A., M.E. Lee, P. Campbell, O.S.G. Pauwels et F. Dallmeier, éds., Gamba, Gabon: Biodiversité d'une forêt équatoriale africaine. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, No. 12.
4. Boddicker, M. 2006. Large mammals encountered in the Gamba Complex of Protected Areas, Gabon. In: Alonso, A., M.E. Lee, P. Campbell, O.S.G. Pauwels et F. Dallmeier, éds., Gamba, Gabon: Biodiversité d'une forêt équatoriale africaine. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, No. 12.
5. Burger, M., O.S.G. Pauwels, W.R. Branch, E. Tobi, J.A. Yoga et E.N. Mikolo. 2006. An assessment of the amphibian fauna of the Gamba Complex of Protected Areas, Gabon. In: Alonso, A., M.E. Lee, P. Campbell, O.S.G. Pauwels et F. Dallmeier, éds., Gamba, Gabon: Biodiversité d'une forêt équatoriale africaine. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, No. 12.
6. Campbell, P., P. Rivera, D. Thomas, H.P. Bourobou-Bourobou, T. Nzabi, A. Alonso et F. Dallmeier. 2006. Floristic structure, composition and diversity of an equatorial forest in Gabon. In: Alonso, A., M.E. Lee, P. Campbell, O.S.G. Pauwels et F. Dallmeier, éds., Gamba, Gabon: Biodiversité d'une forêt équatoriale africaine. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, No. 12.
7. Carson, R. 1962. Silent Spring" Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
8. Croes, B.M., W.F. Laurance, L. Tchignoumba, S.A. Lahm, A. Alonso, M. Lee, P. Campbell et C. Ondzeano. Soumis. Behavioral responses of African rainforest mammals to humans inside and outside a protected area. Biotropica.
9. Dale, V.H., S.M. Pearson, H.L. Offerman et R.V. O'Neill. 1994. Relating patterns of land-use change to faunal biodiversity in the Central Amazon. Conservation Biology 8(4): 1027-1036.
10. EBI Energy and Biodiversity Initiative. 2003. Integrating Biodiversity Conservation into Oil and Gas Development. Conservation International, 58 p. www.TheEBI.org.
11. IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas. 1994. Guidelines for protected area management categories. IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas with the assistance of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, R.U.
12. Lahm, S.A. et J.P. Tezi. 2006. Assessment of the communities of medium-sized and large arboreal and terrestrial mammals in the Rabi/Toucan region of the Ngové-Ndogo hunting domain and southwestern Loango National Park. In: Alonso, A., M.E. Lee, P. Campbell, O.S.G. Pauwels et F. Dallmeier, éds., Gamba, Gabon: Biodiversité d'une forêt équatoriale africaine. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, No. 12.
13. Laurance, W.F. 2000. Do edge effects occur over large spatial scales? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15(4): 134-135.
14. Laurance, W.F., Alonso, M. Lee et P. Campbell. Sous presse a. Challenges for forest conservation in Gabon, Central Africa. Futures.
15. Laurance, W.F., B.M. Croes, L. Tchignoumba, S.A. Lahm, A. Alonso, M. Lee, P. Campbell et C. Ondzeano. Sous presse b. Impacts of roads and hunting on central-African rainforest mammals. Conservation Biology.
16. Lee, M.E., A. Alonso, F. Dallmeier, P. Campbell et O.S.G. Pauwels. 2006. The Gamba Complex of Protected Areas: An Illustration of Gabon's Biodiversity. In: Alonso, A., M.E. Lee, P. Campbell, O.S.G. Pauwels et F. Dallmeier, éds., Gamba, Gabon: Biodiversité d'une forêt équatoriale africaine. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, No. 12.
17. Mamonekene, V., S. Lavoué, O.S.G. Pauwels, J.H. Mve Beh, J.E. Mackayah et L. Tchignoumba. 2006. Fish diversity at Rabi and Gamba, Ogooué-Maritime, Gabon. In: Alonso, A., M.E. Lee, P. Campbell, O.S.G. Pauwels et F. Dallmeier, éds., Gamba, Gabon: Biodiversité d'une forêt équatoriale africaine. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, No. 12.
18. Mebiame, J.B. 2004. Second rapport national sur la diversité biologique. Observatoire national de la biodiversité, République gabonaise, 57 p. http://www.biodiv.org/doc/world/ga/ga-nr-02-p1-fr.pdf.
19. O'Brien, C., W. McShea, S. Guimondou, P. Barrière et M.D. Carleton. 2006. Terrestrial small mammals (Soricidae and Muridae) from the Gamba Complex of Protected Areas, Gabon: species composition and comparison of sampling techniques. In: Alonso, A., M.E. Lee, P. Campbell, O.S.G. Pauwels et F. Dallmeier, éds., Gamba, Gabon: Biodiversité d'une forêt équatoriale africaine. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, No. 12.
20. Pauwels, O.S.G., M. Burger, W.R. Branch, E. Tobi, J.A. Yoga et E.N. Mikolo. 2006. Reptiles of the Gamba Complex of Protected Areas, southwestern Gabon. In: Alonso, A., M.E. Lee, P. Campbell, O.S.G. Pauwels et F. Dallmeier, éds., Gamba, Gabon: Biodiversité d'une forêt équatoriale africaine. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, No. 12.
21. Pauwels, O.S.G. et J.P. Vande weghe. 2005. Les espèces exotiques invasives. Pp. 191-193 in: Vande weghe, J.P. Akanda et Pongara. Plages et mangroves. Les Parcs nationaux du Gabon. Wildlife Conservation Society, Libreville, Gabon, 208 p.
22. Pauwels, O.S.G., V. Wallach, J.P. Biteau, C. Chimsunchart, J.A. Yoga et B.C. O'Heix. 2004. First record of Ramphotyphlops braminus from Gabon, western-central Africa. Hamadryad 29(1): 138-139.
23. Primus, A., J. Harvey, S. Guimondou, S. Mboumba, R. Ngangui, F. Hoffman, R. Baker et C. Porter. 2006. Karyology and chromosomal evolution of some small mammals inhabiting the rainforest of the Rabi oilfield, Gabon. In: Alonso, A., M.E. Lee, P. Campbell, O.S.G. Pauwels et F. Dallmeier, éds., Gamba, Gabon: Biodiversité d'une forêt équatoriale africaine. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, No. 12.
24. Rodriguez, R.M., F.G. Hoffmann, C.A. Porter et R.J. Baker. 2006. The bat community of the Rabi Oilfield, in the Gamba Complex of Protected Areas, Gabon. In: Alonso, A., M.E. Lee, P. Campbell, O.S.G. Pauwels et F. Dallmeier, éds., Gamba, Gabon: Biodiversité d'une forêt équatoriale africaine. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, No. 12.
25. Rosenbaum, H. et T. Collins. 2006. The ecology, population characteristics and conservation efforts for Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) on their wintering grounds in the coastal waters of Gabon. In: Alonso, A., M.E. Lee, P. Campbell, O.S.G. Pauwels et F. Dallmeier, éds., Gamba, Gabon: Biodiversité d'une forêt équatoriale africaine. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, No. 12.
26. Stevart, T. et V. Droissart. 2006. Diversity of orchids in the Gamba Complex of Protected Areas, Gabon. In: Alonso, A., M.E. Lee, P. Campbell, O.S.G. Pauwels et F. Dallmeier, éds., Gamba, Gabon: Biodiversité d'une forêt équatoriale africaine. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, No. 12.
27. Thibault, M. et S. Blaney. 2003. The oil industry as an underlying factor in the bushmeat crisis in central Africa. Conservation Biology 17(6): 1807-1813.
28. Trebaol, L. et C. Chaillol. 2002. Environmental and social impacts of oil industry activities in central Africa: a case study on the Gamba Protected Areas Complex (Gabon). World Wide Fund for Nature, Gamba, Gabon.
29. Wilkie, D.S., M. Starkey, K. Abernathy, E.N. Effa, P. Telfer et R. Godoy. 2005. Role of prices and wealth in consumer demand for bushmeat in Gabon, central Africa. Conservation Biology 19:268-274.
30. WWF. 2003. Strategy for the management of the Gamba Complex of Protected Areas, Gabon (2003-2008). Rapport non publié.