A major increase in the population of brown lemurs on Mayotte since the decline reported in 1987

ORYX

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 297-300

  Tarnaud, Laurent ^a,b   Simmen, Bruno ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Brown lemur; Cyclone; Eulemur fulvus fulvus; Indian ocean; Mayotte; Population census; Primate

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; DISTURBANCE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIMATE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MAYOTTE;

EULEMUR FULVUS; EULEMUR FULVUS FULVUS; LEMUR; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 3543010017     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605302000522     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. DAF/SEF (1999). Vegetation map of Mayotte In La Faune Terrestre de Mayotte (ed. M. Louette), Annales du Muséum Royal d'Afrique Centrale (Sciences Zoologiques), 284, 1-248.
2. Decker, B.S. (1994) Effect of habitat disturbance on the behavioural ecology and demography of the Tana River Red Colobus (C. b. reformitratus). International Journal of Primatology, 15, 703-737.
3. Dittus, W.P.J. (1985) The influence of cyclones on the dry evergreen forest of Sri Lanka. Biotropica, 17, 1-14.
4. Gresse, M., Gandon, B., Tarnaud, L., Simmen, B., Labat, J.-N. & Hladik, C.M. (2002) Conservation et introduction de lémuriens sur l'îlot Mbouzi (Mayotte). Revue d'Ecologie (Terre et Vie), 57, 75-82.
5. Harpet, C. & Tarnaud, L. (2000) Eulemur fulvus mayottensis, un lémurien unique à Mayotte. Bulletin de l'Association des Naturalistes Historiens et Géographes de Mayotte, 4, 38-48.
6. Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler) (2000) 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK.
7. Liszkowski, H.D. (1997) Répertoire des sites archéologiques de Mayotte. SHAM, St Médard en Jalles, France.
8. Louette, M. (ed.) (1999) La Faune Terrestre de Mayotte. Annales du Muséum Royal d'Afrique Centrale (Sciences Zoologiques), 284, 1-248.
9. Mittermeier, R.A., Tattersall, I., Konstant, W.R., Meyers, D.M. & Mast, R.B. (1994) Lemurs of Madagascar. Conservation International, Washington D.C., USA.
10. Pascal, O. (1997). La végétation naturelle à Mayotte, études quantitatives et qualitatives. Rapport DAF/SEF, Mayotte.
11. Pascal, O., Labat, J.-N. & Pignal, M. (in press) Diversité, affinités phytogéographiqucs et origine présumée de la flore de Mayotte (Archipel des Comores). Systematics and Geography of Plants.
12. Schlegel, H. (1866) Contributions de la faune de Madagascar et des îles avoisinantes. Nederlands Tijdschrifl voor Dierkunde, 3, 73-89.
13. Tattersall, I. (1977a) Ecology and behavior of Lemur fulvus mayottensis (Primates, Lemuriformes). Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 52, 195-216.
14. Tattersall, I. (1977b) The Lemurs of the Comoro Islands. Oryx, 13, 445-448.
15. Tattersall, I. (1989) The Mayotte lemur: cause for alarm. Primate Conservation, 10, 26-27.