Response of a group of Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys to commercial logging in the Qinling Mountains, China

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1055-1064

  Guo, Songtao ^a   Ji, Weihong ^b   Li, Baoguo ^a   Li, Ming ^c  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Commercial logging; Habitat modification; Primate diet; Primate range shift; Qinling Mountains; Rhinopithecus roxellana; Sichuan snub nosed monkey

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT USE; HOME RANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LOGGING (TIMBER); POPULATION SIZE; PRIMATE; SITE FIDELITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; COLOBINAE; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CHINA; COLOBINAE; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINLING MOUNTAINS;

PRIMATES; PYGATHRIX ROXELLANA;

EID: 48749104821     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00975.x     Document Type: Article

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