Are Hylobates lar Extirpated from China?

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 553-567

  Grueter, Cyril C ^a,b   Jiang, Xuelong ^c   Konrad, Roger ^a   Fan, Pengfei ^d   Guan, Zhenhua ^c   Geissmann, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^d DALI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ape; China; Extinction; Gibbon; Hylobates lar; Yunnan Province

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; NATURE RESERVE; POPULATION DECLINE; PRIMATE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NANGUNHE NATURE RESERVE; YUNNAN;

HAPLORHINI; HYLOBATES LAR; HYLOBATIDAE;

EID: 70349992946     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10764-009-9360-3     Document Type: Article

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