Oil prospecting and its impact on large rainforest mammals in Loango National Park, Gabon

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1017-1024

  Rabanal, Luisa I ^a   Kuehl, Hjalmar S ^a   Mundry, Roger ^a   Robbins, Martha M ^a   Boesch, Christophe ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apes; Elephants; Noise disturbance; Oil exploration; Seismic activities; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

DEER; ELEPHANT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXTRACTION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT QUALITY; HOME RANGE; LOGGING (TIMBER); NATIONAL PARK; NOISE POLLUTION; OIL PRODUCTION; PRIMATE; PROTECTED AREA; RAINFOREST; SEISMIC METHOD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

GABON; LOANGO NATIONAL PARK; OGOOUE MARITIME;

CEPHALOPHUS; CERCOCEBUS; CERCOCEBUS TORQUATUS; CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS CEPHUS; CERCOPITHECUS NICTITANS; CERCOPITHECUS POGONIAS; ELEPHANTIDAE; GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA; LOPHOCEBUS ALBIGENA; MAMMALIA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES;

EID: 77649234457     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.01.017     Document Type: Article

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