Effective non-invasive genetic monitoring of multiple wild western gorilla groups

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1780-1791

  Arandjelovic, M ^a   Head, J ^a   Kuhl H ^a   Boesch, C ^a   Robbins, M M ^a   Maisels, F ^b,c   Vigilant, L ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Chimpanzee; Genotyping; Microsatellite; Population estimate; Survey

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOMONITORING; CAPTURE METHOD; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HOMINID; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

GABON; LOANGO NATIONAL PARK; OGOOUE MARITIME;

EID: 77954816521     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.04.030     Document Type: Article

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