Declining orangutan encounter rates from wallace to the present suggest the species was once more abundant

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Meijaard, Erik ^a,b   Welsh, Alan ^b   Ancrenaz, Marc ^c   Wich, Serge ^d,e   Nijman, Vincent ^f,g   Marshall, Andrew J ^h  

^a Jalan Raya Petitenget 1000X   (Indonesia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Kinabatangan Orangutan Conservation Project   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme   (Indonesia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; BORNEO; HABITAT; INFORMATION CENTER; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; POPULATION DENSITY; TREND STUDY; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALIA; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS PYGMAEUS;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MUSEUMS; PONGO PYGMAEUS; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77957807624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012042     Document Type: Article

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