Variation in physiological health of diademed sifakas across intact and fragmented forest at Tsinjoarivo, eastern Madagascar

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1013-1025

  Irwin, Mitchell T ^a   Junge, Randall E ^b   Raharison, Jean Luc ^c   Samonds, And Karen E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b St Louis Zoological Park   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTANANARIVO   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Conservation; Habitat fragmentation; Madagascar; Physiology; Propithecus diadema

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CENSUS; CONSPECIFIC; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; PRIMATE; SERUM; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL;

ANTANANARIVO [MADAGASCAR]; MADAGASCAR; TSINJOARIVO FOREST;

LEMURIDAE; PRIMATES; PROPITHECUS; PROPITHECUS DIADEMA;

IRON; MINERAL; PLASMA PROTEIN; SELENIUM; VITAMIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MADAGASCAR; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSIMIAN; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PROTEINS; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; INFECTION; IRON; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MADAGASCAR; MALE; MINERALS; SELENIUM; STREPSIRHINI; VITAMINS;

EID: 79952116941     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20847     Document Type: Article

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