Effects of logging on orangutan behavior

Biological Conservation

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 177-187

  Hardus, Madeleine E ^a   Lameira, Adriano R ^b   Menken, Steph B J ^a   Wich, Serge A ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme PanEco YEL   (Indonesia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Activity budgets; Conservation; Diet composition; Logging; Pongo abelli; Sumatran orangutan

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DIET; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GUIDELINE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LOGGING (TIMBER); POPULATION DENSITY; PRIMATE; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ACEH; INDONESIA; KETAMBE;

HOMINIDAE; PONGO; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS ABELII;

EID: 84857454072     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.12.014     Document Type: Article

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