Applying Landscape Metrics to Characterize Potential Habitat of Bonobos (Pan paniscus) in the Maringa-Lopori-Wamba Landscape, Democratic Republic of Congo

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 381-400

  Hickey, Jena R ^a   Carroll, John P ^a   Nibbelink, Nathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bonobo; Edge density; Fragmentation; Landscape metrics; Pan paniscus

Indexed keywords

EDGE EFFECT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUNTING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; PRIMATE; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO;

HOMINIDAE; PAN PANISCUS;

EID: 84858794159     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10764-012-9581-8     Document Type: Article

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