Novel survey method finds dramatic decline of wild cotton-top tamarin population

Nature Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Savage, Anne ^a   Thomas, Len ^b   Leighty, Katherine A ^a   Soto, Luis H ^c   Medina, Felix S ^c  

^a DISNEY S ANIMAL KINGDOM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c Fundacion Proyecto Titi   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON TOP TAMARIN; FOREST; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; REMOTE SENSING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES HABITAT; TERRITORIALITY; UNITED STATES; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SAGUINUS;

ANIMALIA; GOSSYPIUM THURBERI; PRIMATES; SAGUINUS OEDIPUS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; SAGUINUS;

EID: 84859130662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1030     Document Type: Article

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