Recovery potential of a western Lowland Gorilla population following a major Ebola outbreak: Results from a ten year study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Genton, Céline ^a   Cristescu, Romane ^b   Gatti, Sylvain ^a   Levréro, Florence ^a,c   Bigot, Elodie ^a   Caillaud, Damien ^d   Pierre, Jean Sébastien ^a   Ménard, Nelly ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BREEDING; CONGO; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOREST; GORILLA; IMMIGRATION; MALE; MORTALITY; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POPULATION RECOVERY; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; TAXON; WESTERN LOWLAND GORILLA; WILDLIFE; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; APE DISEASE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; OBSERVATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIROLOGY;

GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; APE DISEASES; CONGO; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OBSERVATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84861369931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037106     Document Type: Article

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