Reductions in Primate Abundance and Diversity in a Multiuse Protected Area: Synergistic Impacts of Hunting and Logging in a Congo Basin Forest

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 602-612

  Remis, Melissa J ^a   Jost Robinson, Carolyn A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Africa; Conservation management; Guns; Primate communities

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DIURNAL VARIATION; HUNTING; LINE TRANSECT; LOGGING (TIMBER); POACHING; POPULATION DECLINE; PRIMATE; PROTECTED AREA; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VULNERABILITY;

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; CONGO BASIN; DZANGA-SANGHA DENSE FOREST RESERVE;

CERCOPITHECUS NICTITANS; LOPHOCEBUS ALBIGENA; PRIMATES; UNGULATA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; CERCOPITHECUS; COLOBINAE; CONGO; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; FIREARM; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; TREE;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; CERCOPITHECUS; COLOBINAE; CONGO; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FIREARMS; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; TREES;

EID: 84861547866     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22012     Document Type: Article

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