Long-Term Field Data and Climate-Habitat Models Show That Orangutan Persistence Depends on Effective Forest Management and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Gregory, Stephen D ^a   Brook, Barry W ^a   Goossens, Benoît ^b,c,g   Ancrenaz, Marc ^d,e,g   Alfred, Raymond ^f   Ambu, Laurentius N ^g   Fordham, Damien A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary   (Malaysia)

^d Hutan/Kinabatangan Orang utan Conservation Programme   (Malaysia)

^e CHESTER ZOO   (United Kingdom)

^f Borneo Conservation Trust   (Malaysia)

^g SABAH WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; BORNEO; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FIELD STUDY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LAND USE; NESTING; ORANG UTAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BORNEO; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; GASES; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MALAYSIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PONGO; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

MAMMALIA; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 84866111790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043846     Document Type: Article

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