Recent decline in suitable environmental conditions for African great apes

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1077-1091

  Junker, Jessica ^a   Blake, Stephen ^b   Boesch, Christophe ^a,c   Campbell, Geneviève ^a   Toit, Louwrens du ^a   Duvall, Chris ^d   Ekobo, Atanga ^e   Etoga, Gilles ^e   Galat Luong, Anh ^f   Gamys, Joel ^g   Ganas Swaray, Jessica ^h   Gatti, Sylvain ⁱ   Ghiurghi, Andrea ^j   Granier, Nicolas ^k   Hart, John ^l   Head, Josephine ^a   Herbinger, Ilka ^m   Hicks, Thurston Cleveland ^a   Huijbregts, Bas ⁿ   Imong, Inaoyom S ^a,o   Kuempel, Noëlle ^p   Lahm, Sally ^q   Lindsell, Jeremy ^r   Maisels, Fiona ^o,s   McLennan, Matthew ^t   Martinez, Laura ^u   Morgan, Bethan ^v   Morgan, David ^o,w   Mulindahabi, Felix ^o   Mundry, Roger ^a   N'Goran, Kouamé Paul ^c,x,y   Normand, Emmanuelle ^c   Ntongho, Anne ^e   Okon, David Tiku ^e   Petre, Charles Albert ^k   Plumptre, Andrew ^o   Rainey, Hugo ^o   Regnaut, Sébastien ^c   Sanz, Crickette ^o,z   Stokes, Emma ^o   Tondossama, Adama ^aa   Tranquilli, Sandra ^a,ab   Sunderland Groves, Jacqueline ^ac   Walsh, Peter ^ad   Warren, Ymke ^o   Williamson, Elizabeth A ^s   Kuehl, Hjalmar S ^a   more..

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Wild Chimpanzee Foundation   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e WWF Central Africa Regional Programme Office   (Cameroon)

^f INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^g Conservation International ^*  (Liberia)

^h Zoological Society of Milwaukee   (United States)

ⁱ West African Primate Conservation Action   (Ghana)

^j AGRECO   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^l Lukuru Wildlife Research Foundation   (Congo)

^m WWF Germany   (Germany)

ⁿ WWF Central Africa Regional Programme Office (CARPO)   (Gabon)

^o WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^p ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^q Institut de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale   (Gabon)

^r RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^s UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^t OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^u Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^v INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^w LINCOLN PARK ZOO   (United States)

^x CENTRE SUISSE DE RECHERCHES SCIENTIFIQUES EN CÔTE D'IVOIRE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^y UNIVERSITÉ NANGUI ABROGOUA   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^z WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^aa Office Ivoirien des Parcs et Réserves   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^ab UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^ac CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Bonobo; Chimpanzee; Distribution; Gorilla; IUCN SSC A.P.E.S. database; Logistic regression; Spatial model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONSERVATION STATUS; DATA SET; DATABASE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY MAKING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITIZATION; RESOLUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA;

HOMINIDAE; PAN; PAN PANISCUS;

EID: 84867399950     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12005     Document Type: Article

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