Populaton ecology of vervet monkeys in a high lattude, semi-arid riparian woodland

Koedoe

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Pasternak, Graham ^a,b   Brown, Leslie R ^b   Kienzle, Stefan ^a,b   Fuller, Andrea ^c   Barrett, Louise ^a,b   Peter Henzi, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; HABITAT USE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ECOLOGY; PRIMATE; RIPARIAN ZONE; SEMIARID REGION; WOODLAND;

KAROO; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84874383767     PISSN: 00756458     EISSN: 20710771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4102/koedoe.v55i1.1078     Document Type: Article

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