Assessment of landscape-scale distribution of sympatric great apes in African rainforests: Concurrent use of nest and camera-trap surveys

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1220-1230

  Nakashima, Yoshihiro ^a   Iwata, Yuji ^b   Ando, Chieko ^a   Nze Nkoguee, Chimene ^c   Inoue, Eiji ^a   Akomo, Etienne Francois Okoue ^c   Nguema, Philippe Mbehang ^c   Bineni, Thierry Diop ^c   Banak, Ludovic Ngok ^c   Takenoshita, Yuji ^b   Ngomanda, Alfred ^c   Yamagiwa, Juichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHUBU GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Institut de Recherches en Ecologie Tropicale   (Gabon)

Author keywords

Camera trap; Distance sampling; Gabon; Nest; Sympatric apes

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; MONTANE FOREST; NEST SITE; PRIMATE; RAINFOREST; SAMPLING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVEY; SYMPATRY; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION; VEGETATION TYPE;

GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CAMERA TRAP; DISTANCE SAMPLING; GABON; GORILLA; NEST; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SYMPATRIC APES;

CAMERA TRAP; DISTANCE SAMPLING; GABON; NEST; SYMPATRIC APES;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMING BEHAVIOR; PAN TROGLODYTES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84885421560     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22185     Document Type: Article

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