Population density and habitat preferences of forest duikers in moukalaba-doudou national Park, Gabon

African Zoology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 395-399

  Nakashima, Yoshihiro ^a   Inoue, Eiji ^a   Akomo Okoue, Etienne François ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Insititut de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale CENAREST   (Gabon)

Author keywords

Cephalophus; density; distance sampling; forest antelope; rainforest

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; HABITAT SELECTION; POPULATION DENSITY; RAINFOREST; TRANSECT; VEGETATION TYPE;

GABON;

EID: 84890539120     PISSN: 15627020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3377/004.048.0212     Document Type: Article

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