Specialist primates can be flexible in response to habitat Alteration

Primates in Fragments: Complexity and Resilience

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 199-211

  Nowak, Katarzyna ^a   Lee, Phyllis C ^b  

^a Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Center   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8839-2_14     Document Type: Chapter

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