Effective population size dynamics and the demographic collapse of Bornean orang-utans.

Bornean orang-utans experienced a major demographic decline and local extirpations during the Pleistocene and Holocene due to climate change, the arrival of modern humans, of farmers and recent commercially-driven habitat loss and fragmentation. The recent loss of habitat and its dramatic fragmentat...

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Main Authors: Reeta Sharma, Natasha Arora, Benoit Goossens, Alexander Nater, Nadja Morf, Jordi Salmona, Michael W Bruford, Carel P Van Schaik, Michael Krützen, Lounès Chikhi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3499548?pdf=render