Dietary flexibility of Bale monkeys (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis) in southern Ethiopia: effects of habitat degradation and life in fragments

Dietary flexibility of Bale monkeys (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis) in southern Ethiopia: effects of habitat degradation and life in fragments

Abstract Background Understanding the effects of habitat modification on the feeding strategies of threatened species is essential to designing effective conservation management plans. Bale monkeys (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis) are endemic to the rapidly shrinking montane forests of the southern Ethio...

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Main Authors: Addisu Mekonnen, Peter J. Fashing, Afework Bekele, R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Eli K. Rueness, Nils Chr. Stenseth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-02-01
Series:BMC Ecology
Subjects:
Bamboo
Continuous forest
Feeding ecology
Fragmented forest
Human-wildlife conflict
Specialist folivore
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12898-018-0161-4

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