Mattia Bessone, Hjalmar S Kühl, Gottfried Hohmann, Ilka Herbinger, K Paul N'Goran, Papy Asanzi, Pedro B Da Costa, Violette Dérozier, D B Ernest Fotsing, B Beka Ikembelo, D Mpongo Iyomi, B Iyomi Iyatshi, Pierre Kafando, A Mbangi Kambere, B Dissondet Moundzoho, L Kako Musubaho, Barbara Fruth
Habitat destruction and over-hunting are increasingly threatening the arboreal primates of Central Africa. To establish effective conservation strategies, accurate assessments of primate density, abundance, and spatial distribution are required. To date, the method of choice for primate density estimation is line transect distance sampling. However, primates fleeing human observers violate methodological assumptions, biasing the accuracy of resulting estimates. In this study, we used line transect distance sampling to study five primate species along 378 km of transects in Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo...
December 9, 2022: Primates; Journal of Primatology