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From Tree Species to Forest Services: Ethnic Differences in Lomami, Democratic Republic of the Congo
From tree species to forest services: ethnic differences in Lomami, Democratic Republic of the Congo . Ethnicity is well–known to affect plant...
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Impact of Hunting on the Lesula Monkey (Cercopithecus lomamiensis) in the Lomami River Basin, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Understanding the impact of hunting on wildlife is necessary to protect biodiversity in remote, endangered ecosystems, where rural communities depend...
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What Do We Know About Mammal Movements in African Tropical Forests?
Tropical forests have long fascinated people. These ecosystems are a source of food and water, medicine, clean air, materials to build houses, and...
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Genetics of Bonobos in the Lake Tumba Landscape
Documenting an important population of bonobos west of Lake Maindombe had critical implications for elucidating the biogeographical history of great...
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Qualitatively Describing Forests of the Landscape
Qualitative descriptions of different habitat types are an important part of ecological research. Hence, the chapter is a single-objective one and...
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Synopsis of Freshwaters, Species Diversity, and Conservation Issues
Freshwaters of Democratic Republic of Congo are poorly studied because of different factors, including the geographic spread of the country, lack of...
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Cold Discomfort: A Model to Explain Repetitive Linear Enamel Hypoplasia Among Pan troglodytes and Pan paniscus
A geographically and temporally widespread pattern of repetitive episodes of developmental stress, recorded as furrows of linear enamel hypoplasia...
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Congo River Basin
The Congo River is the second only to the Amazon in terms of size and freshwater species diversity. The basin covers 4 million km2. The basin has...
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Congo River Basin
The Congo River is the second only to the Amazon in terms of size and freshwater species diversity. The basin covers 4 million km2. The basin has...
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Human proximity and habitat fragmentation are key drivers of the rangewide bonobo distribution
Habitat loss and hunting threaten bonobos ( Pan paniscus ), Endangered (IUCN) great apes endemic to lowland rainforests of the Democratic Republic of...
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Identifying nascent wetland forest conversion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wetlands cover large areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, their extent and distribution have not been accurately mapped. While...
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A synopsis of Asclepias (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae) in tropical Africa
In preparation for two major regional Flora accounts, Asclepias has been reassessed in tropical Africa. 38 species not assigned to the allied genera Aspidoglossum...
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Human Hunting and its Impact on Bonobos in the Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
Hunting is one of the most important threats to many great ape populations, including bonobos, in central Africa (Kano and Asato 1994, Bowen-Jones...
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Range Occupation and Population Estimates of Bonobos in the Salonga National Park: Application to Large-scale Surveys of Bonobos in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Conservation of the bonobo, Congo’s endemic ape, is one of the most important conservation priorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)....
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Conservation of Red Colobus and Their Habitats
A review of the conservation status of red colobus indicates that ≥38.9% of the taxa are threatened with extinction in the near future. Although no...
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Biogeographic Analysis of Central African Forest Guenons
We analyzed biogeographic patterns of central African forest primates using a large locality sampling. Parsimony analyses of endemicity were...
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Terrestriality and the Maintenance of the Disjunct Geographical Distribution in the lhoesti Group
This chapter presents a hypothesis for the maintenance of the current geographical distribution of the lhoesti group. I have synthesized recent...
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Assessment of the Diversity of African Primates
This account of the systematics of African primates is the consensus view of a group of authors who attended the Workshop of the IUCN/SSC Primate...
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Bobgunnia, a new African genus of tribe Swartzieae (Fabaceae, Faboideae)
A new genus, Bobgunnia , is established in tribe Swartzieae for the African species of Swartzia . Two new combinations are made: B. fistuloides and B....