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Effective population size dynamics and the demographic collapse of Bornean orang-utans.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Sharma Reeta, Arora Natasha, Goossens Benoit, Nater Alexander, Morf Nadja, Salmona Jordi, Bruford Michael W, Van Schaik Carel P, Krützen Michael, Chikhi Lounès
Abstract excerpt
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 fragmentation has affected the patterns of genetic variability and differentiation among the remaining populations and...
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