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A novel landscape genetic approach demonstrates the effects of human disturbance on the Udzungwa red colobus monkey (Procolobus gordonorum).
Heredity - 1 Feb 2016
Ruiz-Lopez M J, Barelli C, Rovero F, Hodges K, Roos C, Peterman W E, Ting N
Abstract excerpt
A comprehensive understanding of how human disturbance affects tropical forest ecosystems is critical for the mitigation of future losses in global biodiversity. Although many genetic studies of tropical forest fragmentation have been conducted to provide insight into this issue, relatively few have incorporated landscape data to explicitly test the effects of human disturbance on genetic differentiation among...
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