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Tropical forest logging—primates and can they co-exist?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Andrew D. Johns
Andrew D. Johns
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Sub-Department of Veterinary Anatomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB21QS, UK.
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The destruction of tropical forests is perhaps one of the most widely discussed conservation problems of our time. But still scientists know relatively little about the ecosystem as a whole and, more specifically, little about the effects of, for example, selective logging on other forest species. The author, investigating the response of primates to logging in West Malaysia, discovered that, although logging initially causes mortality, the populations of the species he studied all recovered rapidly if the forest was left to regenerate.

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Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , July 1983 , pp. 114 - 118
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1983

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