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This paper is dedicated to Annelisa Kilbourn who died on 2 November 2002 in a plane crash en route to her Ebola research site. For support of ape survey work we thank USAID-CARPE, the DGIS, the MacArthur Foundation, WCS, WWF and the Republique Gabonaise. Funding for the socioeconomic surveys was provided by NSF. D. Purves, S. Sandin and J. Regetz provided helpful comments on statistical analyses.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Guyot Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, 08540, USA
Peter D. Walsh - Centre International de Recherches Médicales, BP 769, Franceville, Gabon
Kate A. Abernethy, Paul Telfer & Caroline E. G. Tutin - Department of Biological and Molecular Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, UK
Kate A. Abernethy & Caroline E. G. Tutin - Departamento Biología Animal (Vertebrados), Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Barcelona, Avda. Diagonal 645, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
Magdalena Bermejo - Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, New York, 10460-1099, USA
Rene Beyers, Annelisa M. Kilbourn, Stefanie Latour, Fiona Maisels, Christian Mbina, Yves Mihindou, Malcolm P. Starkey, Lee J. T. White & David S. Wilkie - WWF Central Africa Regional Program Office, BP 9144, Libreville, Gabon
Pauwel De Wachter, Marc Ella Akou, Bas Huijbregts, Andre Kamdem Toham & Marc Thibault - Ministère de l'Economie Forestière, des Eaux, de la Pêche chargé de l'Environnement et de la Protection de la Nature, Direction de la Faune et de la Chasse, BP 1128, Libreville, Gabon
Daniel Idiata Mambounga, Sosthène Ndong Obiang & Ernestine Ntsame Effa - Institut de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale, BP 13354, Libreville, Gabon
Sally A. Lahm - Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, UK
Fiona Maisels - Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, CB2 3EN, Cambridge, UK
Malcolm P. Starkey - Department of Anthropology, New York University, 25 Waverly Place, New York, New York, 10003, USA
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Walsh, P., Abernethy, K., Bermejo, M. et al. Catastrophic ape decline in western equatorial Africa.Nature 422, 611–614 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01566
- Received: 18 December 2002
- Accepted: 17 March 2003
- Published: 06 April 2003
- Issue Date: 10 April 2003
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01566