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Diversity and distribution of food plants: Implications for conservation of the critically endangered Hainan gibbon [PDF]

open access: yesNature Conservation, 2018
An understanding of the diversity and distribution patterns of Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) foods is essential to its conservation. We used data from plots in various successional stages and Pinus merkusii plantations (PF) of Bawangling National ...
Zhidong Zhang, Runguo Zang
doaj   +2 more sources

Assessing the effectiveness of public awareness-raising initiatives for the Hainan gibbon Nomascus hainanus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Many protected areas conduct awareness-raising activities to increase local knowledge and support conservation programmes, but the effectiveness of such activities is rarely assessed.
Turvey, ST, Mills, M, Ma, H, Qian, J
core   +1 more source

Differential loss of components of traditional ecological knowledge following a primate extinction event [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2018
Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), an important component of the modern conservation toolkit, is being eroded in indigenous communities around the world.
Samuel T. Turvey   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hainan gibbons (Nomascus hainanus) calls for passive acoustic monitoring

open access: yes, 2022
This dataset extends an existing one (10.5281/zenodo.3991714). Data accompanying the paper: "Passive Acoustic Monitoring and Transfer Learning" Please cite this dataset as: Dufourq, Emmanuel and Batist, Carly and Foquet, Ruben and Durbach, Ian. (2022)
Hansford, James P.   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Thermal infrared imaging from drones can detect individuals and nocturnal behavior of the world’s rarest primate

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Escalating anthropogenic pressures now threaten ~60% of primate species across the world with extinction. Developing effective evidence-based conservation for threatened primate species requires accurate and precise information on their population ...
Hui Zhang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Commercial drones can provide accurate and effective monitoring of the world's rarest primate

open access: yesRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2023
The recently established Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park has designated the Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) as its flagship species, providing new hope for recovery of the last surviving population of the world's rarest primate.
Hui Zhang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Recent Recovery of the World’s Rarest Primate Is Not Directly Linked to Increasing Habitat Quality

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Due to habitat loss and hunting, the Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus), the world’s rarest primate, was reduced to only two social groups and seven known individuals in 1978.
Yike Zou   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Food plant diversity determines home range area and formation of a new family group of the world’s rarest primate

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
Global primates are endangered, and thus it is important to know the determinants of primate population dynamics. It is widely reported that food plant diversity and nutrients are key determinants of many primate population dynamics.
Lu Wang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal variation of anthropogenic drivers predicts the distribution dynamics of Hainan gibbon

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation, 2023
Understanding the historical causes of species endangerment is vital, yet difficult. The Hainan gibbon Nomascus hainanus has declined in numbers dramatically in the last century, resulting in a single population on Hainan Island in China.
Yuke Zhang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Responses to Inter-group Encounters of the Hainan Gibbon Nomascus hainanus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The Hainan gibbon ( Nomascus hainanus ) is one of the most endangered primates and the least studied gibbon species in the fieldwork. In the past decades only a little information was known about its population size, population structure, habitat and ...
Zhou, Jiang   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

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