Understanding the Impacts of Land-Use Policies on a Threatened Species: Is There a Future for the Bornean Orang-utan?

A. Wich, Serge; Gaveau, David; K. Abram, Nicola; Ancrenaz, Marc; Baccini, Alessandro; Brend, Stephen; M. Curran, Lisa; A. Delgado, Roberto; Erman, Andi; Fredriksson, Gabriella; Goossens, Benoît; J. Husson, Simon; Lackman, Isabelle; J. Marshall, Andrew; Naomi, Anita; Molidena, Elis; , Nardiyono; Nurcahyo, Anton; Odom, Kisar; Panda, Adventus; Purnomo, Purnomo; Rafiastanto, Andjar; Ratnasari, Dessy; H. Santana, Adi; sapari, Imam; P. van Schaik, Carel; Sihite, Jamartin; Spehar, Stephanie; Santoso, Eddy; Suyoko, Amat; Tiju, Albertus; Usher, Graham; Suci Utami Atmoko, Sri; P. Willems, Erik; Meijaard, Erik

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049142

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Understanding the Impacts of Land-Use Policies on a Threatened Species: Is There a Future for the Bornean Orang-utan?

Published in PLoS ONE • Nov 7, 2012

Authors:

Serge A. Wich

David Gaveau

Nicola K. Abram

Abstract

The geographic distribution of Bornean orang-utans and its overlap with existing land-use categories (protected areas, logging and plantation concessions) is a necessary foundation to prioritize conservation planning. Based on an extensive orang-utan survey dataset and a number of environmental vari...

Subject

Threatened species

Geography

Distribution (mathematics)

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