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Chimpanzee population structure in Cameroon and Nigeria is associated with habitat variation that may be lost under climate change

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, January 2015
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Title
Chimpanzee population structure in Cameroon and Nigeria is associated with habitat variation that may be lost under climate change
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, January 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12862-014-0275-z
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Authors

Paul R Sesink Clee, Ekwoge E Abwe, Ruffin D Ambahe, Nicola M Anthony, Roger Fotso, Sabrina Locatelli, Fiona Maisels, Matthew W Mitchell, Bethan J Morgan, Amy A Pokempner, Mary Katherine Gonder

Abstract

The Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) is found in the Gulf of Guinea biodiversity hotspot located in western equatorial Africa. This subspecies is threatened by habitat fragmentation due to logging and agricultural development, hunting for the bushmeat trade, and possibly climate change. Although P. t. ellioti appears to be geographically separated from the neighboring central chimpanzee (P. t. troglodytes) by the Sanaga River, recent population genetics studies of chimpanzees from across this region suggest that additional factors may also be important in their separation. The main aims of this study were: 1) to model the distribution of suitable habitat for P. t. ellioti across Cameroon and Nigeria, and P. t. troglodytes in southern Cameroon, 2) to determine which environmental factors best predict their optimal habitats, and 3) to compare modeled niches and test for their levels of divergence from one another. A final aim of this study was to examine the ways that climate change might impact suitable chimpanzee habitat across the region under various scenarios.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Peru 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 165 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 22%
Student > Master 25 15%
Researcher 20 12%
Student > Bachelor 17 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 6%
Other 34 20%
Unknown 26 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 61 36%
Environmental Science 28 16%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 6%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 7 4%
Social Sciences 5 3%
Other 24 14%
Unknown 35 21%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 176. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 March 2019.
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