Adam Welsh

TL;DR: It is shown that chimpanzees exhibit greater behavioural diversity in environments with more variability — in both recent and historical timescales, suggesting that environmental variability was a critical evolutionary force promoting the behavioural, as well as cultural diversification of great apes.

TL;DR: The results support the view that “culturally significant units” should be integrated into wildlife conservation and show that chimpanzees inhabiting areas with high human impact have a mean probability of occurrence reduced by 88%, across all behaviors, compared to low-impact areas.

TL;DR: The rate of population change for the western chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes verus, over a 24‐year period is assessed and a plea for greater commitment to conservation in West Africa across sectors is made.

TL;DR: The IUCN SSC Ape Populations, Environments and Surveys (A.P.E.S) database as mentioned in this paper was created as a repository for data on great apes and other primate taxa.

TL;DR: In this paper, a dataset of 17,109 chimpanzee survey transects (10,929 km) across nine countries and linked them to a range of social and ecological variables, and found that the western chimpanzee seemed to persist within three social-ecological configurations: first, rainforest habitats with a low degree of human impact, second, steep areas, and third, areas with high prevalence of hunting taboos.