Elleni Vendras

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: 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.

TL;DR: Using bioclimatic variables representing monthly temperature and precipitation estimates, past human population density data, and an extensive database of georeferenced presence points, the authors built a model of changing habitat suitability for chimpanzees at fine spatio-temporal scales dating back to the Last Interglacial (120,000 BP).