Kate Abernethy

TL;DR: These findings suggest that tropical protected areas are often intimately linked ecologically to their surrounding habitats, and that a failure to stem broad-scale loss and degradation of such habitats could sharply increase the likelihood of serious biodiversity declines.

TL;DR: Survey results conservatively indicate that ape populations in Gabon declined by more than half between 1983 and 2000, and gorillas and common chimpanzees should be elevated immediately to ‘critically endangered’ status.

TL;DR: The structure of a hybrid zone in Argyll, Scotland, between native red deer and introduced Japanese sika deer is described, on the basis of a genetic analysis using 11 microsatellite markers and mitochondrial DNA, to conclude that the deer fall into two distinct genetic classes, corresponding to either a sika-like or red-like phenotype.