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Martha M. Robbins
Researcher at Max Planck Society
Publications - 196
Citations - 11167
Martha M. Robbins is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gorilla & Population. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 185 publications receiving 9790 citations. Previous affiliations of Martha M. Robbins include University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Recent divergences and size decreases of eastern gorilla populations
Justin Roy,Mimi Arandjelovic,Brenda J. Bradley,Katerina Guschanski,Colleen R. Stephens,Dan Bucknell,Henry Cirhuza,Chifundera Kusamba,Jean Claude Kyungu,Vince Smith,Martha M. Robbins,Linda Vigilant +11 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that eastern lowland gorillas and mountain gorillas split beginning some 10 000 years ago, followed 5000 years ago by the split of the two mountain gorilla populations of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and the Virungas Massif.
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Lifetime reproductive success of female mountain gorillas
TL;DR: Results for LRS were similar to another standard fitness measurement, the individually estimated finite rate of increase (λ(ind), but λ(ind) showed diminishing benefits for greater longevity, while females with higher LRS had significantly longer adult lifespans and higher dominance ranks.
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Male body size, dominance rank and strategic use of aggression in a group-living mammal
Edward Wright,Jordi Galbany,Shannon C. McFarlin,Eric Ndayishimiye,Tara S. Stoinski,Martha M. Robbins +5 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that factors other than body size are likely to influence dominance rank, but large size helps males attain and retain high dominanceRank, probably leading to greater reproductive success.
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Challenges in the use of genetic mark-recapture to estimate the population size of Bwindi mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei)
Justin Roy,Linda Vigilant,Maryke Gray,Edward Wright,Raymond Kato,Peter Kabano,Augustin Kanyunyi Basabose,Emmanuel Tibenda,Hjalmar S. Kühl,Martha M. Robbins +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a mark-recapture method to estimate the number of mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, and found that a notable proportion of gorillas were missed in either of the two sweeps (minimum 35% and 31%, respectively).
RESEARCH ARTICLE Long-Term Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Food Availability for Endangered Mountain Gorillas in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
Cyril C. Grueter,Ferdinand Ndamiyabo,Andrew J. Plumptre,Didier Abavandimwe,Roger,Katie A. Fawcett,Martha M. Robbins,Max Planck +7 more
TL;DR: The changes in the species most commonly consumed by the gorillas could affect their nutrient intake and stresses the importance of monitoring the interrelation among plant population dynamics, species density, and resource use.