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Pauwel De Wachter
Researcher at World Wide Fund for Nature
Publications - 3
Citations - 794
Pauwel De Wachter is an academic researcher from World Wide Fund for Nature. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gorilla & Population. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 747 citations.
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Catastrophic ape decline in western equatorial Africa
Peter D. Walsh,Kate Abernethy,Magdalena Bermejo,Rene Beyers,Pauwel De Wachter,Marc Ella Akou,Bas Huijbregts,Daniel Idiata Mambounga,Andre Kamdem Toham,Annelisa M. Kilbourn,Sally A. Lahm,Stefanie Latour,Fiona Maisels,Fiona Maisels,Chrisitian Mbina,Yves Mihindou,Sosthéne Ndong Obiang,Ernestine Ntsame Effa,Malcolm Starkey,Malcolm Starkey,Paul Telfer,Marc Thibault,Caroline E. G. Tutin,Lee J. T. White,David Wilkie +24 more
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.
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Ebola and the decline of gorilla Gorilla gorilla and chimpanzee Pan troglodytes populations in Minkebe Forest, north-eastern Gabon
TL;DR: Data from nearby sites indicate that the epidemic was limited to the Minkebe Forest, and a catastrophic decline in ape populations in the area is believed to have been caused by a disease epidemic.
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Guns, germs, and trees determine density and distribution of gorillas and chimpanzees in Western Equatorial Africa
Samantha Strindberg,Fiona Maisels,Fiona Maisels,Elizabeth A. Williamson,Stephen Blake,Stephen Blake,Emma J. Stokes,Rostand Aba’a,Gaspard Abitsi,Anthony Agbor,Anthony Agbor,Ruffin D. Ambahe,Parfait C. Bakabana,Martha Bechem,Antoine Berlemont,Bruno Bokoto de Semboli,Patrick Boundja,Nicolas Bout,Thomas Breuer,Geneviève Campbell,Pauwel De Wachter,Marc Ella Akou,Fidel Esono,Anna T.C. Feistner,Bernard Fosso,Roger Fotso,David Greer,Clement Inkamba-Nkulu,Calixte F. Iyenguet,Kathryn J. Jeffery,Max Kokangoye,Hjalmar S. Kühl,Hjalmar S. Kühl,Stephanie Latour,Stephanie Latour,Bola Madzoké,Calixte Makoumbou,Guy-Aimé F. Malanda,Richard Malonga,Victor Mbolo,David Morgan,David Morgan,Prosper Motsaba,Gabin Moukala,Brice S. Mowawa,Mizuki Murai,Mizuki Murai,Christian Ndzai,Tomoaki Nishihara,Zacharie Nzooh,Lilian Pintea,Amy A Pokempner,Hugo Rainey,Tim Rayden,Heidi Ruffler,Crickette M. Sanz,Crickette M. Sanz,Angelique Todd,Hilde Vanleeuwe,Ashley Vosper,Ymke Warren,David Wilkie +61 more
TL;DR: A range-wide assessment of sympatric western lowland gorillas and central chimpanzees using the largest survey data set ever assembled for these taxa, which predicted density across each taxon’s geographic range, allowing for overall abundance to be significantly higher than previous estimates.