Sylvain Gatti

TL;DR: The large population of western lowland gorillas, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, monitored since 2001 at the Lokoue clearing, Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Congo, was affected in 2004, providing the opportunity to address both questions using an original statistical approach mixing capture–recapture and epidemiological models.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a maximum entropy algorithm and logistic regression to predict the distribution of suitable environmental conditions (SEC) for eight African great ape taxa for a first time period, the 1990s and then project it to a second time period (the 2000s) to assess the relative importance of factors influencing SEC distribution and to estimate rates of SEC loss, isolation and fragmentation over the last two decades.

TL;DR: It is found that the long-term presence of conservation activities (such as law enforcement, research and tourism) was associated with lower threat impact levels and management effectiveness of several PAs across tropical Africa, and it is concluded that PA management should invest more into conservation activities with long- term duration.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated how the lack of conservation effort influences the extinction risk of African great apes and found that law enforcement as a primary activity was the best predictor of ape survival rather than tourism or research as secondary activities.

TL;DR: Differences in resource competition and dispersal costs between female and male gorillas are compatible with the observed pattern, but more work is needed to understand if these ultimate causes are responsible for sex‐biased dispersal distances in western lowland gorillas.