African great ape layers
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Spatial Layers > African great ape layers
| Species | Shapefile | GeoJSON | Year | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All African great apes except bonobos and Grauer's gorillas | Predicted African great ape density distribution shapefile (ZIP; 568 KB) | Predicted African great ape density distribution geojson(ZIP; 2.55 MB) | 2015 | The layer is the first attempt to model continent-wide great ape density distribution from site-level estimates of African great ape abundance. Populations in Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, and South Sudan are excluded due to excessively high estimates. | Ordaz-Németh, I., Sop, T., Amarasekaran, B., Bachmann, M., Boesch, C., Brncic, T., ... & Kühl, H. S. (2021). Range‐wide indicators of African great ape density distribution. American journal of primatology, 83(12), e23338. |
| All African great apes | Compilation of all polygons from all sites where great apes population abundance was estimated. | IUCN SSC APES Database 2020 | |||
| Western chimpanzees | Western chimpanzee density distribution tif - original (ZIP; 3.33 MB) | Western chimpanzee density distribution geojson(ZIP; 851 KB) | 2015 | Range-wide predictions of chimpanzee density based on density distribution model. | Heinicke, S., Mundry, R., Boesch, C., Amarasekaran, B., Barrie, A., Brncic, T., ... & Kühl, H. S. (2019). Advancing conservation planning for western chimpanzees using IUCN SSC APES—the case of a taxon-specific database. Environmental Research Letters, 14(6), 064001. |