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Available African great ape layers
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African great apes excluding bonobos and Grauer's gorillas
Predicted African great ape density distribution shapefile Predicted African great ape density distribution geojson 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 Western chimpanzee density distribution geojson 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.
All African great apes
SEC for great apes tif - original SEC for great apes geojson 2000s
Predicted distribution of suitable environmental conditions (SEC) for eight African great ape taxa for the 2000s.
Junker, J., Blake, S., Boesch, C., Campbell, G., Toit, L. D., Duvall, C., ... & Kuehl, H. S. (2012). Recent decline in suitable environmental conditions for A frican great apes. Diversity and Distributions, 18(11), 1077-1091.