| Species
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Shapefile
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GeoJSON
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Year
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Description
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Source
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| African great apes excluding bonobos and Grauer's gorillas
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Predicted African great ape density distribution shapefile (ZIP; 568 KB)
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Predicted African great ape density distribution geojson(ZIP; 2.55 MB)
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2015
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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.
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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.
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| All African great apes
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Compilation of all polygons from all sites where great apes population abundance was estimated.
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IUCN SSC APES Database 2020
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| Western chimpanzees
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Western chimpanzee density distribution tif - original (ZIP; 3.33 MB)
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Western chimpanzee density distribution geojson(ZIP; 851 KB)
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2015
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Range-wide predictions of chimpanzee density based on density distribution model.
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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.
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| All African great apes
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SEC for great apes tif - original (ZIP; 1,020 KB)
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SEC for great apes geojson(ZIP; 547 KB)
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2000s
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Predicted distribution of suitable environmental conditions (SEC) for eight African great ape taxa for the 2000s.
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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.
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