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Edge effects of oil palm plantations on tropical anuran communities in Borneo by Scriven, Sarah A., Gillespie, Graeme R., Laimun, Samsir, Goossens, Benoît

“…The expansion of industrial agriculture (oil palm) has significantly reduced lowland tropical diversity through direct loss or alteration of habitat, leading…”
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Genetic analyses favour an ancient and natural origin of elephants on Borneo by Sharma, Reeta, Goossens, Benoit, Heller, Rasmus, Rasteiro, Rita, Othman, Nurzhafarina, Bruford, Michael W., Chikhi, Lounès

“…The origin of the elephant on the island of Borneo remains elusive. Research has suggested two alternative hypotheses: the Bornean elephant stems either from a…”
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Spatial and temporal behavioural responses of wild cattle to tropical forest degradation by Gardner, Penny C, Goossens, Benoît, Goon Ee Wern, Jocelyn, Kretzschmar, Petra, Bohm, Torsten, Vaughan, Ian P

“…Identifying the consequences of tropical forest degradation is essential to mitigate its effects upon forest fauna. Large forest-dwelling mammals are often…”
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Genetic signature of anthropogenic population collapse in orang-utans by Goossens, Benoît, Chikhi, Lounès, Ancrenaz, Marc, Lackman-Ancrenaz, Isabelle, Andau, Patrick, Bruford, Michael W

“…Great ape populations are undergoing a dramatic decline, which is predicted to result in their extinction in the wild from entire regions in the near future…”
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Using natural marks in a spatially explicit capture-recapture framework to estimate preliminary population density of cryptic endangered wild cattle in Borneo by Gardner, Penny C., Vaughan, Ian P., Liew, Lucy P., Goossens, Benoît

“…The behaviour of cryptic tropical forest ungulates that are not identifiable from unique coat colour and patterns often impedes detectability and…”
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Genetic Viability and Population History of the Giant Panda, Putting an End to the "Evolutionary Dead End"? by Zhang, Baowei, Li, Ming, Zhang, Zejun, Goossens, Benoît, Zhu, Lifeng, Zhang, Shanning, Hu, Jinchu, Bruford, Michael W., Wei, Fuwen

“…The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is currently threatened by habitat loss, fragmentation, and human persecution. Its dietary specialization, habitat…”
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Hunting pressure is a key contributor to the impending extinction of Bornean wild cattle by Gardner, PC, Goossens, B, Bakar, SBA, Bruford, MW

“…Widespread and unregulated hunting of ungulates in Southeast Asia is resulting in population declines and localised extinctions. Increased access to previously…”
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Herd demography, sexual segregation and the effects of forest management on Bornean banteng Bos javanicus lowi in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo by Journeaux, KL, Gardner, PC, Lim, HY, Wern, JGE, Goossens, B

“…Between 1973 and 2010, 39.5% of Sabah’s (Malaysian Borneo) natural forest cover was lost to deforestation and conversion to agriculture, therefore the…”
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Faecal Particle Size in Free-Ranging Proboscis Monkeys, Nasalis larvatus: Variation between Seasons by Thiry, Valentine, Clauss, Marcus, Stark, Danica J, Beudels-Jamar, Roseline C, Vercauteren Drubbel, Régine, Nathan, Senthilvel K S S, Goossens, Benoît, Vercauteren, Martine

“…Reducing the size of food particles is crucial for herbivores. Seasonal dietary changes are known to influence animals' chewing efficiency. Proboscis monkeys…”
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Acquisition of fission-fusion social organization in a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) community released into the wild by Le Hellaye, Yann, Goossens, Benoît, Jamart, Aliette, Curtis, Deborah J

“…The social aspects of primate reintroduction are of primary importance to the success of release programs and need to be assessed through the study of changes…”
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Can Riparian Forest Buffers Increase Yields From Oil Palm Plantations? by Horton, Alexander J., Lazarus, Eli D., Hales, Tristram C., Constantine, José Antonio, Bruford, Michael W., Goossens, Benoît

“…Forests on tropical floodplains across Southeast Asia are being converted to oil palm plantations. Preserving natural riparian forest corridors along rivers…”
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Male bimaturism and reproductive success in Sumatran orang-utans by Utami, S. S.

“…Although orang-utans live solitary lives most of the time, they have a complex social structure and are characterized by extreme sexual dimorphism. However,…”
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Mapped aboveground carbon stocks to advance forest conservation and recovery in Malaysian Borneo by Asner, Gregory P., Brodrick, Philip G., Philipson, Christopher, Vaughn, Nicolas R., Martin, Roberta E., Knapp, David E., Heckler, Joseph, Evans, Luke J., Jucker, Tommaso, Goossens, Benoit, Stark, Danica J., Reynolds, Glen, Ong, Robert, Renneboog, Nathan, Kugan, Fred, Coomes, David A.

“…Forest carbon stocks in rapidly developing tropical regions are highly heterogeneous, which challenges efforts to develop spatially-explicit conservation…”
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Spatio-temporal ecology of sympatric felids on Borneo. Evidence for resource partitioning? by Hearn, Andrew J, Cushman, Samuel A, Ross, Joanna, Goossens, Benoit, Hunter, Luke T B, Macdonald, David W

“…Niche differentiation, the partitioning of resources along one or more axes of a species' niche hyper-volume, is widely recognised as an important mechanism…”
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The critical role of natural forest as refugium for generalist species in oil palm-dominated landscapes by Guerrero-Sanchez, Sergio, Goossens, Benoit, Saimin, Silvester, Orozco-terWengel, Pablo

“…In Borneo, oil palm plantations have replaced much of natural resources, where generalist species tend to be the principal beneficiaries, due to the abundant…”
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The confounding effects of population structure, genetic diversity and the sampling scheme on the detection and quantification of population size changes by Chikhi, Lounès, Sousa, Vitor C, Luisi, Pierre, Goossens, Benoit, Beaumont, Mark A

“…The idea that molecular data should contain information on the recent evolutionary history of populations is rather old. However, much of the work carried out…”
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Genomic insights into the conservation status of the world’s last remaining Sumatran rhinoceros populations by von Seth, Johanna, Dussex, Nicolas, Díez-del-Molino, David, van der Valk, Tom, Kutschera, Verena E., Kierczak, Marcin, Steiner, Cynthia C., Liu, Shanlin, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S., Prost, Stefan, Guschanski, Katerina, Nathan, Senthilvel K. S. S., Brace, Selina, Chan, Yvonne L., Wheat, Christopher W., Skoglund, Pontus, Ryder, Oliver A., Goossens, Benoit, Götherström, Anders, Dalén, Love

“…Small populations are often exposed to high inbreeding and mutational load that can increase the risk of extinction. The Sumatran rhinoceros was widespread in…”
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Synergies for improving oil palm production and forest conservation in floodplain landscapes by Abram, Nicola K, Xofis, Panteleimon, Tzanopoulos, Joseph, MacMillan, Douglas C, Ancrenaz, Marc, Chung, Robin, Peter, Lucy, Ong, Robert, Lackman, Isabelle, Goossens, Benoit, Ambu, Laurentius, Knight, Andrew T

“…Lowland tropical forests are increasingly threatened with conversion to oil palm as global demand and high profit drives crop expansion throughout the world's…”
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Natural and anthropogenic drivers of Bornean elephant movement strategies by Evans, Luke J., Goossens, Benoit, Davies, Andrew B., Reynolds, Glen, Asner, Gregory P.

“…Endangered Bornean elephants are severely threatened by ongoing habitat transformation and increasing levels of human-elephant conflict. Understanding how…”
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Extra-Pair Paternity in the Monogamous Alpine Marmot Revealed by Nuclear DNA Microsatellite Analysis by Goossens, Benoît, Laurent Graziani, Waits, Lisette P., Etienne Farand, Séverine Magnolon, Jacques Coulon, Marie-Claude Bel, Taberlet, Pierre, Allainé, Dominique

“…The genetic parentage and pedigrees of 35 litters from 12 family groups of monogamous Alpine marmot (Marmota marmota) in the French Alps were analyzed using…”
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