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Impending extinction crisis of the world’s primates: Why primates matter

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Estrada, Alejandro, Garber, Paul A., Rylands, Anthony B., Roos, Christian, Fernandez-Duque, Eduardo, Di Fiore, Anthony, Nekaris, K. Anne-Isola, Nijman, Vincent +23 more·2017·Science Advances

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Impending extinction of the world’s primates due to human activities; immediate global attention is needed to reverse the trend.

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  • Many species that are large, slow-growing, habitat specialist, or carnivorous - such as large cats, large sharks, primates, reef-building corals, and woody plants - are declining rapidly in, and being lost from, many places.

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Estrada, A., Garber, P. A., Rylands, A. B., Roos, C., Fernandez-Duque, E., Di Fiore, A., Nekaris, K. A.-I., Nijman, V., Heymann, E. W., Lambert, J. E., Rovero, F., Barelli, C., Setchell, J. M., Gillespie, T. R., Mittermeier, R. A., Arregoitia, L. V., de Guinea, M., Gouveia, S., Dobrovolski, R., Shanee, S., Shanee, N., Boyle, S. A., Fuentes, A., MacKinnon, K. C., Amato, K. R., Meyer, A. L. S., Wich, S., Sussman, R. W., Pan, R., Kone, I., & Li, B.
Affiliations
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (MX)
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
  • Conservation International (US)
  • German Primate Center (DE)
  • Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
  • Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78705, USA.
  • Oxford Brookes University (GB)
  • University of Colorado Boulder (US)
  • Museo delle Scienze (IT)
  • Durham University (GB)
  • Emory University (US)
  • Naturhistorisches Museum Bern, Bernastrasse 15, CH-3005 Bern, Switzerland.
  • Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, U.K.
  • Universidade Federal de Sergipe (BR)
  • Universidade Federal da Bahia (BR)
  • Neotropical Primate Conservation, 23 Portland Road, Manchester M32 0PH, U.K.
  • Rhodes College (US)
  • Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
  • Saint Louis University (US)
  • Northwestern University (US)
  • Universidade Federal do Paraná (BR)
  • Liverpool John Moores University (GB)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
  • The University of Western Australia (AU)
  • Centre Suisse des Recherches Scientifiques, Université de Cocody, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
Corresponding author
  • Estrada, Alejandro
  • Garber, Paul A.
Venue
Science Advances
Published
2017-01-06
Volume
3
Issue
1
Pages
e1600946-e1600946
ISSN
2375-2548 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2581828022
Cited by
1,466
References
190
Citations by year
2026: 103 · 2025: 130 · 2024: 150 · 2023: 224 · 2022: 195 · 2021: 157 · 2020: 204 · 2019: 142 · 2018: 109 · 2017: 50
FWCI
21.39
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc
Locations
  • Science Advances (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Liverpool John Moores University (acceptedVersion)
  • Durham Research Online (Durham University) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
  • UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • Durham Research Online (Durham University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • Florence Research (University of Florence) (submittedVersion)
  • Radar (Oxford Brookes University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • CNPq (ID0EGCFM13839, 476528/2013-5)
  • CAPES, FAPESB, CNPq (ID0EHIFM13840, 461665/2014-0)
  • PRODOC/UFBA (ID0E2MFM13841, 5849/2013)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education
Keywords
primate extinction, primate conservation, habitat loss, bushmeat hunting, illegal wildlife trade, climate change, emerging infectious diseases, human evolution, tropical biodiversity, forest regeneration, anthropogenic pressure, Neotropical region, Madagascar, Africa, Asia
MeSH terms
Animals, Cercopithecidae, Ecosystem, Extinction, Biological

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