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Charisma counts: Focus on great apes creates glaring research gaps in tropical Africa and Asia
2016-02-02 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] ANN ARBOR—Large national parks that are home to gorillas, chimpanzees and other great apes are focal points for much of the field research conducted in tropical Africa and Asia, resulting in crucial knowledge gaps and a biased view of broader conservation needs in those regions. Those are key findings from a new study by University of Michigan anthropologist Andrew Marshall and several colleagues. They used Google Scholar to determine what effect the presence of great apes ha…
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