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Pintea, Lilian.

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Applying remote sensing and GIS for chimpanzee habitat change detection, behaviour and conservation.

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Title/Author:	Applying remote sensing and GIS for chimpanzee habitat change detection, behaviour and conservation./
Author:	Pintea, Lilian.
Description:	128 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Anne E. Pusey.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-03B.
Subject:	Biology, Ecology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3259227

Applying remote sensing and GIS for chimpanzee habitat change detection, behaviour and conservation.
Pintea, Lilian.

Applying remote sensing and GIS for chimpanzee habitat change detection, behaviour and conservation. - 128 p.

Adviser: Anne E. Pusey.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2007.

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), our closest living relatives, are declining alarmingly in abundance and distribution all across Africa. Clearing of forests and woodlands has one of the most rapid and devastating impacts, leaving chimpanzees in isolated, small populations that face edge effects and elevated risk of extinction. Satellite imagery could be a powerful tool to map chimpanzee habitats and threats at the landscape scale even in the most remote, difficult to access areas. However, few applications exist to demonstrate how remote sensing methods can be used in Africa for chimpanzee research and conservation in practice. In chapter one, I investigate the use of Landsat MSS and ETM+ satellite imagery to monitor dry tropical forests and miombo woodlands change between 1972-1999 inside and outside Gombe National Park, Tanzania. I show that canopy cover increased in the northern and middle parts of the park but with severe canopy loss outside protected area. Deforestation has had unequal effects on the three chimpanzee communities inside the park. The Kasekela chimpanzees have been least affected by canopy loss outside the park. In contrast, the Mitumba and Kalande communities have likely lost key range areas. In chapter two, I use 25 years of data on Gombe chimpanzees to investigate to what extent vegetation variables detected from multi-temporal satellite images can be applied to understand changes in chimpanzee feeding and party size. NDVI positively correlated with the time chimpanzees spent feeding but had no affect on the average number of adult males in the party. Instead the number of males in the party increased with proximity to hostile neighboring communities. In chapter three, I use Landsat and SPOT satellite imagery as the basis for Threat Reduction Assessment to evaluate conservation outcomes of a ten year community based conservation project in Tanzania. The findings suggest that the remote sensing methods applied in this study could provide new exciting prospects for monitoring chimpanzee habitats, socioecological research and a baseline to measure our conservation success.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Applying remote sensing and GIS for chimpanzee habitat change detection, behaviour and conservation.
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