Effects of habituation, research and ecotourism on faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in wild western lowland gorillas: Implications for conservation management

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68081766:_____/14:00426976 RIV/00216224:14310/14:00093982

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2014.02.014" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2014.02.014</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2014.02.014" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.biocon.2014.02.014</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Effects of habituation, research and ecotourism on faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in wild western lowland gorillas: Implications for conservation management

Original language description

Wildlife tourism is proliferating worldwide and has the potential to raise revenue for conservation as well as public awareness of conservation issues. However, concerns are growing about the potentially negative influence of such tourism on the wildlifeinvolved. We investigate the effects of habituation, ecotourism and research activities on levels of faecal glucocorticoid metabolites (FGCMs), a proxy for physiological stress, in wild western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the Central African Republic. We compare FGCMs in three human-contacted groups with those in unhabituated gorillas. We also explore how human-gorilla contact influences FGCMs of a gorilla group undergoing habituation and investigate how measures of general human-gorilla contact, tourism and human proximity influence FGCMs in recently and long-term habituated groups. Two of the three human-contacted groups had higher levels of FGCMs than unhabituated gorillas. The group undergoing habituation had the

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

GJ - Diseases and animal vermin, veterinary medicine

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Biological conservation

ISSN

0006-3207

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

172

Issue of the periodical within the volume

APR 2014

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

72-79

UT code for WoS article

000336337800009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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