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| Title |
Declining Orangutan Encounter Rates from Wallace to the Present Suggest the Species Was Once More Abundant
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2010
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0012042 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Erik Meijaard, Alan Welsh, Marc Ancrenaz, Serge Wich, Vincent Nijman, Andrew J. Marshall |
| Abstract |
Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) currently occur at low densities and seeing a wild one is a rare event. Compared to present low encounter rates of orangutans, it is striking how many orangutan each day historic collectors like Alfred Russel Wallace were able to shoot continuously over weeks or even months. Does that indicate that some 150 years ago encounter rates with orangutans, or their densities, were higher than now? |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 3 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |
| Brunei Darussalam | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 146 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Romania | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 137 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 29 | 20% |
| Researcher | 25 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 21 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 7% |
| Other | 30 | 21% |
| Unknown | 15 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 70 | 48% |
| Environmental Science | 31 | 21% |
| Psychology | 5 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 3% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 3% |
| Other | 11 | 8% |
| Unknown | 19 | 13% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 November 2018.
All research outputs
#1,948,361
of 24,780,938 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#24,113
of 214,542 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,753
of 100,118 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#108
of 788 outputs
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