{"id":337867,"date":"2010-02-18T14:42:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T19:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3131"},"modified":"2010-02-18T14:42:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T19:42:22","slug":"threat-to-monkey-numbers-from-forest-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/337867","title":{"rendered":"Threat to Monkey Numbers from Forest Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/02\/100218102456.htm\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/images\/2010\/02\/100218102456.jpg\" width=\"266\" align=\"right\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/02\/100218102456.htm\" >Science Daily<\/a>: Monkey populations in threatened <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Forest_biome\">forests<\/a> are far more sensitive to damage to their habitat than previously thought, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>An analysis of monkeys living in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Protected_areas_of_Tanzania\">Tanzania&#8217;s<\/a> Udzungwa Mountains suggests that the impact of external factors, such as human activity, on species numbers is felt in forests as large as 40 square kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers also found that the health of monkey populations is closely related to the type of habitat found between forest fragments, rather than the distance that separates them.<\/p>\n<p>The findings have broader implications for conservationists as the number of monkeys and the variety of species is a visible indicator of the underlying health of their habitat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/02\/100218102456.htm\" >Read more &gt;&gt; <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3131&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3131\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Daily: Monkey populations in threatened forests are far more sensitive to damage to their habitat than previously thought, according to new research. An analysis of monkeys living in Tanzania&#8217;s Udzungwa Mountains suggests that the impact of external factors, such as human activity, on species numbers is felt in forests as large as 40 square [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}