Based on
a long term demographic monitoring of gorilla populations in the Republic of Congo i) we revealed a demographic crash due to an Ebola outbreak
ii) we investigated the recovery capacity of gorilla populations subsequently to this outbreak, iii) we showed how Ebola disease contributes to fragmentation of gorilla populations due to the spatially heterogeneous
impact of its outbreaks.
Demographic crashes due to emerging diseases such as Ebola are discrete events rarely observed in wild populations because they require long term monitoring.
The demographic structure of populations (i.e., age-sex and group structure) can be useful indicators of a possible occurrence of recent Ebola outbreaks in populations without known history
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