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25. Kühl, H.S., Burghardt, T. (2013) Animal Biometrics: Profiling phenotypic appearance. Trends in Ecology and Evolution DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2013.02.013 [pdf]

24. Calvignac-Spencer, S., Merkel, K., Kutzner, N., Kühl, H., Boesch, C., Kappeler, P.M., Metzger, S., Schubert, G., Leendertz, F. (2013) Carrion fly-derived DNA as a tool for comprehensive and cost-effective assessment of mammalian biodiversity. Molecular Ecology 22, 915–924. [pdf]

23. Junker, J., Blake, S., Boesch, C., Campbell, G., du Toit, L., Duvall, C., Ekobo, A., Etoga, G., Galat-Luong, A., Gamys, J., Ganas-Swaray, J., Gatti, S., Ghiurghi, A., Granier, N., Hart, J., Head, J., Herbinger, I., Hicks, T.C., Huijbregts, B., Imong, I.S., Kuempel, N., Lahm, S., Lindsell, J., Maisels, F., McLennan, M., Martinez, L., Morgan, B., Morgan, D.,Mulindahabi, F., Mundry, R., N’Goran, P.K., Normand, E., Ntongho, A., Okon, D.T., Petre, C.A., Plumptre, A., Rainey, H., Regnaut, S., Sanz, C., Stokes, E., Tondossama, A.,Tranquilli, S., Sunderland-Groves, J., Walsh, P., Warren, Y., Williamson, E.A., Kuehl, H.S. (2012) Recent decline in suitable environmental conditions for African great apes. Diversity and Distribution. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12005 [pdf] [Supplementary Material Part 1] [Supplementary Material Part 2]

22. Kühl, H.S., N'Guessan, A., Riedel, J., Metzger, S., Deschner, T. (2012) The Effect of Climate Fluctuation on Chimpanzee Birth Sex Ratio. PLoS ONE 7(4): e35610. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035610 [pdf]

21. N'Goran, P.K., Boesch, C., Mundry, R., N'Goran, E. K., Herbinger, I., Yapi, F.A., Kühl, H.S. (2012) Hunting, law enforcement and African primate conservation. Conservation Biology. DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01821. [pdf] [Supplementary Material Part 1] [Supplementary Material Part 2]

20. Wich, S.A., Fredriksson, G.M., Usher, G., Peters, H.H., Priatna, D., Basalamah, F., Susanto, W., Kühl, H. (2011) Hunting of Sumatran orang-utans and its importance in determining distribution and density, Biological Conservation, in press doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.12.006. [pdf] [Supplementary Material]

19. Tranquilli, S., Abedi-Lartey, M., Amsini, F., Arranz, L., Asamoah, A., Babafemi, O., Barakabuye, N., Campbell, G., Chancellor, R., Davenport, T.R.B., Dunn, A., Dupain, J., Ellis, C., Etoga, G., Furuichi, T., Gatti, S., Ghiurghi, A., Greengrass, E., Hashimoto, C., Hart, J., Herbinger, I., Hicks, T.C., Holbech, L.H., Huijbregts, B., Imong, I., Kumpel, N., Maisels, F., Marshall, P., Nixon, S., Normand, E., Nziguyimpa, L., Nzooh-Dogmo, Z., Tiku Okon, D., Plumptre, A., Rundus, A. Sunderland-Groves, J., Todd, A., Warren, Y., Mundry, R., Boesch, C., Kuehl, H. (2011) Lack of Conservation effort rapidly increases African great ape extinction risk. Conservation Letters doi: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2011.00211.x [pdf] [Supplementary Material]

18. Kouakou, C.Y., Boesch, C., Kuehl, H.S. (2011) Identifying hotspots of chimpanzee group activity from transect surveys in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire. Journal of Tropical Ecology 27: 621-630. [pdf]

17. Hoppe-Dominik, B., Kühl, H.S., Radl, G., Fischer, F. (2011) Long-term monitoring of large rainforest mammals in the Biosphere Reserve of Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire. African Journal of Ecology doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2028.2011.01277.x [pdf]

16. Campbell, G., Kuehl, H., Diarrassouba, A., N'Goran, P. K. and C. Boesch (2011) Long-term research sites as refugia for threatened and over-harvested species. Biology Letters doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0155 [pdf] [Supplementary Material]

15. Spehar, N.S., Mathewson, P.D., Nuzuar, Wich, S.A., Marshall, A.J., Kühl, H., Nardiyono, Meijaard, E. (2010) Estimating Orangutan densities using the standing crop and marked nest count methods: Lessons learned for conservation. Biotropica 1-10. [pdf]

14. Arandjelovic M., Head, J.., Kuehl, H., Boesch, C., Robbins, M.M., Maisels, F., Vigilant, L. Effective non-invasive genetic monitoring of multiple wild western gorilla groups. Biological Conservation 143: 1780–1791. [pdf]

13. Rabanal, L., Kuehl, H.S. Mundry, R., Robbins, M., Boesch, C. (2010) Oil prospecting and its impact on large rainforest mammals in Loango National Park, Gabon. Biological Conservation. 143: 1017-1024. [pdf]

12. Junglen S., Kurth A., Ellerbrok H., Pauli G., Nunn C., Kuehl H., Leendertz F. H. (2009) Examining landscape factors influencing relative distribution of mosquito genera and frequency of virus infection. EcoHealth 6: 239-249. [pdf]

11. Kouakou, Y.C., Boesch, C., Kuehl, H. S.: (2009) Estimating chimpanzee population size with nest counts: Validating methods in Taï National Park, American Journal of Primatology 71: 447-457. [pdf]

10. Kuehl, H. S.; Nzeingui, C.; Le Duc Yeno, S.; Huijbregts, B.; Boesch, C.; Walsh, P. D. (2009): Discriminating between village and commercial hunting of apes. Biological Conservation 142: 1500-1506. [pdf]

9. Campbell, G., Kuehl, H.S., Ngoran, P, Boesch, C. (2008) Alarming decline of West African chimpanzees in Côte d’Ivoire. Current Biology 18: 904-905. [pdf]

8. Kuehl, H.S, Maisels, F., Williamson, L., Ancrenaz, M. (2008) Best Practice Guidelines for Surveys and Monitoring of Great Ape Populations. Occasional papers of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. [pdf in English | pdf in French]

7. Todd, A.F., Kuehl, H.S, Cipolletta, C., Walsh, P.D. (2008) Using dung to estimate gorilla density: Modeling dung production rate. International Journal of Primatology 29: 549-563. [pdf]

6. Kuehl, H.S., Elzner, C., Moebius, Y., Boesch, C., Walsh, P.D. (2008) The price of play: self-organized infant mortality cycles in chimpanzees. PloS ONE 3: e2440 [pdf]

5. Köndgen, S., Kühl, H.S., Ngoran, P., Walsh, P.D., Schenk, S., Ernst, N., Biek, R., Formenty, P., Mätz-Rensing, K., Schweiger, B., Junglen, S., Ellerbrok, H., Nitsche, A.,Briese, T.,Lipkin, WI., Pauli, G.,Boesch, C., Leendertz FH (2008) Pandemic human viruses cause decline of endangered great apes. Current Biology 18: 260-264. [pdf | Supplemental data]

4. Kuehl, H.S, Todd, A., Boesch, C., and Walsh, P.D. (2007) Manipulating dung decay time for efficient large-mammal density estimation: Gorillas and dung height. Ecological Applications 17: 2403–2414. [pdf]

3. Kuehl, H.S, Williamson, L, Sanz, C, Morgan, D., Boesch, C. (2007) Launch of A.P.E.S. database. Gorilla Journal 34: 20-21. [pdf]

2. Wimmer, R., Kühl, H., Röttger. S., Schempp, W. (2002) Comparative mapping of CDY and DAZ in higher primates. Cytogenetic and Genome Research 96: 287–289 [pdf]

1. Kühl, H., Röttger, S., Heilbronner, H., Enders, H, Schempp, W. (2001) Loss of the Y chromosomal PAR2-region in four familial cases of satellited Y chromosomes (Yqs). Chromosome Research 9: 215-222. [pdf]

Vaidyanathan, G. (2011) The cultured chimpanzees. Do chimpanzees have traditions? As wild populations dwindle, researchers are racing to find out. Nature 476: 266-269. [pdf]