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Retraction Note: Great ape abundance and per capita carbon storage in their habitats

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The Original Article was published on 07 November 2024

Retraction Note: BMC Ecology and Evolution 24, 137 (2024)

https://doiorg.publicaciones.saludcastillayleon.es/10.1186/s12862-024-02327-x


The authors have retracted this article because they did not receive appropriate permissions to use the two spatial layers extracted from the IUCN SSC A.P.E.S. database.

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  1. Prince Degny Vale, Ernest Dadis Bush Fotsing and Samedi Jean Pierre Mucyo contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé, Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire

    Prince Degny Vale

  2. Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Cote d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

    Prince Degny Vale & Inza Kone

  3. University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

    Ernest Dadis Bush Fotsing

  4. Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Fribourg, Switzerland

    Ernest Dadis Bush Fotsing

  5. Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, Musanze, Rwanda

    Samedi Jean Pierre Mucyo & Yntze van der Hoek

  6. Taraba State University, Jalingo, Nigeria

    Williams Danladi Abwage

  7. Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon

    Serge Ely Dibakou

  8. World Wide Fund for Nature, Yaoundé, Cameroon

    Kouame Paul N’Goran

  9. Senckenberg Museum for Natural History Görlitz, Senckenberg, Germany

    Tenekwetche Sop, Lars Kulik & Hjalmar Kuehl

  10. Re:Wild, Austin, USA

    Tenekwetche Sop

  11. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany

    Stefanie Heinicke

  12. Université Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

    Inza Kone

  13. International Institute Zittau, Technische Universit Dresdenät, Zittau, Germany

    Hjalmar Kuehl

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Vale, P.D., Fotsing, E.D.B., Mucyo, S.J.P. et al. Retraction Note: Great ape abundance and per capita carbon storage in their habitats. BMC Ecol Evo 25, 29 (2025). https://doiorg.publicaciones.saludcastillayleon.es/10.1186/s12862-025-02371-1

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