Dietary Variability Among Mountain Gorilla Groups Across Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.

ABSTRACT: Gaining a more complete understanding of a species' dietary variability is crucial to properly discern distribution, population growth trends, and conservation actions. Endangered mountain gorillas live in topographically complex forests covering a wide elevational range and diverse habitat matrices. Since 1967, mountain gorillas have been studied at high elevations in the southwest of the Volcanoes National Park (VNP) in Rwanda, where groups use different compositions of habitats and have been growing at higher rates than groups in the northeast VNP region, which is characterized by lower elevations. Building on previous efforts, we describe dietary variability among VNP mountain gorilla groups by integrating data from groups ranging in the northeast VNP. We assessed and compared nutritio

SUBMITTER: Ihimbazwe H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12081832 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature