Threats to Brazilian crocodilian populations

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Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 275-284

  Brazaitis, P ^a   Rebêlo, George H ^b   Yamashita, Carlos ^c   Odierna, Elizabeth A ^d   Watanabe, Myrna E ^e  

^a Central Park Wildlife Center   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c Montefiore Medical Center ^*  (Brazil)

^d MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ANIMALIA; CAIMAN; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); MELANOSUCHUS NIGER; CAIMAN CROCODILUS; CAIMAN LATIROSTRIS; CAIMAN NIGER; CAIMAN YACARE; CROCODILUS;

CAIMAN; CROCODILIAN; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION; HABITAT DESTRUCTION; HEAVY METAL; HUNTING PRESSURE; MINING; RESOURCE EXTRACTION; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0030302109     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0030605300021773     Document Type: Article

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