Genetic and demographic threats to the black rhinoceros population in the Ngorongoro Crater;Amenazas geneticas y demograficas de la poblacion de rinocerontes negros en el Crater Ngorongoro

Conservation Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1107-1114

  Moehlman, Patricia D ^a  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DICEROS BICORNIS; RHINOCEROS;

BLACK RHINOCEROS; EXTINCTION RISK;

TANZANIA, NGORONGORO CRATER;

EID: 0030479046     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1996.10041107.x     Document Type: Article

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