A forager-resource population ecology model and implications for indigenous conservation

Conservation Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1354-1364

  Winterhalder, Bruce ^a   Lu, Flora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DORAGING THEORY; MODELLING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ECOLOGY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

EID: 0031458492     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1997.95184.x     Document Type: Article

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