Designing the Masoala National Park in Madagascar based on biological and socioeconomic data

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1055-1068

  Kremen, Claire ^a,c   Razafimahatratra, Vincent ^b   Guillery, R Philip ^c   Rakotomalala, Jocelyn ^d   Weiss, Andrew ^a   Ratsisompatrarivo, Jean Solo ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Centre de recherche pour le développement   (Madagascar)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^d CARE International Madagascar   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; RESERVE DESIGN;

MASOALA;

EID: 0032826876     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98374.x     Document Type: Article

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