Ecological interactions, social organization, and extinction risk in African wild dogs

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1172-1182

  Vucetich, John A ^a   Creel, Scott ^b  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; CONSERVATION; EXTINCTION RISK; POPULATION DENSITY;

TANZANIA;

LYCAON PICTUS;

EID: 0032826879     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98366.x     Document Type: Article

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