What it will take to monitor forest elephant populations

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1194-1202

  Walsh, Peter D ^a   White, Lee J T ^a  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ELEPHANT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MONITORING;

EID: 0032853865     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98148.x     Document Type: Article

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