Ecology: Conservation priorities for Russian mammals

Science

Volumn 297, Issue 5584, 2002, Pages 1123-

  Polishchuk, Leonard V ^a,b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; MAMMAL;

BIODIVERSITY; BODY MASS; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FERTILITY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAMMAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LITTER SIZE; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MAMMALS; RUSSIA;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037119599     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1072836     Document Type: Short Survey

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16. I thank A. Ghilarov, N. G. Hairston Jr., I. Hanski, A. Kondrashov, S. Pimm, Yu. Romanovsky, V. Romanovsky, V. Tseitlin, J. Vijverberg, D. Voronov, V. Burmensky, and two anonymous reviewers. Supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant 01-04-48384) and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.