Bringing home the biggest bacon: A cross-site analysis of the structure of hunter-kill profiles in Neotropical forests

Biological Conservation

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 415-425

  Jerozolimski, Adriano ^a   Peres, Carlos A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bushmeat; Exploitation; Hunting; Large vertebrates; Neotropical forests; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HUNTING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAMMAL; NEOTROPICAL REGION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037410086     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00310-5     Document Type: Article

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