Ecological, behavioral, and life-history correlates of mammal extinctions in West Africa

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 733-743

  Brashares, Justin S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CONSERVATION; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION RISK; LIFE HISTORY; MAMMAL;

GHANA;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037566215     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01592.x     Document Type: Article

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