Seasonal incidence, sex-ratio, and population cohorts of hinge-back tortoises (genus Kinixys) in the wild and in bush-meat markets of the Niger Delta, southern Nigeria: Are human predation effects random?

Revue d'Ecologie (La Terre et la Vie)

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 243-248

  Luiselli, Luca ^a   Politano, Edoardo ^b   Akani, Godfrey C ^c  

^a FIZV   (Italy)

^b Environmental Studies Centre Demetra   (Italy)

^c RIVERS STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUNTING; PREDATION; REPTILE; SEX RATIO;

NIGERIA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; EROSA; KINIXYS; KINIXYS BELLIANA; KINIXYS EROSA; KINIXYS HOMEANA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINIDAE;

EID: 0038300897     PISSN: 02497395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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