Extent of nontimber resource extraction in tropical forests: Accessibility to game vertebrates by hunters in the Amazon basin

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 521-535

  Peres, Carlos A ^a   Lake, Iain R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HARVESTING; HUNTING; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; TROPICAL FOREST; VERTEBRATE;

BRAZIL;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0041739259     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01413.x     Document Type: Article

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