Reintroducing antelopes into arid areas: Lessons learnt from the oryx in Saudi Arabia

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 326, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Mésochina, Pascal ^a   Bedin, Eric ^a   Ostrowski, Stéphane ^a  

^a NWRC/NCWCD   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Antelopes; Arabian oryx; Desert; Oryx leucoryx; Reintroduction success

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; REINTRODUCTION; UNGULATE;

ANIMAL HUNTING; ANTELOPE; ARTICLE; DESERT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION SIZE; SAUDI ARABIA; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES HABITAT; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

SAUDI ARABIA;

ANIMALIA; ORYX; ORYX LEUCORYX;

EID: 0141717792     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1631-0691(03)00053-2     Document Type: Article

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