Protecting an endangered species while harvesting its prey in a general equilibrium ecosystem model

Land Economics

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 160-180

  Finnoff, David ^a   Tschirhart, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ALASKA;

EUMETOPIAS JUBATUS; OTARIIDAE; PANTHERA LEO;

EID: 0242282720     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3146865     Document Type: Article

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