Undesirable evolutionary consequences of trophy hunting

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6967, 2003, Pages 655-658

  Coltman, David W ^a   O'Donoghue, Paul ^a   Jorgenson, Jon T ^b   Hogg, John T ^c   Strobeck, Curtis ^d   Festa Bianchet, Marco ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Alberta Sustainable Resource Development   (Canada)

^c Montana Conservation Science Institute   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

HUNTING;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

EVOLUTION; HUNTING; PHENOTYPE; UNGULATE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HARVEST; HORN; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SHEEP; TECHNIQUE; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ALBERTA; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HOBBIES; HORNS; MALE; PEDIGREE; RUMINANTS; SPORTS;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS; UNGULATA;

EID: 0346258015     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02177     Document Type: Article

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